Let's Remember Some Guys: American Gladiators Beyond Thunderdome
by David Roth from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#4HES9)
How smart do you want your sports to be, really? Not the athletes involved, who will invariably have the kind of fast and opportunistic and almost automatic intelligence that athletes display in the moment, but the sport itself. Do you want it to be complex and governed by arcane rules, or just so straight-up caveman"