Are you not entertained?

Authoritarians love to use the sports we love.

Jun 10, 2022

BY HENRY ABBOTT

Phil Mickelson and Greg Norman are working for a Saudi-funded golf tour. There’s no mystery as to why they’d take huge paydays … but a more interesting question is: “What’s in it for the leaders of Saudi Arabia?” The answer is that sports have long helped burnish the reputations of politically vulnerable leaders, going back to ancient Rome. LUKE WALKER/WME IMG/GETTY IMAGES

Why don’t you guys want to go into the attic?

After high school, I worked as a waiter in a fancy golf club. The clubhouse attic had all these little individual quarters, almost like hotel rooms. No, you couldn’t sleep over—they were mostly used for storage by the time I worked there. Often it was me who had to visit the attic when, say, we needed more styrofoam cups. Most of the kitchen staff refused to go up there.

After maybe my fifth trip in a week, I again asked why no one wanted to go into the attic.

Because it’s haunted by the ghosts of prostitutes who were murdered up there.

What the …?

A kid whose…

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