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Tobias PetersonPopMatters Sports EditorAbout Tobias PetersonTobias Peterson is PopMatters' Sport Editors and columnist ("From the Cheap Seats"). He holds an MA in English Literature (with a concentration in Cultural Studies) from George Mason University, where he wrote a thesis on representations of race in professional basketball. He is not, however, an athlete. He's broken his ankle playing basketball, broken several fingers playing football, and, most recently, donated a good deal of skin to a Portland, Oregon hillside will attempting to ride a bike. He once managed to score the winning goal during his youth soccer playoffs -- though it was accidentally against his own team. Having lived in Germany, England, Florida, Virginia, and Texas, his sporting allegiances are widespread and frustrating. He roots most desperately and illogically for the Minnesota Vikings, who drive him to dire amounts of grief and alcohol on a yearly basis. When he's not deconstructing sporting events, he's writing poetry as an MFA candidate at Texas State University. His work has appeared in Analecta, Fiasco, and The Gulf Coast Review. He currently lives in Austin, Texas where, in accordance with local zoning regulations, he plays guitar. FeaturesFeatured Article![]() BooksAllen Ginsberg: The Politics of Ecstasy[28.Sep.07] :. Ginsberg had an eye that took in a world full of lovers and low-lifes -- each, for him, was a song waiting to be sung. ![]() SportsThe Thin (White) Line between Ballers and Brawlers[24.Oct.06] :. Critics of the Miami-FIU fight are condemning the same kind of antagonism, machismo, and mayhem that is regularly reinforced as integral to football as a sport. Columns![]() From the Cheap SeatsBaptized by Fire: The Persistent Politics of the Olympic Games[28.Apr.08] :. The Olympic torch should remain a beacon to those who can appreciate the true power that sports have in forcing us to consider the political reality of the world we all, athletes included, share. ![]() From the Cheap SeatsThe Play's the Thing: Public Shaming of Pro Athletes[6.Mar.08] :. What no one in Congress will admit: morality in sports is pure theater. ![]() From the Cheap SeatsDiscipline and Punish: The Official Functions[7.Feb.08] :. Like characters in some morality play, referees are greeted with boos, taunts, profanity, and, on occasion, worse. ![]() From the Cheap SeatsSeven Silver Linings for 2007[10.Jan.08] :. For the true sports fan, amidst all the drugs, malfeasance, infidelity, greed and inhumanity -- hope is a most important thing. ![]() From the Cheap SeatsNew American Gladiators: The Rise of Mixed Martial Arts[29.Nov.07] :. Initially seen as little more than back alley brawlers scrapping for beer money, MMA has found sporting legitimacy in meteoric fashion – this kind of fighting offers a truly global and democratic way to kick someone's ass. From the Cheap Seats Vaccination Scars: NASCAR in the Popular ImaginationFrom the Cheap Seats Schlock Jock: The Selling of a QuarterbackFrom the Cheap Seats The Tyranny of NumbersFrom the Cheap Seats Who's Doggin' Who?From the Cheap Seats Boo-Ya!: The Sound and the FuryFrom the Cheap Seats The Fall of FoosFrom the Cheap Seats They are the ChampionsFrom the Cheap Seats Let Them Swim! The Office Pool and State MoralityFrom the Cheap Seats It Takes One, BabyFrom the Cheap Seats Coachwhips: Morality Tales of Team LeadershipFrom the Cheap Seats God Made Us #1From the Cheap Seats It's Gotta Be the Shoes, MoneyFrom the Cheap Seats Face-Painters, Cheese Heads, and Other RevolutionariesFrom the Cheap Seats Collect 'em, Race 'em, Trade 'em: Putting the "Fantasy" in Fantasy SportsFrom the Cheap Seats Mass Xceptance: The Too-Discovered Country of Extreme SportsFrom the Cheap Seats World Cup Redux: Innocence AbroadFrom the Cheap Seats The "Other" Football: Watching America Watching the World CupFrom the Cheap Seats How Pretty is Too Pretty? Oscar De La Hoya's Problematic StardomFrom the Cheap Seats One-Potata, Two-Potata: The (Million) Dollar Logic of the NFL DraftFrom the Cheap Seats Am I Not a Role Model? Looking Back and Up to Kirby PuckettFrom the Cheap Seats Spanning the Globe?: The Ever-Shrinking Wide World of SportsFrom the Cheap Seats Where Have You Gone, J.D.?: Pro Sports Fans in a Pomo FluxFrom the Cheap Seats Tailbacks of the World, Unite! Debunking the Myth of the Student-AthleteFrom the Cheap Seats He's All Mine: Laying Claim to Terrell Owens in the Culture WarsFrom the Cheap Seats A Bad Man: Reading Mike Tyson's Body of WorkReviews![]() DVDsPaul Bowles[8.Nov.07] :. The mystery that surrounded Paul Bowles, then and now, seems to be the driving force of his artistic legacy. ![]() DVDsRising Son - The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi (2006)[9.May.07] :. Christian Hosoi was the coolest of the cool, a brash and rowdy pin-up idol whose talent took him to the apex of the skateboarding world during the '80s, only to leave him flailing when the world moved on without him. ![]() DVDsPrivate (2004)[2.Jan.07] :. This film, at its heart, asks the question of how a fundamentally intolerable situation is to be tolerated. ![]() DVDsKrays - Geordie Connection (2004)[6.Oct.06] :. Rather than delving into the multitude of cultural ramifications posed by twin, bisexual crime lords, the film instead is satisfied merely to offer up a hodgepodge of disconnected video clips. ![]() DVDsGrowin' a Beard (2003)[17.Nov.03] :. Growin' a Beard, then, invites us to laugh, but not necessarily to think. DVDs The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001)Film Shadow Boxers (1999)DVDs Joe and Max (2002)TV John DoeTV Presidio MedTV Monday Night FootballDVDs The Three Stooges: Cops and Robbers (2002)TV DonahueFilm We Are Going to America (1992/2002)Film Journeys With George (2002)Film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)Film End of Days (1999)Film Any Given Sunday (1999)Film Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)Film Bicentennial Man (1999)Film Blood Simple, The Directors' Cut (1984/2000)Film The Big Kahuna (2000)Film Butterfly (Lengua de las mariposas, La) (1999)Film The Big Tease (2000)Film Company Man (2001)Film Daniel Takes a Train (Szerencsés Dániel) (1983/2001)Film Diamonds (2000)Film Evolution (2001)Film Everybody's Famous! (2001)Film East Is East (1999)Film Goya in Bordeaux (2000)Film Little Nicky (2000)Film Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)Film Mission to Mars (2000)Film Quills (2000)Film Remember the Titans (2000)Film Steal This Movie! (2000)TV The Bernie Mac ShowTV The Execution of Wanda JeanTV JackassTV Survivor 3TV The XFL |
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