What is being a sports fan really about? Is it just like an addiction to chess or light beer or mashed potatoes? Well, no; it's more than that. It makes you a citizen of a parallel world.A famous sonnet by E. E. Cummings ends: "listen, there's a hell/ of a good universe next door; let's go." With a somewhat different signification, Shakespeare wrote in "Coriolanus": "There is a world elsewhere." But a catchphra…
SOURCE: John Simon at 05:02PM on July 23, 2015