Sporting Polemics Marks Its Five Year Anniversary

As Sporting Polemics ratchets up its first five year anniversary, the attached Carl Sagan sketch seems to sum up Sporting Polemics meandering, eclectic journey as well as anything might. In that one clever little cartoon, one can spot the intersection and overlap between sport, philosophy and politics that the Sporting Polemics enterprise has been clumsily toying with over these past five years. A slightly dilettantish journey to be sure, but no less enjoyable for all that, and perhaps, just perhaps, a coherent narrative begins to emerge.

In an online project that started out to explore just the politics and philosophy of sport, what has emerged is something a tad more ambitious. No need for apologies. Things either grow or fade away. Certainly the parameters of Sporting Polemics have continued to grow from its original more limited aims. Looking back, the literary input, the direct political comment and the strident, sometimes didactic editorials seem to fit happily enough alongside the sporting stuff. And if the direction is occasionally tentative and awkward, the method is crystal clear mercilessly seek out the dialectic in everything without recourse to dogma or ossified ideology. In this respect, success has probably been equally mixed with failure, but always the purpose has been consistent; to unravel the dialectics of sport, to unravel the dialectics of life.

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