First up, Superbowl XLVII is on Monday1. With that in mind, here’s a piece from businessweek.com that asks Will Brain Injury Lawsuits Doom or Save the NFL?
Mental illness is a topic not often broached in sports writing, which given the current debate around drugs, is both surprising and neglectful. This piece by Chuck Klosterman reveals NBA rookie Royce White as a man with a lot of radical thoughts about his own mental illness. But that’s just the beginning — he’s worried about your brain, too.
A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports’ Biggest Names by Tim Elfrink is a story about sportsmen and drugs that was not obtained by buying medical records that were stolen from a bin.
Last week’s read featured a story about pinnies, which got me to thinking about the Warrnambool Rollerbowl, a venue that combined pinnies with roller-skating, indoor cricket and… ten pin bowling. Here’s a brilliant read from D Magazine last July that came to my attention this week.
And finally, both John Harms and I had a crack at Shane Warne this week, but the last word should go to the man who wrote the book on Warne (literally), Gideon Haigh.
1. I give it two years, tops, before the AFL adopts Roman numerals for the Grand Final.
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Take me more than a weekend to read and properly get across this stuff but one thing is for sure, the day and age of “just get on with your life” without any attempt to analyse cause and effect is well and truly finished and I think that this is a good thing. It does mean though that no issues are black and white any more and thus makes previous certainties uncertain and life heaps more complicated.
Cough, cough…. I produced some of my best work at the Rollerbowl back in the day…cough, cough.
Think you are being a bit tough on the AFL in your footnote. Andrew tells me he only came XXIVLCD ‘th out of XXCLVID sociopathic CEO’s surveyed.
I reckon Gideon’s cricket wisdom is wasted on a Tory rag hardly anyone reads. In fact his incite is wasted in the media full stop, he should be seconded by CA to a role where he can advise Cricket Average on some strategic direction on a range of issues.