Dave Zirin London during the Olympics will see "the biggest mobilization of military and security forces since the Second World War."
May 16, 2012 Police brutality and lack of good jobs was the flammable mix that caught fire when Rodney King hit the nightly news.
May 3, 2012 An icon of women's sports--and the sports world in general--is retiring as basketball coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols.
April 25, 2012 Attacks on free speech--from Ozzie Guillen to Professor Loretta Capeheart--are an attempt to strangle voices fighting for justice.
April 16, 2012 When Miami Marlins coach Ozzie Guillen talked about Fidel Castro, it caused a political firestorm in South Florida.
April 11, 2012 The fact that Lebron James used his exalted platform to speak out for Trayvon Martin should be a great source of hope.
March 29, 2012 Trayvon Martin was killed in the same town that almost forced Jackie Robinson from major league baseball half a century ago.
March 27, 2012 The disqualification of Kansas State center Jamar Samuels shows exactly what's wrong with the college basketball racket.
March 22, 2012 Southern Mississippi basketball hit a racist low with chants of "Where's your green card?" aimed at a Kansas State party.
March 19, 2012 Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun appealed and won a looming 50-game suspension for failing a drug test.
February 28, 2012 Outrage erupted when ESPN posted a headline about New York Knicks player Jeremy Lin that read "Chink in the Armor."
February 22, 2012 The shock of the Port Said soccer massacre hasn't produced fear, but has brought a revolutionary impatience back to life.
February 13, 2012 Union and Occupy activists dared to be heard on a day when everyone told them to just shut up and watch the game.
February 8, 2012 Because the Republicans rammed through a "right-to-work" law in Indiana, protest will be part of the Super Bowl scenery.
February 2, 2012 How could Penn State's Joe Paterno, known far and wide as a man of moral integrity, have been content with silence?
January 24, 2012 For more than 25 years, I've tuned in to the bowl games to cap each college football season--but not this year.
January 3, 2012 Hopefully, a new generation of Brazilians will pick up--on the field and off--from where the soccer great left off.
December 15, 2011 Another college sports program that dominates the economy of a region--and another horrifying child abuse scandal.
December 5, 2011 With the league coming off a year of record revenues, the players should be getting more--and instead, they took historic cuts.
November 30, 2011 The media claim NBA players are out of touch with economic reality, but they have more in common with the 99 percent.
November 21, 2011 Student demonstrations at Penn State and UC Berkeley on November 9 spiraled into violence--but the circumstances couldn't be more different.
November 15, 2011 Allegations of a cover-up of child sexual abuse at Penn State show what's wrong with a sports culture centered on money.
November 8, 2011 In speeches at Occupy encampments across the country, Dr. John Carlos has drawn a direct line from 1968 to today.
October 27, 2011 The National Basketball Association owners and Commissioner David Stern are complaining about how bad they have it.
October 3, 2011 The image of John Carlos and Tommie Smith with fists raised evokes a sense of principle and freedom to this day.
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