Tag Archives: Sports

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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KC Royals Storm into World Series

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2014

The way the Kansas City Royals upended conventional wisdom in making it to the World Series is not unlike the chaos caused by Ariel in “The Tempest” to restore another royal to power.

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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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Player vs. Player on a Simple Field

By Robin Bates | Published: October 4, 2014

A poem to celebrate the baseball playoffs.

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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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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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Can Fed Keep Going? The Bard Weighs In

By Robin Bates | Published: August 23, 2014

I fear that, in the upcoming U.S. Open, Roger Federer will be like Gremio in “Taming of the Shrew.”

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Wonder in an Old Leather Mitt

By Robin Bates | Published: August 9, 2014

Emilio DeGrazia’s poems about an old leather mitt is a wonderful meditation on aging.

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