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# Poker Mania
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1702/
- Published: 2005-07-15T18:35:05.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-15T18:35:05.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Entertainment, #wpChunk

Dave Kindred is to *The Sporting News* what Rick Reilly is to *Sports Illustrated*: its leading columnist, occupying the back page. Kindred's writing might stand a half notch below Reilly's, but Kindred's left-leaning ideas are visible only between the lines, whereas Reilly wears his on the sleeve, so we prefer Kindred (just as we prefer *The Sporting News*, a magazine devoted to sports coverage, as opposed to *SI*, which is devoted to being cute).

Anyway, while catching up on *TSN* back issues, we ran across a neat column by Kindred about the poker craze. [Link](http://www.sportingnews.com/exclusives/20050705/629980.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> I called my man Chad, who is to poker what John Madden is to football, only funnier and with a mustache.

> "Tell me about poker," I said.

> "There's an onslaught and an avalanche," he said.

> Causing me to duck under a chair.

> "Especially among young people," he said.

> Millions of Americans play. Chad wrote about the Vegas gathering of "poker pros, local heroes, gambling wannabes and dead-money drifters." The New York Times has hired a weekly poker columnist, James McManus, whose first published sentence was a paraphrase of Jacques Barzun's famous line on baseball: "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn poker." The Travel Channel -- the *Travel* Channel -- covers poker.