Professional athletes and commentators have increasingly used their visibility and cultural capital to make statements and symbolic gestures on social issues during pre-game rituals, post-game interviews and in the interstitial moments in television broadcasts.
Over on Fox News, their conservative commentators have been increasingly becoming enamoured with the Jordanian King, the military dictator of Egypt and Vladimir Putin for weeks.
In the face of political miscues and a recession-bound economy, political commentators have grown increasingly doubtful of the prospects for Mr. Cameron's Conservative Party in a general election expected to be held in the spring of 2015.
It comes not just in the form of book deals, speaking tours and stints as television commentators but also, increasingly, positions as executives and on the boards of companies that do business with the Pentagon and other parts of the government.
And a number of commentators are becoming increasingly concerned about the syndrome.
The games generate vast amounts of data, and once processed, the commentators - and increasingly fans - have access to highly detailed statistics including information about every shot in every match.
This was a fine match, a retort to the increasingly vocal commentators who fear the modern game is heading for an apocalypse of defensive stalemate.
Analysts, commentators and politicians are increasingly viewing President Barack Obama's strategy on Iraq as one step forward and two steps back - or worse.
It is too easy for politicians and political commentators to treat our increasingly incendiary political atmosphere as a product merely of disparate extremist individuals and groups on the fringes of our political system.
Not that there aren't great women economists and, increasingly, economic commentators: Zambia's Dambisa Moyo, Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, and Nina Munk, who has gently delivered criticism of uber-economist Jeffrey Sach's African vision.
