R.I.P. The Super League
The Super League is no more.
Fans protested; pundits criticized; politicians threatened. The English clubs withdrew. Other clubs withdrew.
(So much for the spiffy website.)
Now the clamor is for owners’ and sporting directors’ heads to roll.
Meanwhile, Florentino Pérez of Real Madrid continues to advocate for the Super League.
(The whole video is worth watching. This issue is so clear-cut, the pundits can’t say a wrong word: even terrible Alejandro Moreno delivers some nice zingers.)
European soccer will change, though. An overhaul of the UEFA Champions League was approved even before The Super League declared its intentions.
This video explains the changes:
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I should say a few things about my family, or at least about the boy. For several days, he has suffered from an ear infection. Sometimes he has been feverish. Today his mood was better, but he broke out in a rash: he appears to be allergic to his medicine.
We took him to Walmart for the first time since the pandemic began, and he was pretty amazed by everything.
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Oh, and I gave my last guest lecture on Alasdair MacIntyre. The students clearly were struggling to read all of After Virtue. Perhaps I ought to have refrained from mentioning other readings, so that the students could focus on getting through the book that had been assigned to them. But instead, I recommended a few shorter pieces that, realistically, they might digest by the end of the semester: “Is Patriotism a Virtue?” and “Politics, Philosophy, and the Common Good.” I think those essays display what is best about MacIntyre’s moral and political philosophy, more or less independently of his history of moral and political philosophy (which, tantalizing though it is, I am inclined to reject).
Fans protested; pundits criticized; politicians threatened. The English clubs withdrew. Other clubs withdrew.
(So much for the spiffy website.)
Now the clamor is for owners’ and sporting directors’ heads to roll.
Meanwhile, Florentino Pérez of Real Madrid continues to advocate for the Super League.
(The whole video is worth watching. This issue is so clear-cut, the pundits can’t say a wrong word: even terrible Alejandro Moreno delivers some nice zingers.)
European soccer will change, though. An overhaul of the UEFA Champions League was approved even before The Super League declared its intentions.
This video explains the changes:
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
I should say a few things about my family, or at least about the boy. For several days, he has suffered from an ear infection. Sometimes he has been feverish. Today his mood was better, but he broke out in a rash: he appears to be allergic to his medicine.
We took him to Walmart for the first time since the pandemic began, and he was pretty amazed by everything.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Oh, and I gave my last guest lecture on Alasdair MacIntyre. The students clearly were struggling to read all of After Virtue. Perhaps I ought to have refrained from mentioning other readings, so that the students could focus on getting through the book that had been assigned to them. But instead, I recommended a few shorter pieces that, realistically, they might digest by the end of the semester: “Is Patriotism a Virtue?” and “Politics, Philosophy, and the Common Good.” I think those essays display what is best about MacIntyre’s moral and political philosophy, more or less independently of his history of moral and political philosophy (which, tantalizing though it is, I am inclined to reject).