Tag Archive | Imperialism
Posted on July 20, 2013. Tags: 2014 Games, 2014 Winter Olympics, Dream Teams, Faint Hope, Herb Brooks, Imperialism, International Ice Hockey, International Ice Hockey Federation, Miracle On Ice, Money Talks, National Hockey League, National Hockey League Players Association, Nhl Players, Professional Athletes, Professional Program, Regular Season Schedule, S Sports, Sochi Russia, Winter Games, Winter Olympics
I had nursed the faint hope that perhaps sports imperialism in the form of pro athletes in the hockey portion of the Winter Olympics would due out because the NHL would not alter its season to accommodate the pros in the Games. But alas (as I am in many areas since I got married!) I […]
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 9, 2013. Tags: Amateurs, Avery Brundage, Golf Digest, Golf Pros, Imperialism, Olympic Games, Olympic Golf, Olympic Sport, Outrage, Professional Golfers, S Sports, Showcase, Sorry Folks, Stroke Play, Television, Throwback, Wrestling
A good solid article in Golf Digest on Olympic golf in 2016. And it’s coming: And some even want to see a throwback to the Avery Brundage era and limit the competition to amateurs. Sorry, folks, but today’s Olympic Games–in almost all sports–showcase the best athletes competing in the most popular formats. So, for golf, […]
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 March 20, 2013. Tags: Ahold, Art Buchwald, Boise State, Espn, Full Swing, Go Green Bay, Humorist Art Buchwald, Imperialism, Life In The Spirit, Michael Wilbon, Middle Tennessee State, National Champ, National Sports, Ncaa Bb, Ncaa Tournament, Pardon The Interruption, Sportswriters, Tarheels, Tony Kornheiser, Weekdays
Yes, whatever I can call it – the NCAA BB tourney (men’s and women’s [Go Green Bay Phoenix and Notre Dame!]) is in full swing. I tried to get Liberty the win but they fell short last evening. I found a great show that features two of my favorite sportswriters: Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon […]
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 February 21, 2013. Tags: Basketball Team, Boodle, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Horizon League, Imperialism, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Lebron James And Carmelo Anthony, Mike Krzyzewski, Nba Star, Ncaa Final Game, Ncis, Olympic Basketball, Olympic Glory, Olympic Sports, Realistic Chance, Smoke Filled Room, Titles Of Nobility, Vcu, Young Basketball Player
Every reader of this blog knows my feelings about the pro athletes in the Olympics as being sports imperialism. Only the larger nations can realistically have a pro league or pro program sufficient to have a realistic chance to win a medal in the Games. Thus pro athletes rob smaller nations of a chance at […]
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 February 6, 2013. Tags: 2014 Olympics, 2014 Winter Olympics, Alex Ovechkin, Amateur Divisions, Dominance, Fasel, Hockey Olympics, Imperialism, Olympic Website, Olympics, Olympics News, Olympics Sports, President Rene, Russian Player, Sochi, Sporting News, Torchbearer, Washington Capitals, Winter Olympics, Winter Sports
The Sporting News is reporting that it is “highly likely” that the NHL players will play hockey in the 2014 Winter Olympics. In a recent interview with the Olympic website Around the Rings, IIHF president Rene Fasel is confident that NHL players will participate in the Sochi games. “I’m really confident that the NHL players […]
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 February 5, 2013. Tags: Ambassador, American Imperialism, Central Government, Civil War, Cold War, Communists, Enemies, First Gulf War, First World War, Gulf War, Imperialism, Mental Exercise, Mexican War, Nazis, Own Business, Second World War, Spanish American War, Trist, Versailles Treaty, War Of 1812, War War
I’ve been pondering this posting for some time. How long could the USA have gone without a war? If we had followed the Constitution, renounced imperialism, minded our own business, what wars would we have been in? How might history have changed? Try this mental exercise: I think the War of 1812 was probably necessary […]
