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...bred on a diet of soccer, what is most startling is the strength of the predominant, so-called “Big Three” sports, and their compatibility with one another; baseball, the oldest organized sport in the nation, may be the national pastime, yet it cannot claim to hold a monopoly on the people’s affections—the appeal of football and basketball offer their own substantial challenges. The dominant notion of playoffs and tournament structures in American sport is equally befuddling. Watching the major sporting events in my freshman year with a greater-than...
...Rutgers-Newark came out on top in the tie-breaker, allowing it to claim the seventh seed in the league playoffs and making the Crimson the Hay Division runner...
...party enthusiasts claim that the tea parties were supposedly a spontaneous, nonpartisan, grassroots movement fashioned after the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773, when disgruntled colonists tossed tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation. The only problem is that the tea parties of Tax Day 2009 were neither spontaneous nor, in fact, very much related to the original tea party...
...only was Fox the only network providing full-day coverage of the events, but it was also spending the weeks prior actively promoting and advertising the tea parties under the label “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties.” Of course, it is difficult to claim to be reporting rather than participating when such Fox celebrity anchors as Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Neil Cavuto were hosting events that day—Hannity’s rally in Atlanta being the largest recorded draw in the country with a 15,000-member crowd...
...However, the greater existential question for these spontaneous tea parties than the legitimacy of their spontaneity is the legitimacy of their claim to the title “tea party,” for it is not entirely clear what the protesters were protesting...