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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

If the new Jackie Robinson biopic follows standard Hollywood procedure, here's the complicated legacy it'll whitewash.

April 1, 2013

Baseball is neither poor, nasty, brutish nor short—at least, if sports fans have their way.

March 29, 2013

Or, what does it mean to be a man? Eve Ensler talks to a panel of men, including Dave Zirin, Jimmy Briggs and Tony Porter, on the role men can play in ending rape culture.

March 27, 2013

Major sports leagues should enlist themselves in the funding of curriculum to break the connections between jock culture and rape culture.

March 27, 2013

Today gave airtime to former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky—which, for his victims, only twists the knife further.

March 26, 2013

King James is hinting that he will leave the Miami Heat and return to Cleveland—a move that would be felt far beyond the sports world.

March 25, 2013

The Steubenville verdict should be discussed in locker rooms and athletic departments around the country.

March 18, 2013

The Ohio case raises the chance to discuss why rape culture festers in the world of sports.

March 13, 2013

Hundreds of Israeli soccer fans couldn't stomach the sight of a Muslim player scoring for their own team.

March 11, 2013

The late president wanted to protect Venezuelan players shipped off to the US—not exactly something the MLB empire eagerly embraced.

March 6, 2013
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