Whereas, the Cronje affair in cricket was partly because of the relative lack of money in the game - how little he could be bribed for - and of course the sheer pointlessness of even the proper (non-stanford) one day game. (nextleft.org)
It is, in many ways, the sheer pointlessness of many, if not most, of these activities that gives me hope. (treehugger.com)
Julian Fantino flirted with pointlessness. (macleans.ca)