rosslynhoya
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Post by rosslynhoya on Apr 2, 2011 16:28:46 GMT -5
Wright Thompson explains cricket in modern India and the phenomenon that is Sachin Tendulkar to an American audience. This is exceedingly long, but I find this sort of thing fascinating - a billion Indians revere this man and I knew nothing about him. For those who read the Thompson article, India won the title today, their first Cricket World Cup in 28 years.
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Post by The Stig on Apr 2, 2011 22:23:34 GMT -5
Wright Thompson explains cricket in modern India and the phenomenon that is Sachin Tendulkar to an American audience. This is exceedingly long, but I find this sort of thing fascinating - a billion Indians revere this man and I knew nothing about him. Yeah, that was a fantastic piece, and Wright Thompson is a superb writer. It also does a very good job of capturing the crossroads that cricket is at right now. New trends like shorter game formats and power hitters have the potential to increase the game's popularity in a huge way, but they're also alienating the game's traditional fans and the purists.
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Post by superan on Apr 11, 2011 11:02:50 GMT -5
Cricket is kind of going through a similar phase that all sports leagues go through at some point in their history.
When the NBA grew in popularity in the late 40s/early 50s, teams, once they had the lead, were literally holding on to the ball for minutes of the game without shooting and basically playing "keep away". The rising popularity of the NBA was almost squandered until a shot clock was instituted that sped the game up. Players/coaches resented the change initially because the strategy of the game completely changed but the game was just more entertaining to watch and basketball became steadily more popular. Later, the addition of the 3 point line upset purists but it prevented teams from packing the defense in the paint and spread the game out.
The purists of cricket oppose the shorter game formats and the associated changes in strategy (more power hitters) but frankly, these things just make the sport more watchable to fans.
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Post by The Stig on May 10, 2011 18:26:04 GMT -5
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Post by HometownHoya on May 10, 2011 19:09:55 GMT -5
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Post by Jack on Jun 10, 2011 11:18:22 GMT -5
So I am sure everyone with a passing interest in sports journalism on the internet is well aware of Grantland.com, but I want to say that its first 3 days have been spectacular so far, and no article has been better than today's oral history of The National, along with a companion first-person recollection from noted Simmons-basher Charlie Pierce. It is worth the read in its entirety, but I though Hoyatalkers would particularly appreciate the following, possibly apocryphal, BUM-related anecdote: Frank Deford denies it, but I choose to believe it as gospel.
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Post by rosslynhoya on Jun 10, 2011 11:37:33 GMT -5
That BUM anecdote has been published somewhere previously. Thank you (and Grantland) for bringing it to light once more.
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Post by kchoya on Jun 10, 2011 17:23:38 GMT -5
That BUM anecdote has been published somewhere previously. Thank you (and Grantland) for bringing it to light once more. On his radio show, when Feinstein still came on as a guest, Kornheiser would needle him from time to time about it. Thanks for pointing out the Grantland piece. A very good read.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jun 21, 2011 11:06:14 GMT -5
Someone pointed me to this again: the (edited) essay version of David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College (which is 20 minutes spoken). This is water
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jun 29, 2011 10:05:34 GMT -5
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Post by flyoverhoya on Jun 29, 2011 12:59:36 GMT -5
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Post by Bando on Jun 30, 2011 12:02:54 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jun 30, 2011 12:44:23 GMT -5
So this is definitely written from a liberal perspective (so be warned), but is still a great history of Trinity College, the small Catholic women's college in NE DC that almost died when Georgetown went co-ed. Georgetown had little to do with Trinity's downfall and rebirth, which took place two deacdes after the College went coed in the fall of 1968 (the SFS, SLL, and SBA were already coeducational in the 1960's). Trinity was tied closer to Catholic University, while Visitation (when it ran a junior college) was the nearby girls school for Georgetown.
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Post by Bando on Jul 12, 2011 11:45:40 GMT -5
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Post by kchoya on Jul 13, 2011 18:23:46 GMT -5
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Post by TBird41 on Sept 1, 2011 15:51:14 GMT -5
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