thinking again about TvTropes and how itās genuinely such an amazing resource for learning the mechanics of storytelling, honestly more so than a lot of formally taught literature classes
reasons for this:
ļæ¼basically TvTropes breaks down stories mechanically, using a perspective thatās notā¦ABOUT mechanics. Another way I like to put it, is that itās an inductive, instead of deductive, approach to analyzing storytelling.
like in a literature or writing class youāre learning the elements that are part of the basic functioning of a story, so, character, plot, setting, et cetera. Youāre learning the things that make a story a story, and why. Like, you learn what setting is, what defines it, and work from there to what makes it effective, and the range of ways it can be effective.
hereās the thing, though: everyone has some intuitive understanding of how stories work. if we didnāt, we couldnātā¦understand stories.
TvTropesās approach is bottom-up instead of top-down: instead of trying to exhaustively explore the broad, general elements of story, it identifies very small, specific elements, and explores the absolute shit out of how they fit, what they do, where they go, how they work.
Every TvTropes article is basically, āHere is a piece of a story that is part of many different stories. You have probably seen it before, but if not, here is a list of stories that use it, where it is, and what itās doing in those stories. Here are some things it does. Here is why it is functionally different than other, similar story pieces. Here is some background on its origins and how audiences respond to it.ā
all of this is BRILLIANT for a lot of reasons. one of the major ones is that the site has long lists of media that utilizes any given trope, ranging from classic literature to cartoons to video games to advertisements. the Iliad and Adventure Time ARE different things, but they are MADE OF the same stuff. And being able to study dozens of examples of a trope in action teaches you to see the common thread in what the trope does and why its specific characteristics let it do that
I love TvTropes because a great, renowned work of literature and a shitty, derivative YA novel will appear on the same list, because theyāre Made Of The Same Stuff. And breaking down that mental barrier between them is good on its own for developing a mechanical understanding of storytelling.
But also? I think one of the biggest blessings of TvTropesās commitment to cataloguing examples of tropes regardless of their āmeritā or literary value or whateverā¦is that we get to see the full range of effectiveness or ineffectiveness of storytelling tools. Like, this is how you see what makes one book good and another book crappy. Tropes are Tools, and when you observe how a master craftsman uses a tool vs. a novice, you can break down not only what the tool is most effective for but how it is best used.
In fact? There are trope pages devoted to what happens when storytelling tools just unilaterally fail. e.g. Narm is when creators intend something to be frightening, but audiences find it hilarious instead.
On that note, TvTropes is also great in that its analysis of stories is very grounded in authors, audiences, and culture; itās not solely focused on in-story elements. A lot of the trope pages are categories for audience responses to tropes, or for real-world occurrences that affected the storytelling, or just the human failings that creep into storytelling and affect it, like Early Installment Weirdness. There are categories for censorship-driven storytelling decisions. There are ālineagesā of tropes that show how storytelling has changed over time, and how audience responses change as culture changes. Tropes like Draco in Leather Pants or Narm are catalogued because the audience reaction to a story is as much a part of that storyāthe story of that story?āas the ācanon.ā
like, storytelling is inextricable from context. itās inextricable from how big the writersā budget was, and how accepting of homophobia the audience was, and what was acceptable to be shown on film at the time. Tropes beget other tropes, one trope is exchanged for another, they are all linked. A Dead Horse Trope becomes an Undead Horse Trope, and sometimes it was a Dead Unicorn Trope all along. What was this work responding to? And all works are responding to something, whether they know it or not
An incomplete list of really useful or interesting reads from TvTropes.
please note that yes many of these are concepts that exist elsewhere and a few are even taught in fiction writing classes but TvTropes just does an amazing job at displaying the range of things that can be done with them
legitimately so much of the terminology I use to talk about storytelling, and even think about it in my own head, i learned about from TvTropes
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Watsonian vs. Doylist
Trope Tropes, for all the ways tropes are used, deconstructed, subverted, and played with.
The Oldest Ones in the Book, which is basically my favorite thing on the entire Internet
Punk Punk, for -punk subgenres
Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness, Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
The Weird Al Effect is a fun one
Chekhovās Gun, Chekhovās Boomerang, Chekhovās Skill, and further variations
Law of Conservation of Detail
Law of Conservation of Normality
Anthropic Principle
Word of God, Death of the Author
Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness
Genre Savvy
Flashbacks and Chronology breaks down all the ways you can handle chronology in storytelling
Show, Donāt Tell is a very good breakdown of what is showing, what is telling, and how both can be used effectively.
