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Joe Hill, Joe Pa, Tebow and Wee Brains.

Dave Zirin says that the Green Bay Packers are a special case in football, representing a possibility for community involvement and social change rarely seen in sports.

By this year's Super Bowl, if you are still passionately following football or, worse, allowing your kid to play, you may just be an old-fashioned imperialist running dog.

The thirty-second spots for chips, beer, babes and flatulent slackers star in the big game.

David Zirin argues for a Super Bowl chock-full of advocacy ads.

The Tim Tebow commercial is no departure at all for viewers of the big game.

The Supreme Court will soon tell the NFL whether it can knock out competition by cutting deals as a single entity.

If banks were people, here's what the full $17.5 trillion bailout would look like.