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 January 8, 2013. Tags: Abolition, Abolitionists, Admiration, Agitation, American Experience, Biblical References, Biblical Values, Blogger, Border States, Constitutional Amendment, Constitutional Position, Contrary, Elijah Lovejoy, Embrace, Fervency, Founding Principles, Go In Peace, Human Bondage, Imperialism, Liberator, Mini Series, Mob, Nonsense, Pbs, Peculiar Institution, Racial Prejudice, Radical Ideas, Repentance, Slavery, Slavery In The Usa, Sorts, Spiritual Mentor, Sports, Unconstitutional War, Warr, William Lloyd Garrison
I am excited that PBS (No, I am not going soft – PBS should be denationalized and privatized!) is going to show a three part (Can I say mini-series?) event through their American Experience brand on The Abolitionists. I have tremendous admiration and respect for the abolitionists and consider William Lloyd Garrison a spiritual mentor […]
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 January 6, 2013. Tags: Amateur Event, Bob Costas, Defending Champion, Filip, Grimaldi, Guess, Hockey Championships, Hockey World Championships, Ice Hockey World Championships, Imperialism, Junior Ice Hockey, Minute Span, Olympic Games, Olympics, Power Play, Professional Athletes, Rocco, Sandberg, Second Period, Wikipedia
Here is a online poll in a Milwaukee newspaper on whether professional athletes should be in the Olympic Games and I urge my readers who agree with me that it is sports imperialism to vote NO! To show the sporting and balance in a more amateur event – the Junior ice hockey world championships were […]
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 December 13, 2012. Tags: Dr Gill, Electoral Reforms, Former Sports, Imperialism, Indian Government, Indian Sports, International Olympic Committee, Ioa, Ioc, Olympic Association, Olympic Games, Olympic Movement, Olympic Official, Olympics Sports, Paper Tigers, Professional Athletes, Remarkable Story, Sports Official, Term Limits, Unfairness, Verge, Visionary
There is a remarkable story that I must research further on the IOC suspending the India Olympic Association from the Olympic movement. I do not know what the facts are yet. But here’s an interview with a former Indian Sports Minister [Dr. R. S. Gill] who seems to be close to what is occurring in […]
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 October 1, 2012. Tags: Amateur Competition, Amateur Competitions, Amateur Division, Amateur Sports, Basketball Teams, Cinderella, Imperialism, Ioc, Medals, Moneyed Interests, Ncaa, Ncaa Tournament, Olympic Games, Olympics, Other Sports, Pro Basketball, Professional Team, Sports Basketball, Sports Tennis, Usoc
I am still concerned about the Olympic Games. I have not backed off a bit: It’s still sports imperialism to have pro athletes at the Games because not every nation can field a professional team or train pro athletes in sports like tennis. But I realize that the IOC, the USOC and the moneyed interests […]
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 September 7, 2012. Tags: Allegations, Amaury Sport Organization, Ap Article, Based Organization, Chief Executive, Daytona Beach, Imperialism, Interesting Things, International Cycling Union, Jurisdiction, Lance Armstrong, Legal Challenge, Sports, Tour De France, Travis Tygart, Turf War, Uci, Us Anti Doping Agency, Usada, World Organization
I have been concerned about the Lance Armstrong case from the beginning. It got more concerned when I read an article on August 25 in Daytona Beach (here is the generic AP article) that said several interesting things. It is actually not up to the US Anti-Doping Agency to take away Armstrong’s Tour de France […]
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 August 12, 2012. Tags: Amateur Athletics, Amateurs, American Swing, Dearth, Deleterious Effect, Do The Right Thing, Hangover, Imperialism, Intrusion, Nigeria, Olympic Tennis, Olympics, Ruination, Supreme Talents, Tennis Calendar, Tim Joyce, Tv Ratings, Venue, Vocal Minority, Wimbledon
Here is a mildly complaining article on the state of Olympic tennis, also taken over by pro athletes to its ruination. This first comment is revealing: Since the Olympics became a venue for professionals to show off their supreme talents, rather than a celebration of amateur athletics, there’s been a decided – however unscientifically sampled […]
