#sports tag

[teethburied]

Speed Racer 2008, dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

[littleforestbat]

[orbitalpirate]

the Mets just need to win one game for you tomorrow!!

I am on a high you wouldn't believe right now

[solivagantingrebel]

Weird being a cricket fan because Nepal recently won in a match against England and Australia (in a funky lil tournament outside of the normal formats) and they're in the US playing against Scotland rn. Like okay, if you wanted me to get back into cricket, say less.

[othellho]

— Wide Receiver, Mark Halliday

[tesarions]

my nba team won a playoff series for the first time in ten years btw

[beauzos]

The Rams using a flea flicker to get a touchdown was insane. Stop playing good I’m trying to root for the Buffs u cunts

[sleepingintheflowers]

Belichick out? I feel like I’ve been punched in the gut.

Truly the end of an era. Holy wow.

[cafecitoeddie]

HELP.

Does anyone know hockey????? my coworkers roped me into playing the pool for playoffs and now im like uhhhh...... who ? alls i know are the jersey devils cuz uh hello i live in nj like 15 mins from the prudential center. other than that........ ???

[mojimallow]

gestures at alabama game. what the HELL was that

[teethburied]

“As all professional sports leagues know, it is competitive balance that is vital to the health and profitability of a league. (In the United States the draft system is the most obvious tool towards this competitive balance.) The great sports events of our culture are those that have balanced competition at their heart. For example, one of the most historic and memorable tennis matches in recent history was the 1980 Wimbledon final in which Bjorn Borg defeated John McEnroe. What that match indicated was not that Borg was a great player but just how great in fact he was. Borg needed McEnroe to push him to new heights of achievement. If Borg had routinely won in four sets as at one time looked likely, that match would not stand out in our collective sports memory. But because McEnroe won the fourth set tiebreaker 18-16, he forced Borg to be even better. Whatever beauty we perceive in the realm of sports is dependent on both competitors. In his superb autobiography The Game, Ken Dryden, ex-goaltender for the Montrial Canadiens hockey team, writes of how his greatest moments occurred against Boston teams, that without the tremendous opposition they provided he could not have performed as he did. He needed their competition for the fulfillment of his own dreams. What people are attracted to in sports then is the beauty of collective activity. They are drawn to the process of competition rather than to its results. We see beauty as a property of the personality, of the competitor, in competition. Not apart from the competition but within it. Beauty therefore is a property of the cornpetition which is manifest through the competitors. When we perceive beauty in sports, the beauty of the competitors is thefigure, the beauty of the competition is the ground. In a capitalist society, however, it is the private appropriation of social labor that is the determining feature, and hence in capitalized sports it is the winners who appropriate the results of the process of competition. The winners go on to something better. They will appear again next week. They can convert their winning notoriety into sponsorship of commodities and so reap greater benefits and even more visibility for their appropriation of the results of collective activity. The losers disappear from view, their fate too desperate to be contemplated. As George Allen remarked in reflecting the ethos of U.S. culture: “Losing is worse than death. You have to live with losing.” The more this private appropriation occurs, the more the very existence of this ground, not to speak of its collective character, is suppressed and the more the beauty is presented to us only as the property of the competitors. It is the private nature of appropriation that suppresses the collective character of beauty. It suppresses the beautiful character of the competitive process and reproduces beauty as an “attribute” of the competing subjects. The rejection of competitive sports by critical socialists is based upon a failure to distinguish the process from the appropriation of its results. When we cannot distinguish between the process and the competitors, it will appear to us that properties that belong to the labor process as such belong only to the competitors. The labor process, the cooperative-competitive process, then appears only as a scene in which these pre-existing properties of the competitors simply display themselves. Hence, what is really social labor appears decomposed into merely individual labor.”

– 'Sports and Cultural Politics: The Attraction of Modern Spectator Sports' by Sut Jhally & Bill Livant, first published in Rethinking Marxism in 2009 (x)

[littleforestbat]

this is a really cute photo. why's it look like a pregnancy announcement

[orbitalpirate]

the Mets could make the playoffs this year! this could be it!!!

DUDE I KNOW. WILD CARD IS SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT. I'm a little usept with McNeil gone but I'm staying optimistic

[daegu-flowjob]

Manu looks amazing! I want that shirt so bad! Get it, Dreamhouse Barbie. 💖💜💖

[dialux]

Hello! And welcome to the second blog post I'll be making re: badminton! Not going to keep updating abt this on tumblr forever, but my thoughts on sports are going in this archive so anyone interested should head on over there xxx

[beauzos]

i may or may not watch the Superbowl this year, i once again work that day for only 4 fuckin hours (but ofc the hours the game is going on smh) but in any case i hope KC wins because people would absolutely seethe about it and i think that's funny