Slate has a funny column about the Pistons/Pacers brawl- here is a choice quote-
"I haven't met, nor can I even imagine, someone who actually feels harmed by what happened. ...That we're thrilled by the occasional flash of violence in sports doesn't mean we're one step away from prime-time cockfights. Bill Conlin of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote that the fight showed that "America in general and American sports in particular" are at the same stage as Rome when it was overrun by the "lean and hungry subjects of the Empire." If this is the first sign of the apocalypse, then the ride to hell will be pretty smooth."
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
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