About Ethan Strauss
Sports serve as an anchor of culture and altogether amount to an economy worth trillions. So they matter immensely, even if some think they’re dumb. Sports also happen to comprise one of the few spheres in American life where millions of people from different backgrounds share real-time experiences. In the recent (post 1960s) past, sports served as a space for the nation and its cities to bond over passions that were mostly walled off from the surrounding world. Within the last decade, those walls were breached. The world is now pouring into the arena, and pulling back contents that were once safe in those bastions.