Hey you must've edited me in because I didn't get an email or a notification -- however, I clicked on it anyway because how could it not be interesting. Reading now.
Oh I always forget that edits don't give notifications. Grrr... Well glad you caught it anyways.
This was amazing, thanks regardless. I thought a lot about this but I'm on my damn phone so I don't want to say it all. One thing -- Grantland has clearly cornered the sports journalism market, and in a sense they've solved it. Notice how a lot of their articles follow exactly the same pattern? (And yes, I know it's not just Grantland, the "non sequitur deep ending" thing is journalism-wide. But they've mastered it.) My favorite part of the article was definitely his reflection on the audience as the barometer of whether something is a sport or not. Incredibly deep thought.