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What Are Sports, Really? What Do We Love About Them? And What, In Our Digital Age, Have They Become?As A Child, David Macfarlane Was An Avid Sports FanAnd Yet He Almost Never Saw An Athletic Competition Live. Despite The Dusty Collection Of Sports Equipment In The Basement, His Parents Had Little Interest In Playing Or Watching Sports, Televised Games Were Subject To Local Blackouts, And Poor Analog Reception Made Hockey Pucks Disappear In Electric Snow. Instead, Macfarlane Pored Daily Over The Sports Pages And Brought Box Scores To School For Current Events, Traded The Rumours And Predictions Of Sportswriters With His Friends, Collected Trading Cards And Played Sandlot Versions Of Baseball, Football And Street Hockey. Each Of These Endeavours Took Place Primarily On The Boundless Fields Of The Imagination, The Thing Professional Sport, Macfarlane Argues, Today Sorely LacksSo Much So That Now HeLl As Soon Profess To Loathe Sports As To Love Them.In On Sports, The Latest In The Field Notes Series, Journalist David Macfarlane Considers The Origins Of His Love Of Sport Against His Discomfort With Their Commodification. From The Pirates, Gangsters, And Extortionist Hooligans Of The International Olympic Committee, To The National Hockey LeagueS Capitulation To Online Gambling, To The Ballooning Of Salaries And DumbedDown Spectacle That Characterize Professional Competition, To His Enduring Affection For Athletic Competition And The Athletes Who Continue To Dazzle In Spite Of It All, Macfarlane Asks What Sports Really Are, What It Is That We Love About Them, And What, Exactly, They Have Become.
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