We feel a deep sense of injustice when we learn that our favorite sports player has cheated or when a bad call goes against our team. But is sports the last field in which we have a clear sense of right and wrong?
On December 16 at 92YTribeca, a panel of the country’s best sports writers and reporters—including ESPN The Magazine editor-at-large (and former editor-in-chief) Gary Belsky, Jeremy Schaap (E:60 senior correspondent), Seth Wickersham (ESPN The Magazine senior writer) and Jane McManus (ESPN W writer)—and 92YTribeca’s Rabbi-in-Residence Dan Ain for a free-wheeling discussion about the big issues in sports. That’s on Friday.
If you want to learn more about Gary’s media and culture diet (he subscribes to 26 magazines!), see his answers to the 92Y Culture Klatsch Q&A, below.
Where do you go for news when you start your day?
The New York Times, in print. I’m careful about rushing into digital news sites right off the bat, since in general I think we get too much information too quickly. But if I do go digital its CNN.com.
What are your favorite websites?
WSJ.com, ESPN.com, Fandango, NYTimes.com, FunnyorDie.com, Time.com’s Moneyland, New York, Wikipedia, Economist.com.
How much do you use Twitter and Facebook (or other social networking services)?
On FB several times a day, briefly, on Twitter most days (I tweet and follow).
What book are you currently reading (or the last one you read)? Print or digital?
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman; The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, A Hisotry of The American People by Paul Johnson.
What magazines do you subscribe to?
The Believer, New Scientist, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, American Scholar, Saveur, Science, Nature, Esquire, The Economist, The New Yorker, Chronicle of Higher Education, Time, Newsweek, Bon Appetit, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The Week, Entertainment Weekly, Scientific American, The American Scholar, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, Antioch Review, Crain’s New York Business.
What are your current (or all time) favorite television shows?
All time: “The Rockford Files,” “Gilligan’s Island,” “Iron Chef,” “The West Wing,” “The Sopranos.” Current: “Modern Family,” “Colbert Report,” “The Daily Show,” “How I met Your Mother,” “Top Chef.”
What’s the last movie you saw?
In Time
What’s the last performance (dance/opera/theater) you attended?
The New York Neo-Futurists’ Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind.
What radio shows or podcasts do you listen to?
EconTalk by Russell Roberts, Mike & Mike In The Morning on ESPN, anything with Randy and Jason Sklar.
What’s your favorite piece of art on display in your home?
A print from the photographer Abe Frajndlich.
Where do you go / what do you do to “disconnect”?
Yoga at the Laughing Lotus.
On December 16 at 92YTribeca, a panel of the country’s best sports writers and reporters—including ESPN The Magazine editor-at-large (and former editor-in-chief) Gary Belsky, Jeremy Schaap (E:60 senior correspondent), Seth Wickersham (ESPN The Magazine senior writer) and Jane McManus (ESPN W writer)—and 92YTribeca’s Rabbi-in-Residence Dan Ain for a free-wheeling discussion about the big issues in sports.
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