Feb 24, 2022
Wherein Justice and Andy wrestle with the recent post-game violence at the Wisconsin Badgers and Michigan Wolverines NCAA Division I basketball game. Is basketball worth physically violent confrontation? Of course not. Has the business of college sports grown too large? Of course it has. Do we want children...
Feb 20, 2022
Wherein Andy and Justice continue the discussion of white savior narratives, this time looking at Saul Bellow's 1958 novel Henderson the Rain King, 1995's Dangerous Minds, and 2009's The Blind Side. From Henderson's trip to Africa to Leigh Anne Tuohy's trip to Hurt Village to Louanne Johnson's time in an inner-city...
Feb 10, 2022
Wherein Justice and Andy tackle the imagined communities of sports fandoms in our Super Bowl special. From Justice's sudden and unexpected emotional investment in the Cincinnati Bengals to Andy's disappointment in the Green Bay Packers' playoff loss, we look to Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities to understand...