Point of the Game

Conversations on Sports, Ethics and Culture

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Politics, Identity and Sport: Review of Invictus

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Place traditionally defines sports identification. People follow "my" team which lives in a place of habitation or memory.  Teams ...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Coaching Roulette Gets Stranger

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College coaching roulette just got a lot more interesting and a lot sadder. Pete Carroll of USC, who should know better, suddenly ejected f...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Domino's Pizza and the Reality of College Athletics

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It was only a matter of time. College football and basketball have become commodities to be consumed by viewers on TV and for a privileged f...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Team Chemistry II

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Team chemistry exists in the relations among players and between players and coaches. It depends upon mutual understanding of the common exp...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Team Chemistry

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Coaches talk about it; media obsesses about it; quantoids deny it. Team culture and "chemistry" can matter profoundly to the quali...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Coaches Imploding

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I've been discussing college football coaches in the last several blogs because they exemplify all the issues surrounding intercollegiat...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

The Strange Hard World of College Football Coaching

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The yearly bloodbath has begun . 11  major college coaches have been fired of 120 plus Division I-A football teams. Not an unusual number ....
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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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