Bureau of Sports

I know the Winter Olympics are already fast approaching, but I am begging the world of press media – please – no more Bode Miller cover shots. If I am force-fed yet another photo essay featuring Miller’s nipples and/or snow, or view this man’s grimacing and unsmiling face on the cover of one more glossy I will probably toss my cookies.

As if a cover and a photo essay and a 86-inch article wasn’t enough, the Bode-fest known as the inaugural issue of The New York Times Sports Magazine: PLAY also featured slick Nike Ads (They ask “Don’t you want to join Bode?” – my answer is an unequivocal “No” ) featuring graphic likenesses of Miller. Although the Times didn’t stoop to the level of Newsweek or Time magazine’s “It’s Miller Time!” cliches, it was still too much for me.

I don’t need to know if Miller is a “bad boy,” and actually, I doubt that one can really grace the cover of Time magazine and be all that bad-ass.

Despite the Bode-overload, I actually enjoyed PLAY. It’s like the New Yorker and the Times’ Sunday Magazine devoted entirely to sports and sports culture, which does lend an air of repetition, but the stories are well written.

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