In Grantland, Malcolm Gladwell (the patron saint of jordoncooper.com) writes, And let’s not forget Mikhail Prokhorov. How does he feel about buying into the financial sinkhole that is professional basketball? The blog NetsDaily recently dug up the following quotation from a 2010 interview Prokhorov did with the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti: "We have a team, [...]
Malcolm Gladwell
Column: Looking at some bigger issues
Tomorrow I woke up to a steady stream of email and tweets coming into my Blackberry about my first column appearing today in The StarPhoenix. It’s an introductory column so there wasn’t a lot of original research put into it (I knew the topic pretty well). While today the column appeared on A3, it is [...]
How different are dog fighting and professional football?
Malcolm Gladwell asks some uncomfortable questions about America’s Game. At the core of the C.T.E. research is a critical question: is the kind of injury being uncovered by McKee and Omalu incidental to the game of football or inherent in it? Part of what makes dogfighting so repulsive is the understanding that violence and injury [...]
Happy Canada Day
To celebrate I’ll quote Malcolm Gladwell talking about what he learned about the United States. In history class, in seventh grade (or as we like to say in Canada, grade seven) we learned the story of the American Revolution — from the British perspective. Turns out you were all a bunch of ungrateful tax cheats. [...]
