Hooray for Sports
25 August 08
by Austin Kelley
“Between the Mitchell Report and the N.F.L.’s Spygate affair, the image of sports as an arena of fun and fair competition has taken a hit lately. Even the Olympics’ opening ceremonies were marred by a controversy over lip-synching. So the recent inauguration, in lower Manhattan, of the Sports Museum of America—a booster’s repository of ‘everything from NASCAR to the Negro Leagues,’ as its founder, Philip Schwalb, likes to say—seemed a fitting rehabilitation project….”
Read the rest of my Talk of the Town story at The New Yorker.