Welcome to Thinking about Sports!
This is the inaugural post to my blog about sports -- welcome and thanks for reading. As this blog develops, I hope to do three things.
First, I hope to create a forum in which I can explore and refine for myself my many opinions, thoughts, and musings about sports. I am a rabid sports fan, but too often I feel that the level of discourse in the world of sports is entirely too lowbrow. When I tell someone that I am a huge sports fan, that I wake up early every weekday morning to watch NBA games and read the sports section, often I can't help but feel a bit ashamed, like I should be better than that. Sports are a rich, vibrant, and fascinating part of our culture, and one with which I am thoroughly engaged. In creating this blog, I hope to be able to record and flesh out my own impressions on the whole of the sporting world, with a focus on the NBA and Major League Baseball, since these are the sports I follow most closely.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, I hope to create a forum for communication, discussion, debate, and synthesis for others who feel the way I do. By posting my thoughts on the Web, I hope to connect with others who care and think deeply about sports, to use the wonder of the Internet to engage in an intellectual sharing that in the old days would be nothing more than a pipe dream.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I hope to have some fun, keep busy, have a hobby. I love sports, I love thinking, and I love writing, so creating a blog about sports, a thinking man's blog about sports, seems like the perfect thing
Thanks and keep reading!
First, I hope to create a forum in which I can explore and refine for myself my many opinions, thoughts, and musings about sports. I am a rabid sports fan, but too often I feel that the level of discourse in the world of sports is entirely too lowbrow. When I tell someone that I am a huge sports fan, that I wake up early every weekday morning to watch NBA games and read the sports section, often I can't help but feel a bit ashamed, like I should be better than that. Sports are a rich, vibrant, and fascinating part of our culture, and one with which I am thoroughly engaged. In creating this blog, I hope to be able to record and flesh out my own impressions on the whole of the sporting world, with a focus on the NBA and Major League Baseball, since these are the sports I follow most closely.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, I hope to create a forum for communication, discussion, debate, and synthesis for others who feel the way I do. By posting my thoughts on the Web, I hope to connect with others who care and think deeply about sports, to use the wonder of the Internet to engage in an intellectual sharing that in the old days would be nothing more than a pipe dream.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I hope to have some fun, keep busy, have a hobby. I love sports, I love thinking, and I love writing, so creating a blog about sports, a thinking man's blog about sports, seems like the perfect thing
Thanks and keep reading!
posted by Nicholas Taylor at
2:42 PM
2 Comments:
Nick -
Great start to your blog. If you're interested in an intellectual discussion of sports, albeit coming from a more political perspective, check out Dave Zirin's website - Edge of Sports. He's a young sportswriter that covers the intersection of sports with politics and culture. I'm in the middle of reading his book, "'What's My Name, Fool?' Sports and Resistance in the United States". Nothing to do with the statistical side of following sports, but interesting in its own right.
Good luck!
Joel (from Park Slope b-ball)
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Joel Humowiecki, at 2:34 PM
Joel,
Thanks so much for your kind words. I certainly will check out Edge of Sports.
Your pal,
Nick
By
Nicholas Taylor, at 2:38 PM
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