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Basketball is a kids’ game. Kids play it, and kids are pretty good at it.”-Mike Krzyzewski The greatest active basketball coach is exactly right.  After all of the games he’s been able to watch, Coach K probably knows about as well as anybody the joy that comes from watching the game you love be re-embraced […]

Although we view the Olympics as a coming together of nations for spirited competition, there’s a lot of evidence that others have looked at the Olympics as validation for an ideology.  For example, Hitler wished to use the results of the 1936 Olympics as evidence that the Aryan race was superior to others, which explains […]

More than ever before, the 2005 World Series is not just a clash of two teams but a clash of opposing philosophies on the playoffs. You could say that this debate goes all the way back to the original Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, Plato and Aristotle. I’ve always enjoyed the fact that we have […]

The year is 2005, and reality television has finally gone too far.  After shows about flatulent fake fiancées, castaways driven to eating rats, and recipients of radical facial reconstructions, I think we’ve made it to a point where we all can agree we shouldn’t have reality TV interfering.  After toying with the very idea of love and […]

There’s almost nothing more exciting in the sports world than a buzzer-beating jump shot, a Hail Mary pass, or a last second wrist shot.  We all know that when time is running out in a close game, we may be in for something very special.  Knowing that the end of the game is near can […]

I took a golf class in college, and one of the course requirements was to purchase and study a textbook on the game of golf.  I’m sure it had a lot on golf’s history and some instruction for beginners, but all I remember is this nugget: the book claimed that what makes golf different from […]