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The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.
Big-money college sports suffer a lot of criticism, but they are symptomatic of larger shifts in the moral economy of higher education.
In Thrown, Kerry Howley explores the fleeting ecstasy of a brutal sport.
Big spectacle games are made for professions of faith, and holy language is exactly the right fit.
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