Roundtable+4

The Benefits and Costs of Competition "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing." --Vince Lombardi


 * Core texts**

For our las roundtable on Monday, July 22, please prepare not only your own team's texts for the group presentations but also the other team's texts. To approximate academic communicative competence in our last roundtable, we want to add domain expertise to fluency, accuracy, and range. So, to this end, I will post some comprehension tasks on all the texts designed to create a conversation between them at this page on Saturday, July 20, 1pm. These comprehension tasks will be your final exam in UMEI013, and you will have until Monday, July 22, to finish the exam. In the meantime, you can begin reading the other texts and reviewing the ones we've already done...

1. "Barca," Bob Simon, //60 Minutes,// January 10, 2013 (14:31) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AieW3xIdF0Q

2. "Why Sports Matters," Wilfrid Sheed (HO)

3. "Ueli Gegenschatz soars in a wingsuit" (ted.com) http://www.ted.com/talks/ueli_gegenschatz_extreme_wingsuit_jumping.html

4. "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now," Jason Collins with Franz Lidz (TS, IS blog) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/20130429/jason-collins-gay-nba-player/?sct=hp_t11_a1&eref=sihp#all

5. "Do Sports Build Character or Damage It?" []
 * Team 1 Rana, Sandy, Yasu, Enrico**

6. "The Global and the Local in Sports"
 * Team 2: Anna, Hiro, Roy, Taz,**

7. "Growing Up When 'Everyone Wins'. How Do Kids Learn to Win?" []
 * Team 3: Marc, Majida, Ted, Saud**

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