Posts Tagged diving
One or Two Cases of St. Vitus’ Dance
First: Zach recently asked why Americans focus so much on diving in soccer, when American sports have their own problems with cheating. This is something I’ve wondered about, too, and after giving it some thought, my latest guess is that it’s not the diving Americans mind so much as the writhing on the ground feigning [...]
Going to Ground in America and Europe
Athletes, most of them, aren’t moral paragons, just people who are good at playing games. Morally, some of them are better than others, just as with anyone, and it makes no sense to treat them, as a class, as though they were exemplars of the virtuous life. We know this; we aren’t naive. [...]
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