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Excellent articles as of late

It is quite exceptional. A friend of mine brought up a counter point asserting that there are multiple intelligences and that sports is a great outlet for the bodily-kinesthetic minded. The number of professional athletes is a speck, professions wise. But if you throw in the legions of coaches, athletic directors, athletic/medical trainers, and front office management, the athletic complex swells in size.

I couldn't believe the school in Texas actually eliminated sports. Wow, I don't know many of my fellow administrators who would have gone that route. Most of them were coaches earlier in their careers in education. The instructional time lost due to these activities is a problem. Events do need scaling back, though perhaps not eliminated I would argue.
 
Not an article but a picture. In the new Rolling Stone in the news section there's a picture of the singer Macklemore. He's meeting whichever sports team, but it's a great picture. Unlike other celebrities who seem to be photographed with permanent game face...Macklemore is so genuine. He's so happy he's almost bowing to them...all around likable guy from what I've read.
 
Meadow-I love the topic! To me, they are both equally relevant, perhaps fiction is just more stylish in delivering a given point. Historians like Joseph J. Ellis are famous for bringing fiction like story telling to non-fiction. This reminds me of the whole humanities vs. science debate that I may have posted here. to me, it's clear that non-fiction and in the last mentioned debate, the humanities, are grasping for a solid argument against a more powerful foe....at least, more powerful at this point in time.

Bully-Macklemore definitely has my attention. The "one love" song is quite bold and daring, particularly for that genre of music. Where I live, Creighton University offers their students tickets to contemporary acts. I guess they withdrew the offer when they heard Macklemore was coming to Omaha. That is their right as a private, Catholic institution, but one that I disagree with and find absurd.
 
SFG75 said:
Meadow-I love the topic! To me, they are both equally relevant, perhaps fiction is just more stylish in delivering a given point. Historians like Joseph J. Ellis are famous for bringing fiction like story telling to non-fiction. This reminds me of the whole humanities vs. science debate that I may have posted here. to me, it's clear that non-fiction and in the last mentioned debate, the humanities, are grasping for a solid argument against a more powerful foe....at least, more powerful at this point in time.

Bully-Macklemore definitely has my attention. The "one love" song is quite bold and daring, particularly for that genre of music. Where I live, Creighton University offers their students tickets to contemporary acts. I guess they withdrew the offer when they heard Macklemore was coming to Omaha. That is their right as a private, Catholic institution, but one that I disagree with and find absurd.
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I think I'm going to start a topic to discuss it, because I have tried to read some non-fiction recently that should have been, given the topics, absolutely fascinating, but I just couldn't get past the absolutely horrible way the books were written. Yes I know it was 'serious' non-fiction, but does that mean it has to be unreadable?
 
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