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Catching Up Part Ii, Richard C. Crepeau
Catching Up Part Ii, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
Major League baseball once again found itself among the inhabitants of the obtuse and sinister, not to mention the silly. Baseball Commissioner, Rob Manfred, having spent much of the off-season seeking the destruction of large parts of the minor league baseball system, turned his attention to more important matters as mid-season approached.
Catching Up Part I, Richard C. Crepeau
Catching Up Part I, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
In this time of disruption in our lives and in the sports calendar, there are annoyances, irritations, and the occasional gift. The past few months were loaded with top-level sporting events, with some surprising developments, and with more than the usual quota of madness. So fasten your seat belt for an overlong and overblown two editions of Sport and Society.
Good News And Bad News, Richard C. Crepeau
Good News And Bad News, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
This weekend, there was some good news, and there was some bad news in sport, a high and low, and both of considerable significance. The good news came from hockey. The bad news, in some ways bigger than the good news, came from horse racing. Both cases involved one of the biggest names in each of the sports: Connor McDavid and Bob Baffert.
Super Madness, Richard C. Crepeau
Super Madness, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
A little over a month ago, the rocket scientists at the NCAA once again showed just how dense they can be. During the event known as March Madness, the NCAA, as it is prone to do, produced some madness of their own.
The Trans Issue, Richard C. Crepeau
The Trans Issue, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
The first time that I remember the issue of gender and sport being raised was sometime in the 1960s when charges surfaced at the Olympics concerning the East German women’s track and field team. Their success led some in the west, especially the Americans, to charge that some female athletes from East Germany and the Soviet Union were, in fact, males. For the most part, I dismissed these claims as the complaints of bad losers. Others treated the charges more seriously, and sex tests came to the European Games in 1966 and the Olympic Games in 1968.
March Madness With A Twist, Richard C. Crepeau
March Madness With A Twist, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
After a year with no “March Madness” that turned into one of the maddest years of our lifetime, the calendar has rolled through twelve months and the lure of television money has resurrected “March Madness.” Some things look very familiar.
Super Bowl Lv, Richard C. Crepeau
Super Bowl Lv, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
Super Bowl LV has come and gone and it will forever occupy a unique place in the History of the NFL. The game itself was a throwback to many earlier games that simply did not live up to the hype. What was billed as a great matchup that was likely to be won by whomever had the last possession of the game, turned out to be a lop-sided contest decided by halftime, or at the latest, the middle of the third quarter.
Henry Aaron, Richard C. Crepeau
Henry Aaron, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
I was looking at email late this morning when there was a small notice at the top right on the screen from AJC (the Atlanta Journal Constitution). At first the title of the message didn’t register with me as I saw it out of the corner of my eye. After several seconds it did register. The message was about Hank Aaron, and when I looked, I saw it was an announcement of the great man’s death. This was the third such notice of the death of a member of the Atlanta Braves family that I received in the past four …
Sport In The Middle Of Crisis, Richard C. Crepeau
Sport In The Middle Of Crisis, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
It has been two weeks since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, an event that has thrown American society into a state of shock and mourning, followed by protest, marches, and rioting. It has been over fifty years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the city of Memphis. That event also sent the country into a state of shock and mourning, with protest, marches, and rioting.
The Cult Of Number Oneness - More Strange Motivational Technique, Richard C. Crepeau
The Cult Of Number Oneness - More Strange Motivational Technique, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
Who is number one? Numero Uno. Primero. The Top Dog. The Best. The Greatest. This is the issue. This is the prime topic of all those sports talk shows that moan on and on through the long night of multiple time zones across America; Or on the twenty four hours of endless babble networks.