10 Questions: What's Wrong With Sports?
This past week, it was if the world of sports went stark-raving mad, with potential scandals rocking basketball, football, biking -- not to mention baseball and Barry Bonds and the matter of that home run record.
So we fired off our 10 questions to veteran sportswriter William Nack, who was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated for nearly 25 years and whose most recent book is “Ruffian: A Racetrack Romance.” He’s been there, done that, seen it all -- until, perhaps, this past week.
1) Has, in fact, the sports world gone mad?
It is impossible to cover sports in this world for some 35 years, as I have done, and not come away from the experience with a keenly cynical, skeptical view of all things having to do with Sportsworld. Having said that, however, I must add at once that the news stories that have broken---with the scandals literally lined up, cheek by jowl, on sports pages around the world---have had the effect of boggling even the most jaded of sporting minds. The wheels are clearly coming off the wagon...
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1) Has, in fact, the sports world gone mad?
It is impossible to cover sports in this world for some 35 years, as I have done, and not come away from the experience with a keenly cynical, skeptical view of all things having to do with Sportsworld. Having said that, however, I must add at once that the news stories that have broken---with the scandals literally lined up, cheek by jowl, on sports pages around the world---have had the effect of boggling even the most jaded of sporting minds. The wheels are clearly coming off the wagon...
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