Without a ball or a modicum of violence, the idioms of American sport, the marathon has never quite caught on with the public as primarily a sporting… Read more “A Pleasurable Difficulty: Reading the Marathon”
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RECORD RUN-UP TO PARIS
Records come and records go. Some last longer than others. We saw two new world records at the Paris Diamond League meeting July 7th as the countdown… Read more “RECORD RUN-UP TO PARIS”
THE FESTIVALIZATION OF SPORT — Respite from the competition of life
In our center-right, celebrity-saturated society it is all but apostacy to say, as Yale University Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom did in a C-SPAN interview in… Read more “THE FESTIVALIZATION OF SPORT — Respite from the competition of life”
RELEASING THE ATHLETE WITHIN
Trends come and go, but despite a balky economy running events throughout the country have continued to experience a wave of women participants as the overall… Read more “RELEASING THE ATHLETE WITHIN”
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