The Docket 11.30.23 The Agony Of Defeat

The debut season of American Sports Story is our springboard to discuss Aaron Hernandez, Ryan Murphy’s focus on the warping effect of homophobia and whether that fits with this case, how sports let us talk about Larger Issues, the compelling-narrative challenges of CTE, other cases we’d rather see, where the producers might find fresher stories, and why women’s sports get overlooked in true crime as well. OJ, Charlie Hustle, Shoeless Joe and more, in today’s Docket.

show notes

• the Best Evidence RSS feed

• SDB’s review of DAHMER: Monster

• “Out Baseball Pro Responds After Several Tampa Bay Rays Players Refuse to Wear Pride Night Logos”

• “Dennis Hernandez ordered to undergo competency evaluation in federal court in Connecticut”

• a McMahon longread

• Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss’s Death Row All-Stars (Dave Bunting Sr. reviewed it favorably)

• Baseball in Literature and Culture conference

• on Vibe’s February 1994 story on Jordan Sr.’s murder

• Jay Robert Nash at Exhibit B.

• Real Sports is in fact ending

• “The Long Arm Of Mike Nifong, Exposed Again”