What makes sports so compelling? Beyond the entertainment of watching the amazing physical and mental prowess of athletes as they compete, Marcus, a psychoanalytic psychologist, believes that each sport taken as a totality of circumstances is a parable of life that superbly depicts the existential challenges and dilemmas that ordinary people face as they attempt to fashion the good life. By good life, following Freud, he means a life of deep and wide love, creative and productive work, one that is guided by reason and ethics and is aesthetically pleasing. Most importantly, by viewing sports as moral fables, we are able to access the landscape of diverse emotions and a rich vocabulary in which sports connection to personal and social narratives can be examined. Sports, conceived as magical amalgamations of visual art, theater, civic religion, and science, have become an important resource for many to shape personal and collective identities.