The Vantage Point
The command center for The Show Presented By VDG Sports. This is the home of the “Warning Shot”—raw, unfiltered takes that challenge the sports media status quo.
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How to Ignore Sports: A Four Tier Blueprint to Purge the Games
Sports dominate conversation, television, social feeds and streaming. If you want to ignore them, you are up against a machine. A four tier blueprint for stepping away.
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Reforming Sports Haters: Sports Hater 101 & the Method to Change Minds
If you want back into sports banter, camaraderie and fun, you have to stop treating hate like a personality. Sports Hater 101 and a method for changing minds.
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Exposing the Sports Ecosystem: How to Walk Away
Sports talk takes over break rooms, family gatherings, group chats, bars and headlines. It is always on and always loud. How to understand the ecosystem and walk away.
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The 162-Game Trap: Is MLB Truly Dying?
Major League Baseball does not have a boredom problem, it has a self-inflicted structural problem. Why the 162 game season is a trap and whether MLB is truly dying.
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The Chameleon Scripts: Why We Fake Sports Interest
Sports culture acts like everybody must be all in on the teams, scores and hot takes. Why that social pressure makes people fake their interest, and what to do instead.
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Exposing Sports Talk Shows: How to Fake an Argument
Sports debate is supposed to sharpen ideas and give fans a chance to go back and forth. How a lot of sports talk shows learned to fake an argument, and why it works.
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The Art of Mockery: How to Be a Sports Hater
Sports get packaged as sacred theater that unites nations and builds character. If words like touchdown and hat trick leave you cold, here is the art of mockery.
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The Puppeteers: Who Really Controls Sports Trades?
Sports trades are sold as clean, rational, competitive decisions. A look at the public version versus the private one, and who really controls how trades get made.
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How the NFL Alienated Its Core Fanbase
The NFL has spent decades on top of American sports culture, with sacred Sundays and an automatic Thanksgiving. How the league alienated the core fanbase that built it.