I think many of you know of my intense distaste for Sports Entertainment; I just can't seem to see the point of getting worked up about a bunch of sweaty, spandex-clad men jumping on top of each other, expectorating wildly and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

So you can understand my cognitive dissonance when I discovered that Hunter S. Thompson, one of my favorite writers, is doing a column for ESPN [go.com]. There's dozens of them [go.com]. They're not too bad, either, even if you dislike sports as much as I do, because, like much of Thompson's writing, the subject of the piece is rarely what the writing is about.