- 06:44 PM
- 03/28/25
| Name: | Mert |
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| Member since: | June 18, 2002 |
| Last visit: | August 02, 2002 |
mert has posted 2 links and 2 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 0 comments to the Locker Room.
"America is to sports what Australia is to animals: : we have all the weird stuff, and we think it's normal," writes Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker. "First, it is not merely that our games are better spectacles; it is that they are only, or primarily, spectacles. Few Americans who watch these games play them. We play specially designed, domesticated versions�softball, touch football. Baseball�real hardball�is rarely played by people past the age of twelve; tackle football is the memory of a hobbled minority; and ice hockey remains, at best, the pastime of a frostbitten few."
posted by mert to general at 05:37 PM on July 13, 2002 - 1 comment
Turkey dominates : I thought this was a well played game, but I dont think they have a chance against the Brazilians. It seemed to me that Senegal opened really strong but then were taken off their game somehow.
posted by mert to soccer at 09:03 AM on June 22, 2002 - 8 comments
I'm surprised by how badly the Brits are taking this whole thing. As an American, I cant begin to understand the level of involvment and identification that the British people have with their national team. I guess we are a more ethnically diverse, less culturally homogenous culture, and a defeat does not reflect so directly on the whole of our ethnicity and heritage. If sports are a metaphor for war, the World Cup is the penultimate expression of tribalism.
posted by mert at 08:58 PM on June 21, 2002
Germany v Korea is semifinal 1.
Turkey Germany Brazil Korea