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Tuesday Ten: Bizarro Edition

The Euros have come and gone, leaving half the world completely unsurprised (“Oh, Spain won.”) and half the world completely surprised (“Oh, Germany didn’t win?”). There were wonderful goals, beautiful fans, tear-jerking anthems, and just a dash of racism to … Continue reading

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What’s Next for Super Mario

Mario Balotelli should be a villain. In the larger narrative of sports as I understand it, he exhibits all the necessary qualities. Irreverent, unstable, sadistic, unpredictable. Despite all my yearning for a satisfactory story arc there, he resists a concrete … Continue reading

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