For the last week, I’ve been hiking over to my friend Angie’s house to watch the NBA Finals between the Celtics and the Lakers. Angie’s one of the few people I know who has a TV that actually tunes into channels (most of us just use them for DVDs and video-games), and she’s nice enough [...]
April 18, 2007 – 11:35 am
From The New Yorker’s Waiting for Manny: “He is perhaps the closest thing in contemporary professional sports to a folk hero, an unpredictable public figure about whom relatively little is actually known but whose exploits, on and off the field, are recounted endlessly, with each addition punctuated by a shrug and the observation that it’s [...]
From Most Gruesome/Bizarre Injuries: “Here are the 10 most gruesome/bizarre injuries found on YouTube. (Some famous injuries aren’t on the list i.e. Tim Krumrie, because there isn’t a YouTube clip.) Let me warn you: Most of these are nasty. They will make your stomach turn. So if you’re eating a meal, be careful.”
December 4, 2006 – 12:20 pm
Explaining sports fandom to a non-fan is difficult. For the fan it’s often simply “natural.” That is, caring about a sports team stems from something beyond our ability to precisely rationalize. I’ve tried to explain this, taking a number of different approaches, with varying degrees of success. Or, at least varying degrees of willingness in [...]
October 31, 2006 – 12:54 pm
In Memories of Red, his column about the life and death Red Aurbach, SportGuy writes, “I have to write about it. And I’m staring at an empty laptop screen, thinking to myself, ‘You are not good enough to write this column,’ even though my whole life had specifically played out for me to write that [...]
September 25, 2006 – 12:37 pm
Someone said we don’t have enough sports here on Fluid Imagination. Well, check this shit out. It’s a video of the Rockets’ Tracy McGrady, making 13 points in 33 seconds, to clinch a fantastic come-from-behind victory against the Spurs.
August 10, 2006 – 10:00 am
Jean Baudrillard appears in a column on ESPN.com — ESPN DOT COM, mind you! From Chuck Klosterman’s essay, Reality and fantasy don’t mix: “I have no idea whether French post-structuralist Jean Baudrillard plays fantasy football…His theories, however, seem central to the totality of its existence.” Post-structuralism on ESPN. Sorry, but I just had to link [...]
The Boston Celtics are getting cheerleaders dancers.
March 17, 2006 – 12:43 am
McSweeney’s: What would your ideal fantasy-baseball lineup be if you had to create it using only characters from classic Nintendo video games?
February 23, 2006 – 01:07 pm
When I was a kid, watching the NBA, I had two favorite players (well, besides everyone on the Celtics). The first, as one or two of you may remember, was Isiah Thomas. The other, Spud Webb. Why? It’s simple. As a kid who couldn’t even dream of being six feet tall, I liked them because [...]
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