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I do not disguise my loathing for professional sports. I find them boring, and their coverage is riddled with clichés. (Why do we have to pretend, for example, that there's a narrative outside the arena, that the player is a good human being who worships Christ, is in a monogamous heterosexual relationship, and helps orphans, and that all that information has something to do with the game? I find that shit completely insincere, and it makes me want to shut the game off before it even starts.) Visiting the blog Freedarko, though, almost makes me want to follow sports: It's intelligent, funny, and every sentence on the site struggles against cliché. If you like sports, you should read it.

And if you like sports, you should go to University Book Store tonight. Freedarko writer Bethlehem Shoals will be reading from his new book FreeDarko Presents: The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, and then there will be conversation with a local sports columnist person named Seth Kolloen. This should be fun.

If you'd like to read about the other events tonight, including Joseph Donahue reading from his newest book of poetry at Open Books and that History of White People author Jen Graves wrote about a little bit ago reading at Benaroya Hall, you should check out the reading calendar, which has been exhaustively checked and double-checked, just for you.