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December 27, 2009
The "Press Box Red" was a top sports writer who led the first sustained campaign to integrate Major League Baseball.
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December 16, 2009
The teachable moment of the Tiger Woods circus: if you front for the worst, don't expect anyone to have your back.
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December 14, 2009
The teachable moment of the Tiger Woods circus: if you front for the worst of the worst, don't expect anyone to have your back.
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November 30, 2009
When the golfer makes deals with dictatorships and unaccountable corporations, all in the name of his billion-dollar brand, he deserves no privacy.
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November 24, 2009
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell seems to understand that when athletes play with a concussion, it is bad for their health--and for business. But do his reforms go far enough?
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November 18, 2009
A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics.
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November 10, 2009
Donald Sterling was just obligated to pay out the largest settlement ever obtained by the government in a housing discrimination case involving apartment rentals.
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October 28, 2009
The NFL is only the highest-profile example of the economic crisis pervading the world of sports.
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October 14, 2009
The real reason Limbaugh is losing his cool is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke.
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October 9, 2009
Rush Limbaugh's long history of racism should be enough to quash his chances of becoming an owner in the National Football League.
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September 29, 2009
Some National Football League players appear to be turning over a new leaf when it comes to gay rights, but a history of homophobia still haunts the sport.
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September 22, 2009
An overwhelming majority of Chicagoans oppose spending any public money on the Olympics. But Obama is lining up with Mayor Daley in support of the Windy City's bid.
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September 15, 2009
Why is Roger Federer's on-the-court meltdown acceptable while Serena Williams's outburst is cause for a national apology tour?
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September 14, 2009
The salacious sports media and the puritanical zealots that run international track and field have joined forces to hit a new low.
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August 26, 2009
The ongoing obsession in the West over Caster Semenya's gender only serves to highlight the understanding and acceptance shown her in South Africa.
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August 21, 2009
South African runner Caster Semenya shouldn't be the one humiliated by "gender testing"--it's the outdated views of athletic officials that are embarrassing.
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August 14, 2009
Michael Vick has a new team, but will Philadelphia Eagles fans welcome him with their proverbial brotherly love?
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August 11, 2009
Eight professional boxers died under dubious circumstances during one month this summer. Why hasn't there been a national outcry for industry reform?
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August 3, 2009
For Henry Paulson and his son Merritt, the taxpayers of Portland, Oregon, must look like geese with an infinite supply of golden eggs.
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July 28, 2009
Public relations is the real reason behind right-wing NFL owners' reluctance to give "ex-con" quarterback Michael Vick a second chance.
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July 16, 2009
Why the absence of African-American baseball players matters.
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July 6, 2009
Sex doesn't actually sell women's sports, so why is Wimbledon still prioritizing pretty players?
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June 26, 2009
Who will be the next to die because our cities spend money on sports stadiums instead of basic infrastructure?
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June 16, 2009
Protests in Iran have little in common with soccer riots, contrary to what Ahmadinejad would have us believe. They are far more serious--and more diverse.
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June 11, 2009
Michael Vick and Maurice Clarett deserve a second chance to play in the NFL--not because they are innocent, but because the system itself is so profoundly guilty.
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June 5, 2009
Progressives looking for a team to back in the NBA Finals should steer clear of the Orlando Magic, since their owner, Dick DeVos, is a powerful right-wing zealot.
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May 29, 2009
To gauge her judicial temperament, take a close look at Sonia Sotomayor's rulings in sports. Left-wing in theory, right-wing in practice--no wonder she clicked so smoothly with the Obama administration.
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May 21, 2009
Millions will be spent to bring the biggest event in sports to the Superdome, while the victims of Hurricane Katrina remain on the sidelines.
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May 13, 2009
The family of the late Pat Tillman knows the ugly truth about Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal even if President Obama doesn't.
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May 8, 2009
Major League Baseball continues to think that embarrassing individual players like Manny Ramirez is the best path to cleaning up the sport.
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May 3, 2009
In a victory for the little people, a long-shot little horse from nowhere overcomes 50 to 1 odds to win the Kentucky Derby. But wait. Look who owns part of the horse.
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April 30, 2009
A promising young athlete causes a furor because he's leaving high school to play pro basketball. What's so wrong with that?
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April 21, 2009
The New York Yankees are forcing the owner's religious and political beliefs on every fan admitted to its $1.5 billion cathedral of baseball. How long can they get away with it?
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April 16, 2009
Despite all their well-deserved success, the UConn women's basketball team struggles in the shadow of their megalomaniacal coach Geno Auriemma.
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April 7, 2009
The vanquished Spartans of Michigan State have left a lot of people accustomed to limping through this recession walking tall.
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April 1, 2009
It's time to come out of our political closets and say openly that another world is not only possible but necessary.
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March 19, 2009
Why does the president of the NCAA think it's fine for TV networks and gamblers to profit from the Final Four, but not the players?
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March 12, 2009
The embattled NBA Hall of Famer is perhaps the only figure who can expose "America's Toughest Sheriff" as the abusive bigot he is.
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March 4, 2009
This is not about steroids, or an arrogant athlete getting his comeuppance--it's about the mess Bush made of the Justice Department.
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February 24, 2009
The case against Barry Bonds has begun to resemble the big marlin in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. In the end, all that may be left are the bones.
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February 9, 2009
When it comes to steroids, no one, as A-Rod's alleged paramour Madonna might say, is like a virgin.
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February 2, 2009
In America's first hard-times Super Bowl, superb athletes and a thrillingly played game rose to the challenge. Maybe the country can, too.
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January 26, 2009
The notoriously apolitical Tiger Woods's presence at Barack Obama's pre-inauguration concert could have been momentous. But it wasn't.
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January 8, 2009
A sports arena and a basketball team recently have become the unlikely setting and target of protests against Israel's attacks on Gaza.
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