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 August 10, 2012. Tags: David Blatt, Dream Team, Gap, Global Basketball, Global Game, Imperialism, Independence From The Soviet Union, International Basketball, Olympic Basketball, Olympic Games, Olympics, Present System, S Sports, Sellout, Slave Trade, Superstars, Uproar, William Wilberforce, World Olympics, Yahoo Sports
We already know that the NBA blog and presumedly the players do not like the proposed Stern 23 and under rule for Olympic Basketball. And while it is not a complete victory, as William Wilberforce would say (he endorsed a neutral bill that had the tendency to eliminate 80% of the British slave trade), it […]
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 August 3, 2012. Tags: Amateur Team, Autograph Session, Basketball Game, Basketball Player, Better Chance, Cohort, Disrespect, Fast Breaks, Imperialism, Lebron, Mismatch, Olympic Basketball, Olympic Games, Olympic Spirit, Olympics Sports, Professional League, S Sports, True Competition, Tunisian, Usoc
156-73 I don’t know what to say I am so angry. I want to join the President Obama apology tour. This kind of outrageous mismatch is exactly the reason why the pro athletes must GO from the Olympic games. They skew the results so as to hinder true competition. They offend other nations needlessly. (And […]
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 29, 2012. Tags: Admiration, American Samoa, Boxer, British Commonwealth Of Nations, Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Of Nations, Guam, Heck, Imperialism, Live Coverage, Match Games, National Olympic, Nbsp, Nod, Northern Marianas, Olympians, Olympic Committee, Puerto Rico, Us Virgin Islands, World Champ
The Olympians from Botswana take to the field, or in this case, the ring, tomorrow at 9 am EDT, as Oteng Oteng boxes against Puerto Rico’s Jayvier Cintron. (Puerto Rico has its own Olympic committee and team; so much for US imperialism! So does Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Marianas and American Samoa!) I hate […]
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 8, 2012. Tags: Abolitionist, Agitator, American Flag, Basketball Game, Basketball Team, Basketball Teams, Bobsled, Crazy Man, Curling, Front Yard, Human Bondage, Imperialism, Last Winter, Olympic Athletes, Real Solution, Role Model, Sabre, Usoc, William Lloyd Garrison, Winter Games
I have written and posted some hard-hitting posts on the Olympics. I like to use words and phrases to get people to read and think (My hero and role model for this is William Lloyd Garrison the abolitionist agitator and he had tough words to say about a number of issues) such as “sports imperialism” […]
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 April 22, 2012. Tags: Argentina Sports, Basketball Team, Billions Of Dollars, Commericals, Corporate America, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Mavericks Owner, Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban, Dictionary, Imperialism, Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban, Nba Athletes, Olympic Committee, Olympic Team, Patriotism, Smoke Filled Room, Sports Bar, Supernova Explosion, Usa Dream Team, Usa Men
I made my point clear several days ago and I’ll keep making it: The USA men’s basketball team is not representative of the USA I know and thus I cannot support it. I won’t do it. It’s chosen of pro NBA athletes chosen again and again in a smoke-filled room. I’ll openly root against them […]
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 March 24, 2012. Tags: Cannes Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Colonialism, Communism, Croix De Guerre, Different Light, Film Symposium, Followers Of Christ, French Colonial Policy, French Film Festival, French Forces, Imperialism, Injustice, Life On Earth, Military Decorations, Nazi Resistance, Peaceful Life, Short Film, Soft Underbelly, Vautier, War Movies, Whittaker, Wrongdoing, Young Lady
When many think of a French Film Festival, thoughts of a steamy movie with an exotic, attractive young lady and a handsome young man come to mind. (And it better not stay there! Unholiness alert!) But the schedule of the Film Symposium and French Film Festival this year did have my idea of a steamy […]
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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