>Here is Chomsky on Sport:-
>
>Now there are other media too whose basic social role is quite
>different: it's diversion. There's the real mass media-the kinds
>that are aimed at, you know, Joe Six Pack -- that kind.
I don't care at all about sports of any kind, but that's just me. But denouncing sports as a distraction, esp in the context of patronizing references to Joe Six Pack (and what's wrong with beer? like Tom T. Hall, I like beer), looks like another instance of left self-marginalization. It's raw material for critiques of the left as elitist and out of touch. Besides, I know quite a few serious radicals - union organizers, activists, intellectuals - who like sports.
Doug