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Category Archives: sports
Love in the Time of Rioting
Posted in endorsements, photography, politics, sex, sports
SEC Football
“To the eyes of a northern college football fan, the Southeastern Conference can look a little like Latin American club soccer. Hordes of deranged fans howling prelinguistically while pressed against chain-link fences. Throbbing arenas stacked with grandstands that lift their drunken hordes high up into humid skies. A sense of retribution that’s vendetta-grade. The homemade weapons. A pool of fearsome athletes groomed since birth in ramshackle muckland favelas to perform weirdly specialized physical acts at high speed. Mysterious guilds that underwrite the whole thing with funds it’s not easy to determine the origins of. Murder.”
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Lakers-Celtics
To say the 1980s rivalry between the Celtics and the Lakers represents America’s racial anguish is actually a short-sighted understatement. As I have grown older, it’s become clear that the Lakers-Celtics rivalry represents absolutely everything: race, religion, politics, mathematics, the reason I’m still not married, the Challenger explosion, Man vs. Beast, and everything else. There is no relationship that isn’t a Celtics-Lakers relationship. It emerges from nothingness to design nature, just as Gerald Henderson emerged from nothingness to steal James Worthy’s errant inbound pass in game two of the 1983 finals. Do you realize that the distance between Henderson and Worthy at the start of that play – and the distance between them at the point of interception – works out to a ratio of 1.618, the same digits of Leonardo da Vinci’s so called “golden ratio” that inexplicably explains the mathematical construction of the universe? Do not act surprised. It would be more surprising if the ratio did not.
—Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
The Lakers and Celtics meet in the NBA Finals for the twelfth time starting tonight.
Super Bowl XLIII
The talented Aaron Draplin, one half of the team responsible for Field Notes, re-imagines this year’s Super Bowl logo.
Here, for comparison’s sake, is this year’s official logo:
I don’t know about you, but I like Draplin’s version way better.
Carson Palmer on OSU Football
“I don’t watch what I say. I cannot stand the Buckeyes, and having to live in Ohio and hear those people talk about their team, it drives me absolutely nuts…. It’s amazing to hear what those guys think about that university and what they think about that football program and [Ohio State coach Jim] Tressel and all the crap I gotta put up with being back there. I just can’t wait for two years from now when ’SC comes to the ’Shoe and I get to hopefully, hopefully we’ll have a home game that weekend and I can go up there and watch us pound on them in their own turf and kind of put all the talk to rest. Because I’m really getting sick of it and I just can’t wait for this game to get here so they can come out to the Coliseum and experience LA and get an old-fashioned Pac-10 butt-whoopin’ and go back to the Big Ten … I can’t wait.”
—Former USC Quarterback and Current Cincinnati Bengal Carson Palmer
