I moved this last week and the only internet access I have is using my neighbors unprotected wireless that disconnects every few minutes. I’ll have a real connection tomorrow and posting should resume on a near-daily basis. Until then, I recommend that the two people who read this site check out this special report from the Economist. I wanted to link it earlier but it slipped my mind, however, it is highly informative.
sports iq
July 29, 2008
The lack of posts these past few days can be attributed to me having finals this week. Starting Thursday I’ll be back to posting daily, with some more thoughts of Theodore Roosevelt and 48 Laws of Power with some sports talk that maybe two people find interesting.
As for the title of the post, it refers to the habit of sports journalists to refer to white players as possessing high [insert sport] IQs. I’m not one to blame everything on racism, but I never really understood the practice. On another website I read they refer to the Minnesota Timberwolves as building “Team Eugenics” on the basis of them signing and drafting many players whose only attribute is their basketball IQ. I don’t think that any sort of bigotry is implied with this phrasing, its just that outside of upside potential and sure-thing, there is a dearth of adjectives to garnish onto players.
Someone needs to develop a better system of describing players. It seems that every writer is forced into using the same ways to describe players for no real reason. What does upside potential even mean?
