Recent Sports Features

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Tuesday, October 24 2006

The Thin (White) Line between Ballers and Brawlers

By Tobias Peterson

Critics of the Miami-FIU fight are condemning the same kind of antagonism, machismo, and mayhem that is regularly reinforced as integral to football as a sport.

Tuesday, October 10 2006

Kansas City Monarch

By David Swerdlick

Negro League great Buck O'Neil (1911-2006) was one of baseball's finest ambassadors.

Wednesday, October 4 2006

What We Think We Know About Athletes

By Geoffrey Schmidt

In the world of sports fans, athletes are talismans.

Tuesday, September 12 2006

The Apotheosis of Hulk Hogan

By Shawn O'Rourke

If the sports-as-religion metaphor is accurate, then who is god in the professional wrestling world? While numerous potential candidates exist among the pantheon of wrestling superstars, one name shines a little brighter: Hulk Hogan.

Tuesday, July 18 2006

Z/Z: The Headbutt Buzz

By Andrew Ventimiglia

The blogosphere's amateur semioticians explain Zinédine Zidane's head-butt seen around the world.

Thursday, May 4 2006

WWE and Kayfabe: Retaining the Real

By Mark Serrels

The ability of wrestling to renegotiate what is real into a new, hyper reality is what makes it so compelling and unique.

Monday, April 17 2006

A Wild Game of King of the Hill

By Michael Abernethy

Skating has become a dog and pony show, with each performance crammed full of jumps, spins, and fancy footwork, leaving little time for artistry or elegance.

Friday, April 14 2006

(White) Male Privilege, Black Respectability, and Black Women’s Bodies

By Mark Anthony Neal

The case of some white Duke University Lacrosse team members accused of raping a black woman is all about immorality; but sadly, not the immorality of the violent act alleged.

Wednesday, April 12 2006

Raising the Bar: How Track and Field Leads the Way on Sport’s Most Pressing Issues

By Ross McGowan

The exact specifics of track's hot-button issues may not excite the common sports fan, but their implications should.

Friday, March 17 2006

Federer Redux: More Than a Household Name

By John Mitchell

Technical perfection blended with human emotional actualization.

Monday, March 13 2006

Let Them Play: Cuba Libré!

By Geoffrey Schmidt

Freedom always wins. Unless, of course, you are talking about an American citizen's freedom to travel to Cuba, or a Cuban citizens' freedom to travel to America, the Cuban team's freedom to play in an international baseball tournament.

Wednesday, March 8 2006

U.S.-U.C.K.: America’s Olympic Snide

By Bill Gibron

For the US, the Olympiad is a chance for TV to turn purposefully patriotic, to remind us of the event's one-time regality, and how far it has fallen since the advent of judge bribing and blood doping.

Wednesday, February 22 2006

Paying the Cost to Disobey the Boss

By Roy L. Pickering, Jr.

A look at the world according to David Stern, where his players must walk the tightrope between two very different sets of fans.

Wednesday, February 15 2006

Introduction

By Tobias Peterson

As the name implies, the Super Bowl is a big deal. It's annually one of the most watched television programs in the world and, this past week, over 90 million people tuned in to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers trump the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. But was that all they saw?

The Revolution Will Be Televised

By Ross McGowan

The NFL has been riding an unbelievable wave of momentum for 15 years now, and one can't help but wonder when the whole thing is going to crest and come crashing back down to earth.

Detroit: Mock City

By Bill Gibron

There is talk of renewed interest in the area, of revival and revitalization, but you'd never know that from the ABC, NFL, or Super Bowl perspective.

Winners at Last

By Dante A. Ciampaglia

This wasn't your typical celebratory parade of controlled chaos. It was simply chaos. Pure, glorious chaos.

Tuesday, February 14 2006

Three Times a Lady

By David Swerdlick

Michelle Kwan is a minimalist ice goddess with only one crooked tooth to remind us that she is human.

Wednesday, January 18 2006

It’s Gotta Be the Dad: Blaming Black Fathers in the World of Sports

By David Leonard

Black fatherhood in the media is seen as a national problem or an issue that young black males have to overcome, or both.

Monday, November 28 2005

The Killing of Georgie

By John Davidson

Remembering George Best, perhaps the most exciting -- and exasperating -- talent in soccer history. Best died on 24 November 2005.

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