![]() Bill Simmons: any WNBA player could beat you at basketball, and any WNBA player could beat you in a fight. ![]() So every second page has a story about a strip club, or how women should stay in the kitchen, or how WNBA isn't basketball. I bring this up because Simmons, too, tries to fit in, only in his case he's trying to fit in with a very blokey sports culture. Imagine if someone in the middle of a BBC mini series suddenly started calling the women bitches. ![]() It was even worse than the original accent. But it made him stand out among the rest of us, all proud strines ('Australian'). I had a friend in high school who, for some reason, had an extremely upper class English accent. One fairly embarassing problem with this book, though. Well, this is not objective, and who cares, it's *freaking sports people, one small step up from daytime soap operas in terms of importance*. It is not if you think these sorts of things should be 'objective,' which is ridiculous. Is that worth 700 pages? It if you're reading it over three years. Simmons is better than most sports journalists inasmuch as he can write more than one sentence without making me cringe, and he has a sense of humor. I watch sports TV with lunch, but in summer, it's so boring that I often end up doing the dishes instead.įor the last three years, I've spent my summer lunches going through this book. But sports television keeps going for 24 hours a day. Each summer we in the United States go from having 3 great sports to watch and talk about, to having one okay sport. ![]()
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