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It’s Super Bowl week, and as NBA star Karl Malone once explained to a foreign journalist when asked why baskets are worth two points instead of one: “That’s just the way we do it here, my man.” Super Bowl Week is about excess, about overkill, about the same themes getting battered relentlessly. It’s about New England tight end Rob Gronkowski, discussing his injured ankle, saying that he is “moving forward every day” two dozen times in a single interview session. It’s about Chris Snee explaining 200 times what it feels like to be both a player for Coughlin and also his son-in-law. It’s about media folk like myself splitting our time between complaining that there is so much media here and also interviewing other media...
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Some have attached a high degree of significance to the possibility that Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs suffered a torn (full or partial) Achilles tendon while playing basketball. Technically, it doesn’t matter. If a... more »
So again the sporting world is confronted by tragedy, and we are left to debate and contemplate. A gunshot. Disbelief. A haunting refrain, the Beatles singing, "I read the news today, oh, boy, about a lucky man who made the... more »
Football players are killing each other. The death sentence isn't immediate, but it's there -- and we all know it. Whether they die from dementia or Alzheimer's or their own hand, NFL players are dying too ... more »
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