Posted on July 14, 2012. Tags: Ancient Sports, Athletic Career, Competition Soccer, Different Cultures, Household Names, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, London 2012, Lucrative Event, Modicum, Olympic Basketball, Olympic Soccer, Professional Athletes, Quality Team, Serious Sports, Soccer Tournament, Soviet Bloc, Sports Competition, Sports Event
Yesterday, I blogged on someone who DOES GET IT: Michael Callahan at the Philly Post! Today, Theodore Furchtgott, at Real Clear Sports takes the opposite position: Olympic Soccer should be more like basketball! Yes, really: And though the Olympic basketball cannot match the NBA in terms of general quality, Team USA will include such household […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 14, 2012. Tags: American Fans, Different Cultures, Dry Eye, Gold Medal, Medal Ceremony, Michael Callahan, Mutual Consent, National Anthem, National Pride, Olympic Games, Olympic Telecast, Personal Glory, Plain Fact, Shining Moment, Skin Crawls, Sportsmanship, Theatrics, Tiny Country, Wenzel, Xenophobia
I stumbled upon these articles by Michael Callahan in regards to the Olympic Games. He first called for people to not watch the Games at all: But it’s not the overblown theatrics of the modern Olympics that has me tuning out. It’s the plain fact that we have lost, in the zealous xenophobia that now […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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