Lampshade Hanging
Noodle Incident is just fun imo
Genre Title Grab Bag
Fridge Horror
Rule of Cool, and also Cool of Rule
The Smurfette Principle
The Hays Code - not a trope but a very good breakdown of how the Hays Code affected storytelling in film
this is just a really short list of examples I encourage people who write or otherwise create stories to browse around on this site itās so useful
Theory of Narrative Causality is one of my personal favorites, because it's kind of fun when a story acknowledges that things are happening in the story because that's what makes it a good story.
Also Applied Phlebotinum, because sometimes you don't need to know how something works, it just does, and that's all that matters for the purposes of the narrative.
will and ryan, both massachusetts natives, meet at 9 years old playing against each other in junior hockey, become buddies
2021-2022
gabe, will, and ryan become best friends playing together with the USNTDP u17 program in plymouth, michigan
will and ryan live together with will vote, who theyād known from childhood as well. will (smith)ās parents buy a house 15 minutes away from the program, and during their time at the program will smithās and will voteās mothers would alternate staying with the boys for two weeks at a time, flying back and forth from boston to michigan. both of ryanās parents were working (his mother as a nurse!!); ryan stayed in the basement of the house
gabe was living with his mother. his father, yanic perreault, was an nhl player and at this point was working for the blackhawks organization. he was generally too busy with his work and with gabeās older siblings to be super involved in his hockey stuff (not that he wasnāt involved, just less so), and so gabeās mother july took the responsibility of looking after gabe and doing a lot of his coaching & managing stuff. generally though his parents were a hugely essential support system for him through his childhood and continue to be.
important to ME: gabe is originally from sherbrooke, quebec, but his family moved to hinsdale, illinois for yanicās job with the blackhawks when gabe was in about third grade. he started learning english then and presumably only started being called gabe around this time too!! (gabe isnāt really a common nickname for gabriel in quebec - his mom calls him gaby or gab.) the move was early enough in gabeās life that he considers himself more american than canadian (his identity as a player is american of course, he plays for team USA), and canadian media about him reflects that often, for example talking about him vs. mack celebrini!! you can see that in the above source, which is in french but the autotranslation isn't bad! tl;dr itās a very interesting cultural identity
2022-2023
will, gabe, and ryan play together again on the programās u18 team. they play on a line together, will strictly as a center (!!) and ryan and gabe on his wing. theyāre explosive and very effective together
they win gold at u18 worlds
gabe sets a new NTDP record for points in a single season with 132. the previous record was auston matthewsā 117.
ntdp notes
during their time at the program, they played against macklin celebrini, who was on the chicago steel and already a force to reckon with.
they cared a lot about one another. there was a truly crazy level of love and affection in their trio during this time and you could tell, with the way they talked about each other in media availability especially.
summer 2023
they all commit to boston college. will and ryan had been pretty set on it (massholes !!, & willās family has been going there for fourteen generations) but gabe took some convincing just because he wasnāt sure where was best or if the college route was right for his game. eventually willās pestering worked, though, and he committed with them
they get drafted to the nhl! will is fourth overall to the san jose sharks (the highest draft pick in BC history), ryan eighth to the washington capitals, and gabe twenty-third to the new york rangers
gabe was snubbed - will and ryan agree, often drove in his IQ and his technical skill; how he sees the ice. ryan called him the smartest player in the draft. i wonāt complain though cause iām a rangers fan lollll
a few more NTDP friends commit to BC: aram minnetian (125th to the dallas stars), drew fortescue (90th to the new york rangers), and will vote
someone else commits to a boston school this yearā¦ macklin celebrini. heās seventeen years old, the youngest player in NCAA hockey and probably the best. he commits to boston university, who BC plays often and has a huge rivalry with.
2023-2024
BC time!!!
gabe and will room together. they like to eat milk and cookies as a snack. (cough cough)
the three of them major in communications, because when youāre a high draft pick you donāt really NEED your degree lol! ryan actually goes to class & tries but gabe and willā¦ not so much. but itās okay.
important to note with that piece their socioeconomic and familial backgrounds!! ryan wasnāt poor by any means, but his parents were both working, and his relationship with his older brother john is very tough love focused. while will also has emphasized a need for ātough loveā during his childhood and gabe is a notorious hard worker, i think the importance of hard work in school as a fallback from hockey kind of escaped both of them in a way that it really didnāt for ryan. we see that manifest later in the lore as well! just an interesting thing to note i think.
will and ryan have all of their classes together, and all but one with gabe (gabe takes french as his language because heās already fluent). fun tidbit, one of their classes is a theater class and they all get assigned backstage crew instead of acting parts
this is very much a word of mouth thing, but iāve heard that during this time, ryan and gabe were very much so held together by their attachment to will. a trio because they were both duos, and they were obsessseeeddddd with him
they have a pretty great season. with the three of them on the first line, BC becomes elite offensively, and they hold the #1 spot in the NCAA a few times during the season.
they go to world juniors over new years and win gold for the US
on january 26th and 27th, they face BU in the ābattle of comm aveā for the first time as the #1 (BU) and #2 (BC) schools. on the 26th, BC wins 4-1 with both goals by gabe and ryan (gabeās assisted by both ryan and will, ryanās assisted by gabe)
on march 23rd, they face BU in the hockey east final. BC wins 6-2, with four goals from will (one assisted by gabe, one assisted by ryan) and a goal from gabe. macklin celebrini (playing for BU!) scored one of BUās goals 14:45 into the third period, when BC is already up 5-1. in true macklin fashion, he doesnāt celebrate, he just stands there and stews in his frustration lol. BC wins the hockey east championship and will earns tournament MVP.
on april 13th, BCās seasons ends in the national championship final against denver. They were shut out 2-0. ryan cries and will helps him up off of the ice. (if anyone has this gif credit pleeeaaaaseeee let me know! i can't seem to find the post for the life of me.)
again, you could tell throughout this season how much love they had for each other.
summer of 2024
macklin celebrini goes first overall, as a hockey prodigy and beloved savior, to the san jose sharks
will and macklin sign their entry level NHL contracts to the san jose sharks
2024-2025
gabe and ryan are back at BC to redeem themselves from the loss in the natty finals and get some more development before signing. without will, their new center is james hagens, an incoming freshman and prospected high draft pick. ryan becomes an alternate captain!
gabe and ryan (along with hagens and some other BC and NTDP friends) go to world juniors and get their second consecutive gold! ryan is the captain, and gabe is an alternate.
will, of course, isnāt there. heās in san jose tearing it up!
ok, not really tearing it up. he has a bit of a slow and clunky start, and of course the sharks wereā¦ really REALLY bad this season. but that isnāt whatās important: whatās important is his relationship with macklin celebrini. they get crazy close immediately, a dynamic and iconic duo; very soulmate-ish! theyāre just, likeā¦ obsessed with each other, and they seem to really understand and feel at home with each other. and theyāre FUNNY, theyāre having a lot of fun even though their team sucks. theyāre like. the best friends ever
theyāre roomates on the road and they like to order milk and cookies. sounds like anyone we know???????????????? lol??????????????????
gabe and ryan donāt have so much fun. BC isnāt bad but they certainly arenāt as good as they were with will there, and theyāre choking a lot more in important or emotionally charged games.
on january 27th, mack walks into the sharks game wearing willās jersey from when he scored four goals in the hockey east final vs. BU. theyād made a bet that weekend when BC and BU faced each other, the penalty for losing was wearing the other guyās college jersey. (they win that gameā¦ which was rare lol)
this comes up again in february, during four nations break, when BC and BU face each other in the beanpot. mack and will go to the game together - thereās talk about another jersey bet
BU wins the beanpot. gabe opens the scoring with a ryan assist, but that ends up being BCās only goal of the game. the final score is a 1-4 BU win.
interestingly, will isnāt spotted at all with former teammates or with gabe or ryan. he watches the game from a box and he isnāt spotted going out afterward. this doesnāt necessarily mean he didnāt see the guys, but itās certainly weird considering how close he was with gabe and ryan especially and his long standing connection to the school! in contrast, mack (whose only connection to BU is that his brother plays there and that he played there for a season) reads BUās starting lineup alongside lane hutson of the canadiens, and then is spotted out with the team, dancing and drinking his beloved white girl high noon
it takes a while for the shoe to drop, but eventually will wears mackās jersey for walk in - before the march 22nd game against the boston bruins (willās childhood team). (they win this game too)
BC falls short from the national championship again, this time losing in the semifinals to denver (the same team they lost to in the finals the year before)
gabe and ryan sign their NHL contracts a day or two after the loss
will reposts both instagram posts announcing their signing on his story, but lenoās is captionless and gabeās has a red heart
gabe goes to new york of course, who had a pretty shitty season. when he signed, they were gunning for a wildcard spot which they ultimately didnāt get. he only played five games with them and didnāt look too bad on the ice, but it was somewhat apparent that he wasnāt quite ready for NHL caliber play. he does start to bond with his teammates, though, notably (to me? to everyone?) vets like chris kreider (who was traded after 14 seasons with the rangers that june), vincent trocheck, and younger guys like othmann and matt rempe
ryan goes to washington, where history is actively being made. he scores his first goal (an empty netter) in the game where ovi ties gretzkyās scoring record (will doesnāt repost the first goal graphic, though ryan had posted his back at the start of the season), and of course is there when ovi breaks it. all of the caps are obsessed with him - he lives on a floor of pierre luc duboisā house with him and his fiance, alex ovechkin calls him babe and baby and little kid leno, brandon duhaime barks in his faceā¦ he fits RIGHT in with them.
the caps go to the playoffs, but ryan doesnāt really make an impact
summer 2025
the sharks obviously donāt make the postseason, so will goes to sweden for worlds and on may 25th, wins gold. he hangs out a lot with matty beniers and zeev buium (who pkayed for denver both times they beat BC btw!) and gets covered in champagne of course. while in sweden, he hangs out with mack (whoās playing on a line with crosby for team canada).
on may 29th, ryan finally posts on his instagram with a little tribute to BC and his teammates there. youād think that with all of their history, will would be featured in the post, right? WRONG!!
in ryanās post we have gabe, james hagens, will vote, teddy stiga. no will at all. the first image is one of gabe and ryan together on the ice, actually, in a very similar orientation to will and mack in willās end of season photodump! interesting interestingā¦
gabe comments pretty much immediately: āBrother for life , love you lean ā¤ļøā. this is significantly more heartfelt than anything heās commented on willās posts, and that along with their behavior through the season & gabeās presense in the post without will indicates that thereās been a shift with the tree of them - rather than will as a holding factor and guy to orbit, ryan and gabe are a duo without him now. just interesting to meeeee!!
a few hours later, will comments on the POST HE ISNāT FEATURED IN: ā6934 š„²ā. those are their college numbers. will 6, ryan 9, gabe 34. Cool! Great!
on june 5th, gabe posts a dump on instagram. it has both ryan and will in it, ryan twice in candids and will once in a more posed photo that comes across as a little bit uncomfortable.
on june 27th, will and zeev buium work at the NHL draft, interviewing picks as they leave the stage. will talks with james hagens about hagensā suit, which was made by gabeās brother who owns a tailoring company, and about BC, and he speaks with michael misa (2nd ovr. to the sharks) briefly but Kind Of rudely. not much of note here but interesting if you make it interesting!
will has (presumably a lot of) BC guys over to his familyās house on cape cod for the fourth of july, but we only know for sure that ryan and gabe were there, because on july 9th, gabe posted a picture of the three of them in front of the house Visibly Blasted and in all of their conservative white man glory. so now theyāre friends again apparently! yay! will comments ā34-6-9ā (which, ouch), and matt rempe (crucially building a relationship with gabe!) comments āladies loved this oneā. things to chew on.
on july 15th, will and ryan go to the same coldplay concert in boston. presumably together, but i guess it could be that they both just happened to be there because they both are white men who were in MA at the time
on july 18th, the rangers post matt rempe micād up at a junior rangers practice. he and gabe are there together, coaching these kids, and they have maaaajor heart eyes for each other - kind of continuing what we started to see at the end of the 24-25 season. they have some really sweet interactions in the video
july 24th, ryan and will participate in the shoulder check showcase. theyāre on opposing teams, but they do have some cute little friendly moments! gabe was also named as a participant but ultimately wasnāt there for unnamed reasons.
at the end of july, mack is invited to train in nova scotia with sidney crosby and nathan mackinnon. he invites will Of Course, so they have a cute couple days up there!
all three of them are spotted together with other members of BCās hockey team at the BC football season opener on august 30th
on september 3rd, will posts a summer dump which is completely sans ryan and (!) mack. gabe is there, notable in a group BC hockey image FROM THE AUGUST 30TH FOOTBALL TAILGATE. which ryan was at. thereās also a picture of will and gabe in a pool, presumably at willās cape house.
also on september 3rd, gabe and ryan participated in the NHLPA rookie showcase together, and seemed pretty typically affectionate towards one another, especially ryan in his media availability.
2025-2026
gabe fails to make the rangers roster out of dev camp, and gets sent down to the hartford wolfpack. rangers coach mike sullivan says he wants him to get faster, stronger, and more confident. gabe accepts that; itās clear that his confidence is down but heās determined to do whateverās best for his career
ryan makes the capitals roster - doesn't even attend dev camp
will is obviously already on the sharks roster, but not as a center - now, heās going to play on macklinās wing. this is a big thing: his entire life heās been a center, and thereās a huge demand for centers right now! heās putting himself in a disadvantageous position just so he can play on a line with mack. interesting interesting interesting.
ryan does pretty well! heās not incredible but heās certainly not awful.
gabeās a little rocky in hartford at first, but quickly becomes their best guy on the ice. heās too skilled for the AHL, itās obvious, but when he gets briefly called up to the NHL in november, he doesnāt look ready, and gets sent back down after a few games
good to note: in new york, gabe is getting close with rempe & with noah laba, also with alexis lafreniere who he speaks french with. in hartford, heās getting close with brendan brisson, another young guy with a father with a legacy (pat brisson, a very notable agent). also, matt rempe gets injured when the sharks come to new york in mid october, heās out till december
ryan is injured in early december
will is also injured in early december, mack gets in a bit of a scrum with the guy who did it
gabe gets called up a bit before christmas, scores his first NHL goal on december 18th. will posts the graphic on his story, ryan doesnāt!!!!!!
on december 23rd, the rangers and capitals play each other. somehow it works out that thatās the day ryan comes back from injury (!!), and he and gabe interact briefly on the ice - gabe tries to hit him and just stumbles is most what happens. the rangers win 7-3.
after the game, a reporter asks ryan if he and gabe talked at all, and ryan seems annoyed & shuts down a bit. āa few words,ā he says. āthatās it.ā soā¦ trouble in paradise? itās strange because ryan has always been happy to talk about gabe in media availability; heās always been the first one to talk about how great at hockey he is and how heās a good friend. they were so close through will (in a sense) abandoning them, and theyāve been friends since they were 16. they didnāt even get coffee?
will, still being injured, misses playing ryan when the capitals come to san jose, but the two of them get dinner the night before the game.
other things
will and ryan are notoriously catholic, pray before games and wear crucifixes and shit. will added a rosary ring to his chain alongside the cross and st. christopher pendant this season, actually, which is interesting!!! gabe, though, itās a little bit more unclear withā¦ he doesnāt wear a crucifix, instead wears a necklace with whatever number heās using at the time. that number ALWAYS derives from his fatherās 94!!!!!! of course the presence of a crucifix isnāt the only deciding factor to whether or not someone is catholic, and his being quebecois and just a hockey player generally points towards catholicism, but the absence of a crucifix points me to think that maybe heās not religious or at least isnāt as devout as the other two.
and just to drill it in again: these three guys really, really loved one another. they respected one another, and thought incredibly highly of each other as players, linemates, teammates, and people. for a long time they justā¦ they ALWAYS talked about how great the others were!!! everything was about each other!!! and after will left BC, that started to stop. it was still there between ryan and gabe, but at the start of the 25-26 season even that ended. so the questions are essentially about what happened that couldāve outweighed the devotion to each other
and that's basically where we're at! let me know if it looks like i made any mistakes & please send asks or messages with any questions or to discuss!! i can also provide any sources if they aren't linked.
The full interview is now available on YouTube. When players take a leave of absence, it is not a decision that is taken lightly and they are often going through a difficult situation, whether it be personal or family related. We need to support players prioritizing their own health, wellbeing, and family, and we need to respect their privacy. They are just as human as me or you. Those who started and circulated the rumors should be ashamed and ostracized.
