Let’s identify the potential horror lurking in the proprietary relationships that some fans imagine they enjoy with celebrities.
Coming to terms with our most basic instincts is another thing we learn through boxing.
In the long run, we all pay dearly for the carefully crafted commercial illusion that we can hold people to standards on a selective basis.
Numbers and big data may be able to show us how to do things better, but they cannot show us how to do things.
We’ll have to confront the chasm between our self-conception and our actual behavior
Dick Allen faced racist taunts and boos so numerous and unrelenting that he became the first player in baseball to wear his batting helmet out in the field.