Today at TomDispatch, Robert Lipsyte looks at recent media sideshows involving Michael Vick, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds, Bill Belichick, et al., and wonders if there’s trickeration afoot:
After all, the powers-that-be love to promote sports scandals which encourage a hopelessness about the world as well as our ability to change or control it. Sports scandals liberate us from having to stand up, vote, demonstrate, move on. What’s the use when everything – including our games and pastimes – is so obviously fixed, or at least a little bit crooked?
But as Lipsyte notes, there’s one story at the intersection of sports and war “that refuses to die … one that, it seems, could yet give us hope.” Check it out.
