Point of the Game

Conversations on Sports, Ethics and Culture

Showing posts with label winter olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter olympics. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Joyous Danger: Winter Olympics--Speed and Flying

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The Winter Olympics offer more danger than the summer Olympics—not from terrorists, but from friction coefficients. This danger couples wit...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Olympic Virtues

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The 2010 Winter Olympics ended on Sunday. I'll miss them even as I understand that the power of the Olympics derives from the fact tha...
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Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Olympics and Nationalism

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The Winter Olympics opens today. Pageantry, glory, promise, 800 plus hours of NBC TV on 5 channels, no snow and 30 athletes  disqualified so...
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J. Patrick Dobel
I teach at the University of Washington where I served as the faculty athletic representative. I created Point of the Game as a chance to reflect upon upon the role of sport in our society. Point of the Game seeks to be a conversation about about the nature of ethics in athletics and its relation to our human condition.
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