Do you have any hockey writing (essays or fiction) recommendations....in the vein of hanif's there's always next year or david foster wallaces tennis essays (or anything adjacent to it lol)
hmm I do not but I wonder if @sequestering or @patrichornkissed might?
I haven't read david foster wallace's tennis essays, but I'm wondering if some of Kent Russell's writing would be in that vein as far as more literary sports writing rather than investigative (like Rick Westhead) or the types of articles put out by beat reporters. His essay Enforcers: Soul on Ice rewired my brain. Additional article-essays of his that may align with what anon is looking for:
Notes on Hockey
Fighting With Their Fists to Put a Period in a Basket
Against the Butterfly
Sid/Ovie (part 1) and the follow up Sid/Ovie (part 2)
walk-up-songs has previously recommended the book Bodies Built for Game: the Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing. This collection covers all sorts of (predominantly north american) sports, but has several essays focused on hockey including āThe Sum of Our Doingā by Holly Wendt, "The Condition of being a Sports Fan" by Sue Hyon Bae, "Off Sides" by Susan Briante, and Scorekeep by Tommy Orange (this one is about roller hockey, but I'm including it on the basis of I loved his writing in There There).
Hanif Abdurraqib is an essayist of all time. there's always this year is a love letter to a place as much as it's a love letter to basketball, and nothing I've come across in hockey writing has captured that sense of place in the way his writing does.
people in my life messaging me to ask if i'm watching heated rivalry and i can't tell them no i'm actually reading written porn of real hockey players who are far uglier and more evil
Do you have any hockey writing (essays or fiction) recommendations....in the vein of hanif's there's always next year or david foster wallaces tennis essays (or anything adjacent to it lol)
hmm I do not but I wonder if @sequestering or @patrichornkissed might?
oooh what a fun request. hanif abdurraqib and david foster wallace have that rare, winning combination of (a) an intimate understanding of the game and (b) a very successful career in broader literary circles - which does seem to be the recipe for some of the best literary sports writing out there. sadly i don't think hockey has a real equivalent but would agree that kent russell is in the same vein. @patrichornkissed has done a great list of some of his best. a few other essays which i think broadly fit that category are:
'The Meaning of Hockey' by Stephen Marche (12 November 2011) in The Walrus
A reported 16.6 million Canadians watched the gold medal game, making it the most viewed broadcast in the countryās history. Over 80 percent of Canadians watched some part. A graph released by the Edmonton water utility,Ā EPCOR, showed that usage virtually ceased during the three periods of play, then spiked during the intermissions. If death waits on hockey in Canada, then so will other bodily functions.
'The Hockey Sister' by Sarah Miller (7 July 2021) in The New Yorker
I texted my brother a few days ago to let him know that this essay was more revealing of our childhood than I had planned. He replied:
Iāll be fine
Iām a hockey player.
'Hockey: The Great Literary Shutout' by Don Gillmor (12 February 2005) in The Walrus
Hockey is our mythic game, as almost every hockey book states somewhere. It sings in our blood. Yet, unlike boxing or baseball, it has not produced a mythic literature.
Excerpt from 'Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do' by Studs Terkel (February 1997)
Thereās an irony that one get paid for playing, that play should bring in money. When you sell play, that makes it hard for pure, recreational play, for play as an art, to exist. Itās corrupted, itās made harder, perhaps itās brutalized, but itās still there.
'Skate Fever' by Jay Griffiths (Undated) in Lapham's Quarterly (which is about skating not hockey but is very beautiful)
Like most things in life, skating is best done openhearted. Trust each foot in turn, let your attention and your weight glide long on each leg. Lean forward into it all. Trust your wings. Trust the ice, too, but stay observant of its moves and cracks, try to read its history of thawing and refreezing and buckling.
And a final bonus one: 'Peace, Love and Hockey in Belfast' by Michael Farber (21 March 2011) in Sports Illustrated (which is not particularly literary and is written by a career sports writer but is very special so i will include regardless)
The Giants are on a mission, fueled by something more profound than testosterone and power plays. Since they were founded more than 10 years ago, they have been guided by the audacious conceit that their inherently violent game can, in some tangible way, be part of the peace process.
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