A mechanical illusion, doubly misleading: what Napoli’s footballing ancestors had never achieved.
A philosophical family for whom even dignity is something to be worn with tiredness.
Napoli’s ‘deep time’ in soccer and armchair geology.
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Is calcio irrevocably lost in the dark recesses of violence, or could its idiosyncratic legacy be preserved? Leonardo and Vasari suggest how to deal with the ugliness of war and of history.
Rafael Nadal: the powerful and quixotic master of clay-court tennis.
A bunch of players rumored to be as fast as Halley’s Comet, Bethlehem was also the natural evolution of an impromptu street parade.
