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Protests in Brazil

What could have provoked such massive protests against a soccer festival from the sport’s most passionate fans?

San Antonio Spurs

The underdogs may have enough in the tank to surprise us again next year.

Protests in Brazil

Most Brazilians feel that the biggest football festival in the world, along with the foundation of their country, is being stolen from them.

NCAA press conference

The annual hoops hysteria known as March Madness generates a tidal wave of revenue—but the players don’t receive a dime of it.

Black September commando

The security mania and spending orgy of our present-day Olympics were truly born that tragic September, forty years ago. 

A Jeremy Lin fan

The NBA point-guard phenom has sparked a national discussion about racism against Asian-Americans.
 

Joe Hill, Joe Pa, Tebow and Wee Brains.

International soccer lost a hero when Socrates, the masterful Brazilian midfielder who captained Brazil’s famed 1982 World Cup squad, died last weekend.

There is a reason the former Mets skipper hasn't worked a Major League dugout in a decade.

Penn State fans

There is a message here about masculine privilege.

Blogs

I’ve never seen a sports documentary that marries political nuance and energy quite like The Trials of Muhammad Ali.

August 17, 2013

A column on Fox Sports makes a ridiculous comparison, but even worse, traffics in a myth about the great Rosa Parks. 

August 11, 2013

The idea of prohibiting Russia from entering the Olympics due to its anti-LGBT oppression makes less sense the more you examine its premise.

August 9, 2013

Three different sports stories share the common thread of reflecting the racism that's surfaced in the Summer of 2013.

August 7, 2013

Major League Baseball—which reaped the financial rewards of the steroids era through feigned naïveté—is now content to scapegoat the players for the current crisis.

August 6, 2013

Any serious discussion about performance enhancing drugs in baseball needs to address the fact that it is Latin American players who are getting caught.

August 5, 2013

Alex Rodriguez is facing unprecedented sanctions by Major League Baseball, which is exactly why the union should have his back.

August 4, 2013

The two most dissected young people of 2013 show how this country eats its young.

July 31, 2013

The decision to go ahead with a new Red Wings hockey arena in bankrupt Detroit says so much more than its backers want us to hear.

July 29, 2013

In response to Aaron Hernandez’s recent arrest, the league may consider checking its players' tattoos for signs of gang affiliation. 

July 26, 2013
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