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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.




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TheSportingSnarf  is a website dedicated to the enjoyable, humorous, and nuanced aspects of the sporting and (to a lesser extent) pop-culture world.  We attempt to touch upon (in varying degrees of print/video length) engaging topics which are not discussed nearly enough. We’d love for you to give us your perspective, network, and participate regularly. But if you’d just like to join in on the mob-mentality and get all sanctimonious on a particular sports figure — head on over to ESPN.com. (Mickey Mouse welcomes you.) Or you can keep it real with us.

When Will It End?

You might not like the way Baltimore is handling it’s situation, but this is really not about just them. How long ago was Trayvon Martin? And how long in general do black people have to be our subordinates? This a country that desperately needed a civil rights movement within the last century to end all […]

David Simon on Capitalism

During a November 2013 speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, he said that America has become “a horror show” of savage inequality as a result of capitalism run amok, and that “unless we reverse course, the average human being is worth less on planet Earth. Unless we take stock of the fact […]

BASEketball Opening Scene

Truer now than ever. Players in the NFL celebrate after every single tackle, tearing their ACLs along the way. NBA benches stand up like every three-pointer will win them their division. They continue to beat up the fastest and most skilled hockey players. Yet, as they say at the end, it is still a worthy […]

LIONS LIVE IN LONDON!

My schedule was yanking and twisting over the last several days to seemingly set me up, magically, for the 9:30 AM ET wake up call that was the scheduled start time for the Lions in London. I woke up at 5:30, had a few Heinekens, and settled in. It was a beautiful day in Michigan, […]

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