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Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

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?

Of the top fifteen men's players in the world, seven of them are Egyptian, and the women's side is not far behind.

Athletes need to realize that they can shape their own image much more successfully than athletes of previous generations.

Lou Gehrig epitomized the dignified athlete.

Professional athletes make lousy public officials.

Nation Sports Editor Dave Zirin denounces Woods' latest ad as just another distraction from the tournament.

Runner Caster Semenya showed up to race this week and the International Association of Athletics Federations wouldn't let her--when Semenya's only "crime" is that she may be intersex.