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On Olympic Bribery (Sports)

'Twas said the honest folks of Salt Lake City

Deplored sins large and even itty-bitty.

But, trying for the Games, they thought it pretty

Calvin Trillin
Floating Like a Butterfly... (Sports, Biography)

In October in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson went before the Nevada Athletic
Commission to ask it to reinstate his boxing license, which had been
suspended after Tyson took a bite out of Evander Holyfie

David Levi Strauss
O'Malley's Double Play (Sports)
David Cort
It Seems to Heywood Broun (Sports, From the Archive, Society)

Baseball is deservedly known as our national sport, for in the World Series just ended in triumph for the Athletics it was evident that the games contained most of the characteristic phases of American life: shrewdness, skill, sentimentality and downright luck. 

Heywood Broun

Blogs

The Baseball Hall of Fame's Epic Fail
Dave Zirin

The decision to elect no one to the baseball Hall of Fame class of 2013 will go down in infamy.

January 10, 2013
Dave Zirin: By Ignoring the 1990s, the Baseball Hall of Fame Forgets Its History
Nation in the News

Nation sports columnist Dave Zirin questions the Baseball Hall of Fame for not selecting players accused of—or even vaguely connected with—steroid usage.

January 10, 2013
RGIII and the Crisis of Liberalism in the United States
Dave Zirin

A liberal Washington Post columnist wrote about football star Robert Griffin III’s injury on Sunday. He ended up saying a whole lot more.

January 8, 2013
Notre Dame and Penn State: Two Rape Scandals, Only One Cry for Justice
Dave Zirin

How do we begin to explain the exponentially different levels of attention paid to crimes of violence and power at Penn State and Notre Dame?

January 7, 2013
Must Be Seen to Be Believed: Kevin-Prince Boateng Kicks Soccer’s Racism in the Teeth
Dave Zirin

Kevin-Prince Boateng has made clear that the old, meek ways of fighting the racism of fans is no longer good enough.

January 3, 2013
Football at Ground Zero: The 'Atom Bowl', Nagasaki, New Year's Day, 1946
Greg Mitchell

Was this the wildest football game ever?

December 31, 2012
Roger Goodell: The Wayne LaPierre of the Sports World
Dave Zirin

As the media turn a critical eye toward the NRA president, they might want to follow suit with the commissioner of the National Football League.

December 28, 2012
2012: The Year Our Sports Broke
Dave Zirin

A series of awful stories topped the Associated Press’s “sports stories of the year.”

December 21, 2012
The NFL Responds to the Sandy Hook Massacre. Should We Listen?
Dave Zirin

The NFL cannot be a force for nonviolence because its popularity is the perfect reflection of what we’ve become as a country.

December 17, 2012
'It's Not Just Anti-Union. It's Anti-Worker.' NFLPA and MLBPA Join Fight Against Michigan Right-to-Work
Dave Zirin

Sports unions have joined to fight to defeat Michigan's proposed right-to-work legislation.

December 9, 2012
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