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“If you want evidence that football represents American masculinity in its most toxic form, like war or cigarette smoking, we don’t need figures of speech or sociological studies: It is literally killing the men who play it.”

Life of the mind, USA.

Margaret Soltan, September 26, 2014 12:58AM
Posted in: sport

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