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As far as sports-y metaphors for American society go, none is probably quite so eloquent and insightful as football, with its strictly divided class system, its rigid hierarchy of knowledge with a few powerful people of privilege bossing the workers around and, more recently, its complete caving in to the needs of television broadcasters. That [...]

We aren’t huge football fans (rugby, now there’s great sport with an irregularly shaped ball!), but if we had to pick a favorite sort of football highlight it would be between the acrobatic catch and the return for a touchdown. After all, what’s the point of having such a huge field if you can’t run [...]

Onesie here with another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column, Sporty Saturdays. Since it’s a quiet time for my other gigs like freelance mascot work (most leagues are in their off-seasons right now) and sports writing (most publications are cutting back on freelance sports coverage), I’ve had lots of time lately to catch up on [...]