JOSHUA LARS WEILL | @AgonicaBoss | E-MAIL On Thursday, the National Basketball Association will conduct its annual drafting of first-year players. Since Clifton McNeeley was selected by the Pittsburgh Ironmen first overall in 1947, every year the League has had college, and later high school then international, players line up to hear (or read about weeks later […]
On Boston, Terror and Sports
JOSHUA LARS WEILL | @AgonicaBoss | E-MAIL It was difficult for me to watch the first-person video and footage of the bombs going off in Boston on Monday. Understandably the news networks, still mostly confused and yet reporting nearly every shred of information, true or not, were hungry for such video. It allowed the viewer a nearly […]
The Ides of March Madness
JOSHUA LARS WEILL | @AgonicaBoss | E-MAIL The Ides of March are upon us, draped in blasts of color, product sneakers, sweat and mad men in garish suits. Players perform a ritual dance in the center of us, each with his own take on that ancient theme: victory over other men. Barely more than children, they shoulder […]
Whither the Jock Radical?
JOSHUA LARS WEILL | @AgonicaBoss | E-MAIL An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir By Robert Lipsyte Ecco, 2011 246 pp. $25.99 The Athletic Revolution By Jack Scott Free Press, 1971 Unlike so many Americans, longtime New York Times sportswriter Robert Lipsyte never wanted to be a jock. He has his reasons. As his memoir An Accidental Sportswriter shows, since growing up […]