The Plank

Weekend Reading, November 6-8

--Jill Lepore on murders and American history

--Mark Bowden on the line between internet dirty-talk and internet sexual predation

--Jenny Diski on Roman Polanski and rape

--If all this is too grim, check out James Poniewozik's short essay on the media's centrist bias

--And, finally, one Yankee fan who is not very happy

TNR on Football

The Moral Equivalent to Football

Why football reflects the true--not the ideal--nature of the American character.

Goodbye to the Bear

Howell Raines: The football coach who was segregationist George Wallace's alter ego.

Linebacker Labor

Football strikes, capitalism, and American life.

Football Morals

College football is not a game. It is war, and every college its own barbarian state.

Becoming a Pro

At the Eagles' training camp, meritocracy really works.

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