63\u00a0 bar rises 30.17\u00a0 3mph NW\u00a0 dew-point 49\u00a0 sunrise 6:26\u00a0 sunset 8:04\u00a0 Lughnasa<\/p>\n
Last Quarter of the Corn Moon<\/p>\n
The USA basketball team made this Indiana boy proud.\u00a0 Not so much because they won gold, but because they showed that the ego driven individualism of the NBA can flow into team play.\u00a0 The ego driven individualism of the NBA showcases an American individualism on steroids, true; but, aberrant it is not. The NBA demonstrates both the blessing and the curse of this signal American trait.\u00a0 The blessing:\u00a0 peak individual performance.\u00a0 Think Michael Jordan.\u00a0 Bill Russell.\u00a0 Magic Johnson.\u00a0 The curse:\u00a0 destruction of group cohesion.\u00a0 Think Kobe Bryant.\u00a0 Stephon Marberry.<\/p>\n
Basketball and America go together like cricket and India, soccer and Brazil, rugby and England, hurling and Ireland.\u00a0 We should find satisfaction in the skilled play of countries all around the world, since it shows the global penetration of a defining American game.\u00a0 It is not yet time, though, for us to look at the rest of the world and see\u00a0 how far they have traveled in outstripping us on our own court.\u00a0 That time may come, probably will come when China matures as a basketball culture, but it is not now and for now we showed the world again how the game can be played.\u00a0 We have not become Milan, Indiana and Bobby Plump, not by a three-point shot we’re not.<\/p>\n
The gardening part of life here in Andover picks up its pace as the temperature cools.\u00a0 I look forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
63\u00a0 bar rises 30.17\u00a0 3mph NW\u00a0 dew-point 49\u00a0 sunrise 6:26\u00a0 sunset 8:04\u00a0 Lughnasa Last Quarter of the Corn Moon The USA basketball team made this Indiana boy proud.\u00a0 Not so much because they won gold, but because they showed that the ego driven individualism of the NBA can flow into team play.\u00a0 The ego driven … Continue reading As American as Basketball<\/span>