In February, 2020, Power Ten, also known as Lake Phalen Community Rowing -- powerten.org --set out to bring youth of all backgrounds together to learn and enjoy the sport of rowing. The club’s slogan: Changing the Face of Rowing.
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The Under Review is dedicated to featuring local and national organizations with social justice, racial equality, and/or the fight against gender or LGBTQ+ disparity, who use sports, writing, or education as their main tool for empowerment and change. It is our honor and pleasure to offer our support to Minneapolis’s own Circle of Discipline with Center Court’s inaugural post.
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I was chatting with a co-worker about the Super Bowl when he said something that disturbed me: “I always liked the Chiefs because they were underdogs. I don’t think I can cheer for them anymore now that they’ve actually won it all.”
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Dear Readers,
As many of you know, the Under Review is based out of Minneapolis and St. Paul, editors on both sides of the Mississippi, in the cities that we love and in cities that are nearly incapacitated with throbbing grief and anger over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
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How my mom and a utility infielder made me fall in love with baseball.
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I know it’s bad because I miss Jim Nantz. I miss the Masters. I miss golf. I miss what could arguably be called the most boring sport on television…
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We have a predilection to abuse
antidepressants we are both tornadoes
of trailer trash who learned to skate
Dear Basketball has never not made me cry. You don't know me, but even if you did this wouldn't surprise you. I’m a natural crier. I cry while watching movies and reading books, through joy and through pain. My best and worst moments have this truth about me in common.
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I have not had a subscription to Sports Illustrated since I was in middle school, but there are three I have purchased off the shelf and saved as a middle-aged adult.
Two of them are from this year.
Both of those have Megan Rapinoe on the cover.
Louisa Thomas is one of my favorite writers. She isn’t one of my favorite sports writers. She isn’t one of my favorite culture writers. She isn’t one of my favorite goddamnit-how-is-this-individual-so-spectacularly-talented-they-get-to-make-perfect-art-for-The-New-Yorker-for-a-living writers.
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