Help

Nation Topics - Sports

Topic Page

Nation Topics - Sports

Articles

News and Features

A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics.

Donald Sterling was just obligated to pay out the largest settlement ever obtained by the government in a housing discrimination case involving apartment rentals.

The NFL is only the highest-profile example of the economic crisis pervading the world of sports.

The Nation's sports editor Dave Zirin argues that corporate naming rights on college campuses are a bad idea.

What if campaign finance reform took a page from baseball's playbook?

The real reason Limbaugh is losing his cool is that his dream of owning an NFL franchise is going up in smoke.

The Nation's Dave Zirin weighs in on Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the the St. Louis Rams football team.

Rush Limbaugh's long history of racism should be enough to quash his chances of becoming an owner in the National Football League.

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.

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.

Blogs

The Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs put on a game for the ages, reminding me of a similar one almost twenty-seven years ago.

June 19, 2013

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Brazil demanding justice in the face of sporting austerity.

June 18, 2013

Stealing a Super Bowl Ring is one thing. Stealing $30 billion is a whole other ballgame.

June 16, 2013

With the Washington Redskins finally relevant on a national stage, The Nation's Dave Zirin argues that Dan Snyder can no longer hide from the bigotry of his team's name. 

June 14, 2013

As in Egypt, the uprising in Turkey is seeing the hyper-intense “ultra” soccer fan clubs at the center of the nation’s revolt.

June 10, 2013

Dave Zirin represents a long tradition of reporting from the intersection of basketball, politics and culture.

June 8, 2013

Major League Baseball is back with perhaps the largest steroid bust in league history. The press is cheering. But is this really progress?

June 5, 2013

In the “After Jason Collins” era, Roy Hibbert’s post–Game 6 comments have no place in the NBA.

June 4, 2013

In the "After Jason Collins" era, the NBA should take a stand against the big man's recent comments.

June 2, 2013

Sportswriter Bill Simmons gets a lot of heat for a lot of reasons. But discussing the effect of Dr. King’s death on the city of Memphis shouldn’t be one of them.

May 31, 2013