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”
Tag: Scott Dickey
DUMBING DOWN, SLOWING DOWN
In a recent keynote address at the Andrus Center for Public Policy in Boise, Idaho, retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor lamented what she called… Read more “DUMBING DOWN, SLOWING DOWN”
COMPETITOR CEO SCOTT DICKEY RESPONDS
(Yesterday’s post generated a great deal of interest in the state of the sport given Competitor Group’s decision to end its elite athlete program as currently constituted.… Read more “COMPETITOR CEO SCOTT DICKEY RESPONDS”
“PARK TO PARK” COURSE ROCKS `n` ROLLS IN SAN DIEGO
While the Boston Marathon mapped out course success right off the line in 1897 by mirroring the route that the inaugural Olympic Marathon used in 1896 to… Read more ““PARK TO PARK” COURSE ROCKS `n` ROLLS IN SAN DIEGO”
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