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Day 11: Dunk You Very Much
This also appeared earlier today on the FreeDarko website. But I’m keeping it here for the sake of consistency and for those few readers of mine who come here first. This must be a very precious...
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Day 17: Beautiful Monstrous
I know that over the past month I’ve fallen off the twice-weekly pace that I had set for this course diary in the first couple months of the term. Celebrity visits, travel commitments, the NCAA...
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Hoops 1 Happens: On Ways of Seeing and Being in Basketball
Here are the ways of seeing and being in basketball: I call “Hoops 1” everything that pertains to basketball as a manifestation of integrated human capacities exercised in such a way as to produce...
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Phil Jackson and the Essence of Basketball
Yesterday, Howard Beck published a fine profile of New York Knicks President Phil Jackson. Jackson, a former player (on the championship teams of the Knicks in 1970 and 1973) and coach (of 11...
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The Triangle Myth
In thinking about basketball culture, I’ve found it useful to think about certain recurrent themes, images, metaphors and topics of discussion as myths. I don’t mean “myths” in the sense of...
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