Competition, victory and defeat, the “moment,” the skill, the physics – all timeless themes in sport poetry for 2500 years.
https://www.prx.org/pieces/80952-sport-poetry
Doc and Dennis will talk about the need for encouraging entrepreneurial innovation for young people in Humboldt County, how a combination of skills training, critical thinking and historical/cultural contexts needs to be taught in higher education, adult re-invention and life-time learning skills, how entrepreneur CEO’s like Elan Musk and Howard Schwartz and trying to alter the zero-sum marketplace “winner take all mentality” by acknowledging and shouldering social responsibility in the marketplace, World Cup Drama, an original “What’s it all about?” short story and more…the usual eclectic mix.
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Wily Argentinian fighter in the 1920’s is the first Hispanic to fight for the heavyweight championship and becomes the centerpiece of America’s most famous sports painting in one of the greatest fights of the 20th century.
https://www.prx.org/pieces/113125-luis-wild-bull-of-the-pampas-firpo
Race-car driver Jr. Johnson sets the tone for racing in the 1960’s and embodies the term “good ‘ol boy”
http://www.prx.org/pieces/84656-jr-johnson-the-last-american-hero
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Doc and Dennis will talk discuss a potpourri of topics – popular culture and politics, the current climate of athlete branding, from Pele to Michael Jordan to Fantex and buying stocks in the 49’er’s Vernon Davis to how ” the more things change, the more they stay the same” going back to 5th Century BC Ancient Greece the professionalization and marketing of athletes “back in the day.”
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One of the true superstars in the world sport of soccer, Zinedine Zidane’s technical artistry carried France to its first World Cup in 1998; and almost again in 2006 until his red card due to a deliberate head-butt in overtime became a cultural phenomenon over-shadowing France’s eventual loss to Italy by penalty-kicks.
https://www.prx.org/pieces/100768-zidane-french-football-sensation
