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The controversy provided a long-overdue spotlight on the difference between feminism as a brand and feminism as a political movement.

Joe Hill, Joe Pa, Tebow and Wee Brains.

The forces fighting against Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union agenda are halting the Tea Party’s momentum. Will President Obama stand with them?

Numerous cities are littered with “downtown catalysts” that failed to catalyze.

Make no mistake about it: the owners lost.

Football players from the 1980s and 1990s are turning up dead.

The general public is a lot more knowledgable about matters of sports labor issues, and everything else, than it was a decade ago.

Why does the sports world remain fiercely hostile to open participation by LGBT athletes?

My two first sports heroes, in a long and ever-expanding gallery, were oddly matched, though both wore the number twelve.