The Psychedelia, Redemption of Baseball Iconoclast Dock Ellis
Though he was an accomplished all-star pitcher, Ellis had a reputation on and off the field as a shit-talker who thrived on the adversarial relationship between pitcher and batter. As a result, his...
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Last night riots broke out in Vancouver after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins. According to someone who knows, the (sporting) frustration that boiled over had been years in the...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky On The Cult Of American Sports
In this clip from the documentary Manufacturing Consent (1992), Noam Chomsky talks sports and the "indoctrination system" it encourages. It's an argument that, back in 2005, the Free Republic found...
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