Tag Archives: Sports

Fed’s Little Cat Feet, Rafa’s Bullish Force

By Robin Bates | Published: June 29, 2013

The Federer and Nadal era may be over. Here they are described in Flaubert, James Patterson, and Carl Sandburg terms.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 22, 2013

Sports narratives that look only at winning and losing are simplistic and misleading.

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By Robin Bates | Published: June 15, 2013

The San Antonio Spurs as so perfect that they’re boring–like Auden’s “Unknown Citizen.”

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2013

A Robert Herrick poem describing a woman’s silks also describes the San Antonio Spurs’ ball movement.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 1, 2013

Lebron’s third quarter explosion against Indiana on Thursday night was Homeric.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 18, 2013

With a lackluster NBA playoffs, I find myself thrown back on my memories. A Fairchild poem understands how I feel.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2013

The thuggish way that the Chicago Bulls ended the Miami Heat’s streak recalls Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “harpies of the shore.”

By Robin Bates | Published: March 23, 2013

An old Taoist poem may capture some of the seemingly effortless transcendence of the greatest athletes.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2013

Between the motion and the act of my tennis game falls the shadow. Translation: too much thinking.