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...Running with that TV theme, IT could have been a way to get any sporting event that’s ever happened, immediately on-demand. ESPN Classic is generally good for this sort of thing—except that cable channel has recently taken to showing bad sports movies during times when one should be able to sit down and expect game action. There are few things more deflating than sitting down to watch something of the dramatic quality of the Kirk Gibson game, only to be met with something like The Garbage-Picking, Field Goal-Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon...
We’ve seen this before. Think the Mariners after A-Rod or the Patriots after Bledsoe. ESPN Page 2 columnist Bill Simmons has even given a name to the phenomenon—the Ewing Theory, after the former New York Knicks center...
...Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. "The sun isn't quite right. It's a little darker than it should be when you look at it." And in the strange half-light, people react to the same events in opposite ways. Bars show CNN instead of ESPN because patrons want the latest news, but a family doctor in a Chicago suburb cancels her subscription to the New York Times because the relentless coverage of fear and threats was taking a toll on her. Peace Corps applications are up 72% in San Francisco, even as Harvard alums fight to restore...
...fact, a look at modern cheerleading reveals that it bears about as much resemblance to parents' memories of the perky sideliners as Chubby Checker does to Beyonce Knowles. As any viewer of espn's popular National High School Cheerleading Championships knows, contemporary cheerleading is part rigorous sport and part Vegas-style entertainment. The tension between the two is prompting schools, communities and national cheerleading associations to lay down some guidelines about what is and what is not acceptable along the sidelines...
...haven’t the Yankees been rumored to acquire—Sammy Sosa, Juan Gonzalez—for little more than Alfonso Soriano and various other Triple-A All-Stars? “ESPN is reporting that the deal between the Yankees and Heaven to put lefthander God Almighty in pinstripes has hit a snag, as the Yankees have been unwilling to include third-base prospect Drew Henson in the deal.” Sheesh...