
Roots of Sports Fanaticism in Gatsby Era
"He's quite a character around New York," Jay Gatsby tells Nick Carraway, in the opening pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, about his friend Meyer Wolfsheim, "a denizen of...
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"He's quite a character around New York," Jay Gatsby tells Nick Carraway, in the opening pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, about his friend Meyer Wolfsheim, "a denizen of...

The Brooklyn Nets, my local basketball outfit, were eliminated from the NBA playoffs Saturday night, surrendering with little resistance in Game 7 of their first-round series to the...

After a marathon that danced with joy and ended in horror, surely we see what sports can mean to a city. By now, after pregame tributes marked by an anthem singer's fist pumps and the...