October 2023 - Page 4 of 5 - More Than A Game

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October 9, 2023

Via The Economist, a look at how India's Narendra Modi has seized and politicized Indian cricket: “Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.” The first line of Ashis Nandy’s “The Tao of [...]

The 1948 Baseball Photo With A Radical Message of Acceptance

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October 9, 2023

Via The Washington Post, an article on a 1948 baseball photo with a radical message of acceptance: Like Jackie Robinson before him, Larry Doby — the first Black player in baseball’s American League — endured racist [...]

Simone Biles’s Most Enduring Move Was Standing Up For Herself

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October 7, 2023

Via The Washington Post, an article on Simone Biles: It makes no sense to stop a pinwheel from spinning and pull out a single-colored vane for examination, just to see how it works. It makes even less sense to talk about [...]

A Transgender Runner’s Push For Inclusion May Have Changed The Sport

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October 7, 2023

Via The Washington Post, an article on how one transgender runner’s push for inclusion may have changed the sport: Cal Calamia, a 27-year-old high school cross-country coach and runner in San Francisco, has quickly emerged [...]

A Michigan State Basketball Player Could Not Profit Off NIL So He Built A School Instead

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October 4, 2023

Courtesy of The Athletic, an inspiring look at how - when a Michigan State basketball player learned he could not profit off NIL - he built a school instead: The truck rumbled along, chewing up the orange-dirt ruts that double [...]

The Politics of Saudi and Iranian Sports

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October 4, 2023

Via James M. Dorsey, commentary on the politics of Saudi and Iranian sports: Saudi and Iranian sports have politics written into their DNA. Little more than a decade ago, Saudi Arabia fielded three expatriate Saudi women [...]

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