Digger Phelps
Auteur van Basketball for Dummies
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- Phelps, Digger
- Officiële naam
- Phelp, Richard
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Anyway, from this book I learned the rules and basic ideas of basketball, and now I can follow the game in a basic way, which is what I wanted. I love For Dummies books.
…. Now I get why athletes get sports scholarships: they could be earning money in the pros, maybe, so you might as well offer them something of equivalent value. To be honest, it’s only strange that we make basketball players take geometry, but don’t make geometry students play basketball. When the academic argues with the athlete, it’s like the husband arguing with the wife, albeit not gendered quite so simply, but still, it’s like: your interests are your interests. My interests…. Are EVERYONE’S interests…. And besides, you can never go into sales if you play basketball. You need geometry!
Education is education, except, sometimes.
…. “But if we open up to those basketball people, it won’t do us any good; they’ll never open up to us: they’ll always just be Those Basketball People, you know.”
(Leo Gura) How would you know?
(Wizard Hermes) How could you not benefit from truly helping others?
…. 🥱 Of course, ForDummies books tend to be a little long (600 pages in my edition!), and like a lot of sports books, it gets a little stat-happy, in this particular case near the end, you know…. But it’s like, At least you know that sport is pure, so pure and nai—ah, innocent, I mean to say.
God knows I could have been a basketball fan at seven or eight and still been that same nai—innocent little boy, you know. As it happens, I think at that age I thought that the New York Yankees were really the only professional sports team in existence. The other teams were just ordinary guys on their days off who dressed up to give the Yankees a sparring partner, you know. Ah, Lordy.
It’s good though. Much easier for me to stop a recording of a basketball game when I’m waiting for a phone call and they call, than a song, obviously, or even a book—I like to read my books in very regular and organized little packets of time, you know…. ⭐️
And incidentally, although obviously you can be a real tough guy and play basketball and use that energy in a good way, I think that women’s sports is just as good, something that basketball has sorta realized and that professional baseball hasn’t even seriously considered, you know.… (meer)