Will a new generation save fox hunting?
It’s fox hunting — not baseball, football or basketball — that provides the longest historical through-line between sport and power in American life.
David Walter
New York journalist writing about politics, sports, movies, design, and the environment. Clips @ NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, Economist, and the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
Greetings From Palau, The Micronesian Archipelago That Baseball Built
KOROR, Palau— What would a country run by baseball players look like? Would it be a sabermetrics-driven technocracy? A clutch-obsessed theocracy? A cup-adjusting macho dystopia?
This isn’t a thought experiment. It’s happening right now in Palau...
As Polo Sheds Its Elitist Image, Teams Crop Up on Campus
In an age when formerly obscure sports like lacrosse have grown in popularity on American campuses, the United States Polo Association is counting on newly formed college teams like Alfred State’s to expand the sport beyond its traditional moneyed enclaves.
Ride Like a Centaur, Win Like a Tiger
When the Princeton and Yale men’s polo teams faced each other in New Haven in February, it would have been natural to cast Princeton as the lovable underdogs: the Bad News Tigers, a plucky gang of orange-and-black longshots.
