The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
As the clock ticks down to former gang leader Stanley Tookie Williiams's scheduled execution on December 13, football great Jim Brown is helping lead the fight to convince Governor...
Nov 29, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
The Champ Meets the Chump The Champ Meets the Chump
When George W. Bush met Muhammad Ali at the White House last week, the Champ had one last rope-a-dope up his sleeve. You don't have to guess who won this match.
Nov 18, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
The Ring Cycle The Ring Cycle
When Joe Louis defeated Nazi sympathizer Max Schmeling in 1938, it was the boxing match that reverberated across the world. Three new books chronicle the match and all the racial a...
Nov 16, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gerald Early
The Soccer Star and the President The Soccer Star and the President
Who is Diego Maradona, and how did a former Argentinian soccer star become the nemesis of an American President?
Nov 8, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet–and Ignored Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet–and Ignored
WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes has just come out of the closet. But why didn't anyone care?
Nov 4, 2005 / Dave Zirin
Say It Ain’t So, Big Leagues Say It Ain’t So, Big Leagues
Strip-mining the Dominican Republic for talent, Major League Baseball periodically plucks one lucky boy from his home and family and gives him a dream for a better life. But what h...
Oct 26, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Pat Tillman, Our Hero Pat Tillman, Our Hero
War hero and former NFL star Pat Tillman was not the GI Joe icon created by Pentagon spinmeisters. He was a fiercely independent thinker convinced that the war in Iraq was illegal....
Oct 6, 2005 / Dave Zirin
Etan Thomas Rises to the Occasion Etan Thomas Rises to the Occasion
Washington Wizards power forward Etan Thomas is using his swoosh-adorned status as a sports star to speak out on the gross negligence of the Bush Administration.
Sep 14, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
What’s My Name, Fool? What’s My Name, Fool?
In The Godfather, Part II, dying mob boss Hyman Roth wheezes the obscene truth to young Don Michael Corleone.
Aug 2, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Visible Man Visible Man
The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate