Some stuff I’ve consumed and items of note… The producer of the Dan Le Batard Show, Mike Ryan, opened up about his struggles with mental health in conjunction with putting on a successful show. Some important discussions in here between members of the show and raw honesty. The hook
The awful feeling for the loss of life is compounded by bracing for the ensuing four years microcosmed in these two reactions.
American sports franchises are now in the private equity partnership, a few seem alarmed by this despite everything known about private equity.
Some stuff I’ve consumed and items of note…
Maybe the tactic of just exhausting everyone has worked.
Dr. King wrote, "All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality."
Some stuff I’ve consumed and items of note in the politics of sports this week… Antoine E. Davis’s followup to a prior piece on a fantasy football league among the incarcerated: “Marshall, the other co-commissioner, summed it up nicely. ‘Fantasy football takes our mind off the daily struggle
And that's probably all there is to the impetus of the team photo goof between Uecker and Bob Gibson there--guys being dudes. But it's also 1964.
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No moment solidified the real priorities of those not sifting through ash and Titanic deck feng shui than the Rams-Vikings pregame… festivities? The NFL has mastered gesturing vaguely at things that are actually killing people, and hoo boy did they cook up a pièce de résistance on Monday night.
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This is the P.O.S. (Politics of Sports) Blog, with posts by Tim Baffoe examining the intersection of sports and the real world. I used to get paid to write about sports, took a break for a few years, and recently felt like picking it up again. No real