Y.S. Fing | E-MAIL | Roaming the Outfield Archive Each week, author and poet Y.S. Fing looks at the state of baseball, the movements of the game, the ebb and flow and soul of America’s pastime in Roaming the Outfield. This week: “Ascetic Ideals and the Will” I know that Nietzsche can be […]
RtO: Thirteen Virtues: The First Seven
Y.S. Fing | E-MAIL | Roaming the Outfield Archive Each week, author and poet Y.S. Fing looks at the state of baseball, the movements of the game, the ebb and flow and soul of America’s pastime in Roaming the Outfield. This week: “Thirteen Virtues: The First Seven” I admit my bent toward Siddhartha, […]
The NBA Draft: A Viewer’s Guide
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 […]
The Man From Denver
DORAN MILLER-ROSENBERG | TWITTER | E-MAIL When I became sentient, I didn’t understand the NBA. My instincts told me basketball was its most beautiful and efficient when the team was put before its parts. Seems reasonable enough. And yet in my lifetime it was the stars that dominated the Association. The personalities (read: brands) […]
An Affair With Radio
J.G. SULLIVAN | E-MAIL You never considered yourself a sports fan. You were an aesthete. You lived for art and music and philosophical conversations about existential dilemmas. You ran with a pack of weirdoes and misfits and thought that by your late twenties you’d be sipping espresso at an outdoor café in Paris and working […]
Fight Night
SUNIL JOSHI | E-MAIL The Barclays Center glows rusted gold as the afternoon sun hits it just so, visible from blocks away, rising from the low-density Park Slope skyline like a fiery tribute to the power of the modern urban government. It’s a beautiful, steadfast gleam in the right light, befitting the relentless effort […]
RTO: Baseball and the Anti-Christ
Y.S. Fing | E-MAIL | Roaming the Outfield Archive Each week, author and poet Y.S. Fing looks at the state of baseball, the movements of the game, the ebb and flow and soul of America’s pastime in Roaming the Outfield. This week: “Baseball and the Anti-Christ” When I say that we live in a […]
RtO: A Thought Experiment
Y.S. Fing | E-MAIL | Roaming the Outfield Archive Each week, author and poet Y.S. Fing looks at the state of baseball, the movements of the game, the ebb and flow and soul of America’s pastime in Roaming the Outfield. This week: “A Thought Experiment” What if everybody decided they would no longer distinguish between pain […]
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 […]