At the after party for Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s documentary, Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot, it was pretty easy to recognize who was in the movie … just look for the giants! The film documents a 2006 game between 24 of the best high school basketball players in the country at Rucker Park in Read More
I went to a friend’s son’s bar mitzvah on Saturday and in some part because of my blog, and its discussion of Jewish politics, felt a little alienated. I forgot to get a yarmulke, then I ran to get one. I wondered who if anyone there had seen my ideas. Later, at the reception, I Read More
When Steve Nash said yesterday, “I’m not going to give it back,” he was talking to all the people like me who didn’t want him to win MVP twice in a row. If you believe in democracy—O.K., elitist democracy— you have to see some justice in the award. 125 sporstwriters and broadcasters gave Read More
While the playoffs dribble on (sans the New York Knicks), the National Basketball Association is looking for a new court. Positioning itself as the star tenant in an office tower proposed by Schulweis Realty and Tishman Speyer, the N.B.A. joined a team of lawyers and developers for a game of 5 on 50 at Board Read More
American Fan: Sports Mania and the Culture That Feeds It , by Dennis Perrin. Avon Books, 230 pages, $23.
Folks, let’s face it, there are only two kinds of sports fans. First up, there’s the blood-and-guts romantic variety–you know who you are–the sort of person who takes sport seriously, very seriously, perhaps too seriously. Read More
For a few blessed days during the Winter Olympics in Nagano, hockey was what it should be: a cult game viewed in the wee hours by a devoted bunch of nuts.
Of course, that’s not the way the Nagano experiment was supposed to go. In the months leading up to the so-called Dream Tournament, which Read More
