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Playing the Ball
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Sport is meant to be a fun business

OPINION: It’s been called the opiate of the masses, and for good reason. 

NBR columnist Martin Devlin speaks with Hamish McNicol.

Martin Devlin Tue, 29 Nov 2022

Sport is fun. Or it’s meant to be. Sport is entertainment, pure and simple. It’s meant to take our minds off and away from the everyday BS that dominates and suffocates our lives. The opiate of the masses, it’s been called, and for good reason. 

I raise this in the wake of the Black Ferns’

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Martin Devlin Tue, 29 Nov 2022
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