The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba
…Batard watched the video of a Cuban dissident momentarily seize ESPN’s broadcasting platform in Havana to yell against the human-rights abuses of the Castro regime, before being swiftly and forcefully apprehended and pushed into a car, Le Batard felt no ambiguity. Nor could he muster words. He choked on tears and motioned for a commercial break to his radio broadcast. Sporting events, like civil religion, can provide pluralistic spaces of resilien…
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