America’s soccer squad has an unsettling resemblance to the human prey in “The Most Dangerous Game.”
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Tag Archives: Sports
U. S. as Prey in Most Dangerous Game?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged FIFA, Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell, Soccer, World Cup Comments closed
Miami Heat Stymied by Heat
The Miami Heat were beaten by a heat-assisted San Antonio team in the first game of the playoffs. Here’s an H.D. poem about heat.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Heat", Basketball, H.D., Hilda Doolittle, Miami Heat, NBA, San Antonio Spurs Comments closed
Titanic Struggles, on the Court & at Home
This moving David Rivard poem shows how a moment in basketball can symbolically capture a contentious father-son relationship.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Fall River", Basketball, Bill Russell, David Rivard, Family, fathers and son, NBA, Wilt Chamberlain Comments closed
The End of Every Fan’s Desire
Orioles manager Buck Showalter lived his childhood in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and brings to mind an old Franklin Adams baseball poem.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ballad of Baseball Burdens", Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, Buck Showalter, Franklin Adams Pierce Comments closed
For Sterling, Waves Came Crashing In
Collective player anger may have led to the NBA’s harsh punishment for Clippers owner Don Sterling. Lucille Clifton has a poem about the power of collective black action.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "if something should happen", Basketball, Don Sterling, Lucille Clifton, NBA Comments closed
NBA Playoffs: Daphne Chases Apollo
Like the topsy-turvy forest in “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the NBA playoffs are witnessing strange reversals.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Basketball, Midsummer Night's Dream, NBA playoffs, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Asphalt Court Dreams
Asphalt court basketball players dream of the spotlight.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "First Love", backyard basketball, Basketball, Carl Lindner Comments closed
Is Tiger, Like Sherlock, Presumed Dead?
Sherlock Holmes had an unexpected second act. Can Tiger Woods have one as well?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Golf, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Tiger Woods Comments closed
Bat Waits for Ball to Mate
The start of the baseball season calls for this fine May Swenson poem.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Analysis of Baseball", Baseball, May Swenson, opening day Comments closed