Negative Space: sports
- The Destruction of Title IX
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If you put the government in charge of a desert, in fifty years you’ll have a shortage of sand. If you put the government in charge of protecting women, in fifty years you’ll have government-sponsored violence against women.
- The Great Shark Hunt
- From football to Haight-Ashbury, the Ali-Spinks match and the Freak Power uprising in Aspen, Thompson is one of the few people who truly understood what the hell was going on in the sixties and seventies while they were happening.
- North Dallas Forty
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The “Any Given Sunday” of 1979, and probably as controversial. I was willing to see Nick Nolte in any number of crappy movies after North Dallas Forty (I think I gave up after 48 hours).
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- Connecticut Female Athlete: ‘Transgender Athletes’ Make Sports ‘Unfair’
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“In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women’s state track championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.”
- Reel Life: North Dallas Forty
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In the Sept. 16, 1979, Washington Post, offensive tackle George Starke wrote, “Most of what you see is close to what happens, or at least did happen when Pete Gent played.”
