[lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes

[Joseph Wanzala]

Yes, I agree with you - I was just pointing out Chomsky's views for what 
they are worth - my own take on sports is more culturally chauvinist - I 
come from the former British colonies my own sports interests are rugby, 
football (aka soccer) and cricket - my lack of interest in American sports 
is more a function of not having played them and not understanding them than 
anything else. Indeed, the history and sociology of sport is just as 
instructive and valuable as any other aspect of human endeavor.

(okay, I promise to hold my proverbial tougue for the next 24hrs)

Joe W.

p.s. I highly recommend The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches

http://www.twbookmark.com/books/73/0316897752/press_release.html

"Great books have been writen about great fighters, but many writers, 
equating the courage exhibited in the ring to personal greatness outside the 
ropes, tend to rely on a tired formula: fighters are good, and everyone else 
associated with the sport is evil. Re-creating Liston's story with an almost 
biblical sense of high drama, Tosches reworks the equation: Liston was a 
dangerous man, and the people he associated with were even more dangerous. 
An unforgettable book, as much about American culture as it is about the 
sport of boxing."
--Booklist, starred review, February 1, 2000


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes
>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:29:29 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>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
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