Dave Zirin Building a stadium during a crisis to house a team that doesn't exist is bonkers. Selling it as a cure for the crisis is even worse.
November 3, 2009 It's rare when athletes respond to a dreary, clichéd question with a stimulating answer. So thank you, LeBron James.
October 26, 2009 Rush Limbaugh is whining about being "blacklisted" by the left, and that stopped him from owning an NFL team--but the reality is he's a liability to the league.
October 21, 2009 Rush Limbaugh called out me and several other writers by name on his radio show because we challenged his efforts to own an NFL team.
October 16, 2009 New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita explains why he's supporting the National Equality March for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
October 8, 2009 A group of Chicago residents is protesting the city's bid for the 2016 Olympics--a disaster in the making to which Barack Obama has given his support.
September 25, 2009 The much-hyped outbursts of Serena Williams and Kanye West have zero in common with the confederate carnival of hate brewing on the edges of the far right.
September 22, 2009 One champion tennis player curses out a judge and shocks the world. Another hurls expletives at a different judge, and the media barely yawns.
September 18, 2009 The sports media and the zealots who run international track and field hit a new low in revealing the results of Caster Semenya's "gender tests."
September 16, 2009 In front of a few rabid supporters, already in full froth about "death panels," Kansas Republican Lynn Jenkins called for a "great white hope."
September 9, 2009 The Western media's handling of the story of Caster Semenya, the 18-year-old South African runner, has been at best simplistic--and at worst repellent.
August 31, 2009 Eighteen-year-old Caster Semenya, a track and field star, is being subjected to a shameful circus of public scrutiny over questions about her sex.
August 24, 2009 Michael Vick is joining the Philadelphia Eagles--and sports-radio nitwits, animal rights activists and even Vick supporters are overreacting.
August 20, 2009 In July, death visited the sport of boxing like a plague, shocking even the most callous observers.
August 18, 2009 To Portland Timbers owners Henry Paulson and his son Merritt, the taxpayers of Portland must look like geese with an infinite supply of golden eggs.
August 11, 2009 He's been reinstated by the National Football League, but there's no guarantee that he will ever see the playing field again.
August 3, 2009 Jacob Bond says he was booted from the football team at Macalester College because he refused to remove his helmet during the national anthem.
July 27, 2009 There were as many African American presidents at the All-Star Game this year as African American players in both leagues' starting lineups.
July 20, 2009 Amid the drama of watching two of the finest athletes of their era clash, the specter of sexism haunted Wimbleton.
July 9, 2009 As the movement for marriage equality and gay liberation gains momentum, we should look with heightened expectation toward the world of sports.
July 6, 2009 Who will be the next to die because our cities spend money on sports stadiums instead of basic infrastructure?
June 29, 2009 An attack on baseball star Sammy Sosa's supposed steroid use neglects to place any responsibility on the front office, ownership or management.
June 24, 2009 Can someone let Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in on the differences between a soccer riot and explosive expressions of dissent?
June 18, 2009 The National Football League could send a powerful message in deciding whether Michael Vick and Maurice Clarett will be allowed to play again.
June 17, 2009 Richard DeVos operates the Orlando Magic like the sporting arm of a radical right-wing empire, whose reach extends from makeup to militias.
June 8, 2009
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