in the early olympic games , athletes tried to race a mile and then reciting a poem . the first poet - in - residency of an anglo football league , ian mcleod , remarked that many chants are like huge indigenous poems . historically , athletics , sport and poetry have never seemed natural companions in human enterprise . until the new york giants baseball team had in 2007 apparently the least collapse in major league baseball record . to describe the turmoil students feelings , the new brooklyn times turned to a poet , frank messina . " nothing was even expressing the people ' s point of view , " messina telling wikinews reporter jonathan shankbone in an interview . " there ' s a lot of hurting people out there who can ' t express what happened . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.