Sports writers often feel the need to compensate for that gnawing feeling of self-doubt that they’re not real journalists, like their colleagues over on the news desk, by a deliberately casual allusion to or quotation of Nietzsche. And, of course, all those what-doesn’t-kill-me-makes-me-stronger modern coaching ‘philosophies’ and the apparently superhuman accomplishments of their decidedly un-Corinthinan practitioners [...]
Archive for October 2nd, 2007
Pointless allusions to Nietzsche in sports journalism, pt. 1
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
