Black Mizzou Football Players Are Going on Strike Over Campus Racism Black Mizzou Football Players Are Going on Strike Over Campus Racism
In a game changer that could bring down a university president, the Missouri football players are showing just how powerful their labor is.
Nov 8, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Fight Transphobia and Move the Damn 2017 Super Bowl Fight Transphobia and Move the Damn 2017 Super Bowl
The idea that the Super Bowl must never be affected by politics flies in the face of the game’s own history.
Nov 5, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Why Does Anybody Play Football Anymore? Why Does Anybody Play Football Anymore?
Football has never been more popular. And it has never felt less like a game.
Nov 3, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Goodbye to Grantland, ESPN’s Home for Actual Sports Journalism Goodbye to Grantland, ESPN’s Home for Actual Sports Journalism
For this former ESPN ombudsman, Grantland was a beacon in a field of sludge.
Nov 2, 2015 / Robert Lipsyte
Concerns About the ‘Pat Tillman’ Military-Themed Sports Uniforms Concerns About the ‘Pat Tillman’ Military-Themed Sports Uniforms
Given the code with which Pat Tillman lived and the way that he died, the new Tillman-themed shirts and sneakers by Adidas are very troubling.
Oct 29, 2015 / Dave Zirin
For the First Time in History, the World Series Is Between 2 Teams That Were Never Segregated For the First Time in History, the World Series Is Between 2 Teams That Were Never Segregated
How the 2015 World Series holds up a mirror to baseball’s queasy segregated present.
Oct 26, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Pimps All Around: In Defense of ‘Louisville Madam’ Katina Powell Pimps All Around: In Defense of ‘Louisville Madam’ Katina Powell
People castigating the woman who supplied sex workers to Louisville basketball groups should be pointing their fingers elsewhere.
Oct 23, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Louisville Basketball and the NCAA’s Political Economy of Misogyny Louisville Basketball and the NCAA’s Political Economy of Misogyny
We can’t afford to be cynical about the news that the most lucrative college hoops program in the country uses women as a form of currency.
Oct 21, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Challenging Major League Baseball’s New Managerial Color Line Challenging Major League Baseball’s New Managerial Color Line
With zero African-American managers and only one Latino manager, baseball needs an affirmative-action policy with actual teeth.
Oct 19, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Lamar Odom Deserves Better Lamar Odom Deserves Better
Lamar Odom is not a punchline. He’s someone who has lived in a state of self-medication as a means of self-preservation.
Oct 15, 2015 / Dave Zirin