http://www.gelfmagazine.com/ en Copyright 2012 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:21:39 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dave McKenna's column in the capital's alt-weekly, the Washington City Paper.]]> http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/he_made_dan_snyder_blink.php http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/he_made_dan_snyder_blink.php Media Sports Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:21:39 -0500 DC Sports Bog in 2006, and while much has changed in the internet landscape since then (you'll find athletes embarrassing themselves on Twitter, not MySpace), Steinberg's Bog remains just as essential—or as completely unessential, depending on how you look at it—as it ever was. Despite the city's sports drought—which has involved only one pro team, DC United, reaching the conference finals in the past six years—Steinberg continues to find interesting angles on DC-anything, from chronicles of curly w's, to Ovie's 'do, to Redskins-themed BBQ beasts known as "fanbulances."]]> http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/gridlocked_in_the_bog.php http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/gridlocked_in_the_bog.php Media Sports Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:16:52 -0500 books, leafed through The Nation's sports issue he guest-edited, heard him speak, hell, if you've read any of his three previous interviews in this very publication—you already know what the man is going to say. It will be passionate, it will be thought-provoking, and it will be anything but the conventional sports conversation. There are certain issues where sports meets politics, let's call them Zirin points, where the mainstream media deigns not to tread. Issues like the unmitigated greed and corruption of sports owners, the lingering effects of racism in sports, and the hyper-regulation of free speech for athletes—issues that as soon as you register them, you can't help but imagine, as I do, a solitary man in Washington, DC, foaming at the mouth at the daily outrages that are occurring in the sports world.]]> http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_fists_that_shook_the_sports_world.php http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_fists_that_shook_the_sports_world.php Books Politics Sports Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:47:30 -0500 Monday Night Football, the World Series, the Olympics, and many big boxing events, including several Muhammad Ali fights. New York Mets manager Ralph Houk once told Cosell, "You're like shit, you're everywhere."]]> http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_brilliance_and_bombast_of_howard_cosell.php http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_brilliance_and_bombast_of_howard_cosell.php Books Media Sports Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:42:19 -0500 The old-school sports columnist is a unique breed of journalist. For decades he gives voice to a city's elations and frustrations, on and off the field. No controversy of player, coach, nor owner passes without his remark, and he has the power to bring unseen stories and people to the public's attention. Unlike his repetitious colleagues on the op-ed page, he's never wanting for material, as the sports world hatches a new drama every day. And as thousands of bloggers and Twittering fans follow in his opinion-sharing footsteps, he scoffs at the hordes in their underwear. http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_old_guard_steps_aside.php http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_old_guard_steps_aside.php Sports Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:51:47 -0500 The Whore of Akron: One Man's Search for the Soul of LeBron James, is testament to Socrates's ancient and enduring wisdom.]]> http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/rage_against_lebrons_machine.php http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/rage_against_lebrons_machine.php Books Sports Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:52:34 -0500 will begin on Christmas Day, an exciting event for pro-hoops lovers after nearly two months of lockout-related drama. Among top storylines for the upcoming season is the New York Knicks' ability to mesh as a team. Boasting two of the top players in the league, Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire, in their first full season together, the Knicks are considered one of the elite squads in the Eastern Conference, a big change after 11 years without a playoff series win. But it takes more than two great players to win a championship—and sometimes even more than three great players, as demonstrated by the Miami Heat's loss in the NBA Finals last season.]]> http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/when_the_knicks_ruled_the_nba.php http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/when_the_knicks_ruled_the_nba.php Books Sports Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:26:57 -0500