Geoffrey Norman: Pointless and depressing to run through the scandals and the tawdry revelations about the game, every one of which has its own book. Too much is known about steroids, gambling, loveless sex and the rest. Too little about the games. There are no Red Smiths who can make you care about the sport. We are invited, instead, to ponder the wreckage of, say, José Canseco.
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Conference: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art
University of Leeds, Thursday 28 June 2012. Roger Scruton, Jonathan Gilmore, Jenefer Robinson, Gordon Graham, others. For details: The Royal Institute of Philosophy.


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