Recent Sports Features

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Thursday, September 29 2005

It’s a White Man’s Game: Racism, Native American Mascots, and the NCAA

By C. Richard King

In a very real sense, the struggle over Native American mascots is a struggle over what it means to be American, and who gets to decide.

Thursday, July 28 2005

A European Superbowl?

By Roger Holland

It is possible that Glazer's grand adventure into English football will bring Manchester United to its knees, and Glazer along with it.

Wednesday, July 13 2005

The Selling of a Red Sox Nation

By Hunter Felt

Why have so many people, many of whom have never even followed baseball before, joined the already crowded bandwagon?

Friday, July 8 2005

We Love LA! The Legacy of Lance Armstrong

By Robert Collins

If Armstrong has opened this bizarre world of beloved cheats and spectacular runners-up to an American audience, it's a remarkable achievement. Not least because it's shown the bitterly conservative sports media that America does care about what happens outside the 50 states.

Tuesday, May 24 2005

Carradonna: Heart as Big as Liverpool

By Roger Holland

Jamie Carragher comes from one of the rougher sides of Liverpool. He's a footballer whose honesty, hard-work, loyalty, dependability, and refusal to act like some sort of primadonna arsehole just because he can kick a ball a bit places him head and shoulders above any other top-flight player in the English game.

Tuesday, May 10 2005

The Real Color of Money: Controlling Black Bodies in the NBA

By David Leonard

The NBA playoffs are upon us, and PopMatters covers both sides of the debate surrounding the push to impose age limits on the league's incoming players.

Age Before Ability: Why College, Not a Contract, Should be the Next Stop for the Student Athlete

By Bill Gibron

The NBA playoffs are upon us, and PopMatters covers both sides of the debate surrounding the push to impose age limits on the league's incoming players.

Monday, May 2 2005

Turin’s Shroud: Has the English Disease become the Italian Complaint?

By Roger Holland

The story behind these games is truly a history of modern football hooliganism.

Thursday, April 28 2005

On the Brink of Irrelevance: Hockey Through American Eyes

By Erik Leijon

The battered reputation of the NHL was bound to suffer during this new age of American nationalism, but it didn't have to be to this extent.

Thursday, March 31 2005

Why Is This Man Not a Household Name?: Roger Federer Soars Under the Radar

By David Marchese

Roger Federer is an athlete of an order American sports fans have never been able to fully embrace. He's humble to a fault, wary of drawing attention to himself, and a Swiss polyglot.

Tuesday, March 8 2005

Don’t Like the Drugs But the Drugs Like Me: Baseball’s Steroid-Free Field of Dreams

By Tobias Peterson

Baseball's cultural currency is maintained in large part by the sepia toned pictures of yesteryear, when everything was so much simpler and all our lives were so much better. Any change to this construction occasions a virulent backlash against those who would seek to 'corrupt' the sport.

Thursday, March 3 2005

Beyond Black and White: Norm Chow and the Case for Minority Hiring

By David Leonard

Norm Chow has been called a 'master', a 'creative mind', and a 'legend', but he's yet to be described by the words 'head coach'.

Monday, February 21 2005

Superbowl Sunday, London Style: A Conversation

By Robert Collins

Robert Collins delivers a European perspective on the Superbowl in this conversation with an American counterpart: 'From the moment I switched on the pre-game, the coverage was a tribute to US moral and military superiority.'

Monday, February 7 2005

Mythic Ideals: Max Schmeling (1905-2005)

By Tobias Peterson

Refusing to fire his Jewish manager or join the Nazi party, Max Schmeling also refused to assume the political and racial mantles thrust upon him.

Thursday, February 3 2005

Ricky Williams—Why Can’t We Just Let Him Be?

By David Swerdlick

Sportswriters have always made mention of the fact that Williams is shy and soft-spoken, but have seldom entertained the possibility that he might be unhappy with everything going on around him. It would have been too contrary to the mainstream, everyday image of superstar Black athletes -- rich, headstrong, flashy, sexy, quotable, and just happy to be there.

Wednesday, January 26 2005

Cashing in on the Other: Race, Commodity and Surveillance of Contemporary Athletes

By David Leonard

The predominance of black athletes within consumer culture and the values placed onto MJ, Kobe, Shaq, and others overshadow the realities of segregated schools, police brutality, unemployment, and a bigoted criminal justice system.

Wednesday, January 19 2005

Can We Kick It? Why European Football Can’t Shake Its Racist Image

By Robert Collins

Other popular sports never confused loyalty and violence, and definitely never came with the promise of a punch up. Football became an excuse for whatever spleen venting was needed, and racist beliefs were among them.

Thursday, December 2 2004

Ballers, Shot Callers

By Cynthia Fuchs

The 'problem' of hip-hop thus seems inherent -- it's a means to sell something, consumption as a means to identity, for players as much as fans. While most consumers presume they make choices, this circulation of signs suggests otherwise.

Monday, November 22 2004

The Body Electric

By Tobias Peterson

The Terrell Owens case finds itself at a crossroads of cultural anxieties.

Tuesday, October 5 2004

Jocks Without Justice, Or Silenced Performers?

By David Leonard

To ignore this context of systematic repression and to focus on money and the nature of sports culture as the only culprits is to tell just a small part of the story.

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