Gregg Easterbrook

(7 votes)   I view the players as entertainers. Their job is to entertain you, and although an Arizona Cardinals game might not have that effect, most of them do.

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(7 votes)   Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

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(5 votes)   Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

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(4 votes)   Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

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(17 votes)   It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

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(9 votes)   Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

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(9 votes)   I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

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(9 votes)   I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

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(8 votes)   But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

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(8 votes)   Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

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(8 votes)   I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

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(8 votes)   I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

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(7 votes)   And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

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(7 votes)   And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

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(7 votes)   But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

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