Thursday, April 25 2013

‘30 for 30: Elway to Marino’: Remembering NFL Draft Day 1983

By Cynthia Fuchs

The film shows that the men who are involved in this business, those sold or sold and those who sell or buy, all have more at stake than they might imagine on that one day.

Thursday, February 7 2013

The Pop Culture Death Trap Part 1: The Athlete as Hieroglyph

By Graeme Abernethy

In a money- and youth-driven culture that seems to understand nearly all human activity as part of a contest, death, like poverty, has come to be associated, however imprecisely, with losing.

Friday, July 27 2012

Flash Points: Penn State’s Cover-Up and the Ethics of Rape Jokes

By Steven Aoun and Sarah Boslaugh

This week Flash Points looks at the Penn State cover-up and examines the way powerful people typically go to great lengths to cover their collective asses. We also examine rape culture and the ethics of rape jokes.

Friday, September 23 2011

The Bad News Statisticians: ‘Moneyball’

By Chris Barsanti

There’s an ugly and unromantic truth behind Bennett Miller’s baseball stats semi-comedy Moneyball that it acknowledges and then dances away from.

Thursday, February 18 2010

ESPN: Changing the Way Americans Think About Sports

By Alex Suskind

ESPN changed the course of American sports culture by providing access to national and international events 24 hours per day and cultivating the entertainment potential of sporting events and personalities.

Tuesday, October 21 2008

LeBron James and the Beat Book

By Craig Fehrman

If beat reporters keep churning out books on 'Bron, why aren't we learning anything? These books represent the current state of the beat book -- and indicate it may be in serious trouble.

Wednesday, April 16 2008

Major League Baseball 2K8

By Jason Cook

MLB 2K8 has gone the innovation route, overhauling many standards of the baseball sim, making it an interesting experiment in what baseball games can be.

Tuesday, March 11 2008

Stage is set for new generation of sports icons

By David J. Neal

Wednesday, December 12 2007

Smash Court Tennis 3

By Azmol Meah

Smash Court Tennis 3 lies in the murky middle ground between Wii Sports' tennis and Virtua Tennis, neither excelling in any particular area nor really doing that much wrong.

Wednesday, December 5 2007

Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis

By Arun Subramanian

Although the Wii version of Table Tennis offers players three separate control schemes, none seem to take full advantage of the Wii remote.