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More from the Vault: A Brief Encounter with Orlando Pirates

Jenny Morgan

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The following piece appeared in Issue #7 of Hard Crackers Magazine, which can be purchased here.   I don’t know why I looked round towards our production vehicle. We were in Soweto, in late afternoon sunshine, ...

A Few Thoughts on the Euro 2020/2021 Football Contest

The Left Hook

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It’s been a bit of a lifesaver, telly wise.  The alternatives, mostly bad news, have been Biden’s bipartisan and useless or harmful this and that, and a collapsed building in Florida…and rotten weather, never rule that ...

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On Bruce Springsteen and his Super Bowl Ad…Two Short Essays

John Garvey and Mike Morgan

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“Against the Middle” By John Garvey There’s a chapel in Kansas Standing on the exact center of the lower forty-eight. It never closes. All are more than welcome To come meet here, in the middle. It’s ...

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Why you shouldn’t hate Tom Brady

James Stephens

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Sunday’s Super Bowl will mark the tenth time Tom Brady has played in American football’s biggest game. I understand that people are tired of hearing about Tom Brady. For 20 years now, his name has been ...

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The Forward Pass – An International Recollection on Professional Sport Protest from the Bottom Up

The Left Hook

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The national insurgency against police brutality and murders has finally infiltrated the elevated ether of professional sports in America, quite spectacularly too.  It is both surprising and not so at the same time.  I want to ...

UPDATE ON THE 2019 CRICKET WORLD CUP (as of June 15, 2019)

The Left Hook

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You won’t see anything about this in the NY Times, so I am taking responsibility for giving you yesterday’s news today or is it tomorrow’s news yesterday.  This is all about the Cricket World Cup, currently ...

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Italian Auto Workers Demand Red Card

The Left Hook

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The mega-rich Italian Agnelli family has bulging coffers.  They own the Fiat Chrysler Corporation, Ferrari, and have a controlling interest in Turin’s Juventus football team, one of the premier clubs in Europe.  The Agnellis aren’t exactly ...

Viva Mexico! Dispatches from the World Cup

Zhandarka Kurti

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Little Italy in the Bronx is slowly waking up from the previous night’s revelry. A man wearing a “Kiss me, I’m Italian” t-shirt sets up his makeshift sidewalk kitchen, soon to be selling zeppoles, sausage, and ...