One Sochi, Anti-Gay Russia Line of Attack: Putin's Repressed
In the next weeks and months leading up to Sochi, there is going to be a flood of images, and I imagine, visual provocations pushing back on Russia's primitive stance on homosexuality.
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Blood and Sneakers: Bring on the Magazine Covers
With all the upset over graphic photos, I've been looking forward to the magazine covers to bring perspective and eloquence to the Boston Marathon attack.
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Guy Kills Self at NRA-Sponsored NASCAR Race Days Before Senate Kills Gun Control. Nobody Notices.
First I'm going to show you a select edit from the NASCAR race at the Texas Motor Speedway in Ft. Worth this past Saturday. Then, I'm going to tell you what happened so you can look at the images again and see how horribly ironic they are.
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March Madness
In the spirit of those programs morally and often financially leveraging the institution to enable the athletic program, let's enjoy the NCAA men's title game tonight.
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How Much More is Wrong with the SI Swimsuit Issue
How much more is going on between the desert and the trees.
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Super Bawl
Too often, however, American culture upholds this kind of hypermasculine intensity as a virtue.
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#SuperBowlBlackOut
If it didn't last long, the disruption represented a dose of randomness and real-life in the otherwise narcotic effect of the yearly American bacchanal.
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Let the PR-Orchestrated, Media-Enabled Lance Armstrong Redemption Tour Begin!
I invite you to watch closely over the next couple weeks as we see Lance Armstrong morphed into a contrite, and then ultimately media-vindicated and valued public citizen again.
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The NFL and Newtown: Reflections on a Violent World
The nationalistic imagery stands out for me in the photo because I know how seamlessly it is woven into the fabric of the sport itself, especially in its most muscular, militaristic forms.
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The NFL, Domestic Violence and Mourning Mid-Field
I cannot say how paradoxical it is to see two teams, otherwise tasked to beat on each other, gathered in a prayer circle before tens of thousands of fans in the name of domestic violence and violence toward the self.
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Football’s End of Days?
Going with replacement refs, what has been happened in the NFL is nothing short of apocalyptic, at least according American sports media.
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The Most Unplugged Gabby Douglas Photo: Breakfast of Champions BEFORE Kelloggs Came Calling
I can only wonder what the quick coalescing Team Douglas now thinks of the quirky portrait, sporting that "complicated" expression, relative to "building out the brand."
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Gabby and Race, Sex and Seacrest, Cold War Too! — Visual Politics of the Olympics, Week 1
One week into the 2012 London Olympics, BagNews takes a look at the political optics with sports rhetoric professor Michael Butterworth.
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"Disappeared" Olympic 7/7 Tribute: NBC Perpetuates Myth Terror Only Happens to Americans
NBC perpetuated the myth that terror only happened to Americans. That we can't identify or relate to the loss experienced by other peoples, other nations. That we don't look or feel like everyone else.
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U.S. / NBC to Michael Phelps: Win, or Else!
Michael Phelps's London start emphasizes blatant U.S. and media attitude that anything short of gold makes you a failure, a loser, a disgrace.
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2012 Olympic Opening Ceremonies: Populism Abounds
Just how populist or, dare I say, socialist England or, certainly, the Nike Visa games truly are is highly debatable. But last night was a people's show.
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Not Going for the Gold: Romney and the Dem's Super PAC Olympic Attack Ad
Democrats going hard on Romney but soft on the Olympics. Not a surprise.
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