Posts Tagged basketball
In Like a Lion, Out Like Ezra Pound
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament starts today, and to mark the occasion, here’s a clip of some fantastic soccer highlights interspersed with thunderous slam dunks. I’m not sure what the point is, but it makes sense in a poetic way, and it’s not a bad way to spend 4:10. Which, come to think [...]
The Genius of Basketball and the Genius of Soccer
One takes something so difficult that a practiced adult can’t do it reliably and makes it so easy that we see it done dozens of times, acrobatically, in a game. The other takes something so simple that my two-year-old niece can do it and makes it so hard that seeing it done once in [...]
