Tag Archives: Football

Sports Autographs & Locks of Hair

By Robin Bates | Published: November 8, 2014

Fans’ obsession with autographs are like the Baron’s obsession with Belinda’s locks in “Rape of the Lock.”

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Peyton Manning as Poe’s Dupin

By Robin Bates | Published: October 25, 2014

Peyton Manning is like Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin, who uses his keen mind to triumph over devious opponents.

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Tom Brady Channels Medea’s Fury

By Robin Bates | Published: October 11, 2014

Lack of respect can lead to fury and destruction. As it was with Medea, so it was last week with Tom Brady.

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Longing for Grace in the Face of Chaos

By Robin Bates | Published: September 27, 2014

Howard Nemerov’s 1975 ambivalence about televised football anticipates our own mixed feelings today.

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Peterson and Literary Child Thrashings

By Robin Bates | Published: September 20, 2014

Adrian Peterson’s mistreatment of his four-year-old son has echoes of the caning described by Rudyard Kipling.

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Can Raillery Defuse NFL Anger?

By Robin Bates | Published: September 13, 2014

Aphra Behn wrestles with novel ways to deal with potential abuse in her play “The Rover.”

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The Seahawks: Prepared to Swoop & Kill

By Robin Bates | Published: September 6, 2014

The Seattle Seahawks look prepared, once again, to unleash havoc on the other teams in the NFL–like the hawk in a Robert Cording poem.

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Austen, Moral Equivocation, and the NFL

By Robin Bates | Published: August 30, 2014

My love of the NFL runs me up against some real moral quandaries. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte would understand.

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The Skater below the Ice

By Robin Bates | Published: February 15, 2014

This wonderful Dacey poem about skating captures the other self we feel is just beyond the horizon–or beneath the ice.

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