Because you're a journalist. There are three things every pro journalist, no matter what path they take, ends up writing about, one way or another: Sex, taxes and sports.
Howard Cosell (on S two LLs) was a lot of things, but one thing he was was a journalist. He always said sports coverage should be done by journalists. I agree and that is why I welcome your coverage of this.
to me, this is not just a story about sports but about how the right bends us culture towards fascism. they are ringing the bell early and often so that their side as well as ours develops a Pavlovian response to something that should be such a non-issue.
Sports provide stories. That's why they're interesting. Sports, and public schools, are among the only remaining places where people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together. Not even the military, not even in line at the DMV.
So you get all these stories, involving all these wildly different people converging on a profoundly unserious goal taken incredibly seriously; it's theater.
Of course you find compelling material there. That's what it's for.
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Citation needed about the military. Because in my quarter of a century of service, the military is absolutely integrated more than schools. In fact, people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together in the military every single day.
How the hell did I become a sports columnist?
Intersectionality, natch!
Skill and daring, with a spoonful of luck?
Lack of attention to detail.
There you were, just being your own true self, not paying attention to the machinations of the universe when BAM! Entropy strikes.
Two words: Caitlin Clark.
Ok,,,not really, i know. I just like to see your eyes glaze over at the mention. :)
When you started coining brilliance like "this jingo isn't going to ism itself"
Woke Renaissance Woman.
You start out by wanting to be a journalist but no one will hire you, based on samples of your work. Then you drop to your knees...
Because you're a journalist. There are three things every pro journalist, no matter what path they take, ends up writing about, one way or another: Sex, taxes and sports.
Howard Cosell (on S two LLs) was a lot of things, but one thing he was was a journalist. He always said sports coverage should be done by journalists. I agree and that is why I welcome your coverage of this.
Nobody else was willing to do it?
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I can't think of anyone who is more adept at describing my own love for the sportsballs and lacrosse pucks and hockey brooms and so on.
Sports provide stories. That's why they're interesting. Sports, and public schools, are among the only remaining places where people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together. Not even the military, not even in line at the DMV.
So you get all these stories, involving all these wildly different people converging on a profoundly unserious goal taken incredibly seriously; it's theater.
Of course you find compelling material there. That's what it's for.
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People of all stripes mix in the military also, too
Just like the post office
тАЬThat's why they're interesting. Sports, and public schools, are among the only remaining places where people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together. Not even the military, not even in line at the DMV.тАЭ
Citation needed about the military. Because in my quarter of a century of service, the military is absolutely integrated more than schools. In fact, people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together in the military every single day.
Agreed, though women still have a hard time in the military.
You are a snark collaborator and your prose is primo!
The same way I started writing about movies? I appreciate the sports coverage, because it's about much more. Thank you for doing it!
You pulled yourself up by your bootstraps?