Category Archives: Sports

Models Monday: Getting Up

“Why do we fall, sir? So that we might learn to pick ourselves up.” Alfred Pennyworth, Batman This weekend, I watched 30 for 30: Marion Jones: Press Pause–this after viewing 9.79*, another 30 for 30 documentary about the track and field doping scandal involving Ben Johnson in the 1988 Seoul Games. Watching Press Pause was painfulContinue reading “Models Monday: Getting Up”

Models Monday: An End to the Games

I have truly enjoyed the 2012 London Olympic Games (despite NBC’s best efforts to drain whatever enthusiasm I could sustain with their tape delays and sentimental, predictable narratives ostensibly of human interest but completely annoying to sports enthusiasts eager to actually see the competition whose results we had already glimpsed–but I digress). The athletes, particularlyContinue reading “Models Monday: An End to the Games”

Intergenerational Elegance

American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes has offered poignant commentary on Gabby Douglas’s performance at the 2012 Olympic Games. Dawes’s pride and clear support for her younger colleague is refreshing in light of the pointless (social) media contests between athletes from different eras who cannot test their (e-)theories through today’s games. While IContinue reading “Intergenerational Elegance”

The Elegance of Cooperation

Junior distance runner Meghan Vogel won the open mile at the Ohio State championship this past weekend but was on her way to finishing last in the two mile. As she was approaching the finish line, the runner in front of her, Arden McMath, began to collapse–and then something extraordinary happens: Vogel lifts McMath andContinue reading “The Elegance of Cooperation”