Leave 'Em in the Locker Room

[mgc1961]

Old sportswriters are always being asked for tips on big games. Here’s one for the biggest game on the schedule: never vote for a jock.

This is particularly good advice in a political season whose starting line-up includes Chris Dudley, a former NBA back-up center running for governor of Oregon; Linda McMahon, co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment running for senator from Connecticut; and Heath Shuler, a former NFL quarterback, scrambling for a third-term as a member of the House from North Carolina. They are already campaigning to fit into the woeful tradition of Jim Bunning, Jesse Ventura, Tom Osborne, and Vinegar Bend Mizell, athletic role models whose narcissism, ignorance, and conservatism helped them make a seamless transition from entertaining people to exploiting them.

Finish the article at http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175309/tomgram:_robert_lipsyte,_america

[butterfly77]

1. Bush owned..

a baseball team..

[Riftaxe]

2. But he was a cheerleader

Something many on this board do not consider a sport, guess we will just have to despise him for his policies.