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...Callahan's splendid article on Julius (''Dr. J'') Erving (SPORT, Dec. 22) reminded me how fortunate my fellow Long Islanders and I were to have witnessed this dynamic yet graceful basketball player when he was a member of the New York Nets. Too bad Erving was traded to Philadelphia when the Nets moved to New Jersey. We lost two treasures in the same year...
...Those who see sport as the pursuit of victory at any cost won't be bothered by some of the habits that have crept into Ponting's teams. Sport soars, however, when the participants show qualities incidental to the goal of winning - like respect for opponents and fans. The exuberance with which Australian batsmen are celebrating on reaching their centuries has become absurd. Much fuss was made over Michael Slater's reaction to making a hundred at Lord's in 1993. But that display, which included kissing the Australian crest on his helmet, was subdued compared to the fits...
...bowls unsporting bumper after bumper at tail enders. Competitive and artless, Ponting is doing his best to ensure Australia keeps winning. That's the job as he sees it, and he's doing it well. Reflecting on his early days, however, might remind him that there's more to sport than that. If he then began to grasp the possibilities of his office, he might become something more than a success. He could be, for decades to come, an inspiration...
...people in it are mostly there to have fun; climbing is a social sport and we try to maintain the same spirit at our competition...
...duly invokes Althusser, Aristotle, Habermas, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Lacan, Montesquieu, Nietzsche, Rousseau and a pantheon of other high domes in his attempt to understand America. Sometimes he tries too hard. A visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, prompts a thesis about that sport as the country's true religion. Americans themselves probably see it as just another drug-riddled branch of the entertainment business. In addition, Lévy's European-ness draws him, like generations of other Old World observers, to all that is grotesque and egregious...