For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
He writes – not that you won or lost – but how you played the Game.
Grantland Rice’s poem Alumnus Football eloquently – if perhaps a little cloyingly – uses an extended sporting metaphor to convey a more general philosophy towards life. But in sport, that very idea espoused by Rice – that it’s the taking part that counts – is looking increasingly sepia-tinged. (more…)