Well, we're in late football season; basketball season must be around the corner. All "seasonal" sports are year-round now, of course.
"America" is the weekly newsmagazine published by the American Jesuit priests. Its October 20, 2008 issue contains a couple of the best thought-provoking short articles on sports which I've read in a while: "The Games of Tomorrow," a description of the negative influence of money, drugs, and arrogance on sports, by Dave Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist; and "Experiencing Life's Flow," a reflection on psychological wholesomeness and distortion in sports actions, by Patrick Kelly, S.J. of the Center for the Study of Sport and Exercise at Seattle University. (By the way, did you know that the Vatican has an Office for the Church and Sports in its Council [Department] on Culture?) But the most intellectually engaging analysis of the spiritual-moral-psychological corruption of sports in the United States remains, for me, the one chapter on this topic in Christopher Lasch's bestseller book of about fifteen years ago, "The Cult of Narcissism."
-Old Doc
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