Schlafly’s idea of conservatism could move in unusual directions. She contended that Major League Baseball was being ruined by foreign players:
More than a quarter of Major League Baseball players today are foreign-born, with whom our youth are less likely to identify. Some of these players cannot speak English, and they did not rise through the ranks of Little League. These foreign-born players enter on visas and take positions that should have gone to American players . . . Perhaps baseball owners think that foreign players are cheaper and easier to control.
Er, cheaper? Has she looked at those multi-million dollar salaries that both native-born and foreign-born players are getting?
How Matt Centrowitz Won a Historic 1,500 Meters
He went through 800 meters in 2:16.59. Still no one passed him.
.. “Going into the last lap, getting a little jump on the field, I have to take my only opening that I might have,” he said.
Twice previously, Centrowitz said, he had slithered through an opening along the rail at the world track and field championships.
“I guess it’s my patented move now,” he said.
.. No one was better prepared for the final lap than Centrowitz.
.. Centrowitz ran an 800-meter race in Oregon two weeks before the Rio Games and then ran three additional 800s in a post-race workout, in 1:53, 1:49 and 1:47. And he ran a series of 400 repeats in training once he arrived in Rio, completing the last one in 49 seconds,
.. Centrowitz, who has run almost 20 seconds faster in the 1,500
Why Hyper-Masculine Women Are Scary, but Not Fish-Like Men
No one is accusing Semenya of using illicit substances. Quite the opposite: Some have suggested she should be taking drugs in order to bring her hormone levels more closely in line with those of average women.
.. Semenya was raised and identifies as female. But according to a leaked medical test, Semenya’s testosterone levels are three times as high as those of most women, and she has internal testes instead of ovaries.
.. Semenya became accustomed to visiting the bathroom with a member of a competing team so that they could look at her private parts and then get on with the race.”
.. the controversy is unlikely to rest, since athletes are more likely to have intersex features than the general population
.. “The Olympics were an elaborate ritual constructed around the idea that a running race—or a wrestling match, or a ski jump—could tell you something about the virtue of its competitors,”
Is Our Country as Good as Our Athletes Are?
Yet when you watch the Olympics, we don’t seem like some sad-sack country in terminal decline. If anything, the coverage gets a little boring because we’re always winning!
.. Is the greatness of America’s sports institutions reflective of the country’s strong institutions generally, or is it more like the Soviet Union’s sports greatness, a Potemkin show masking national rot