Recent Sports Features

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Monday, June 21 2004

Root Root Root For Your Own Team

By Edward Comstock

To be a baseball fan, you are asked to attend games, buy products that signify your team, watch games on TV, and always 'root, root, root for the home team' -- in short, to spend money.

Thursday, February 5 2004

Why Does a 14-year-Old Matter?

By David Leonard

The praise for Freddy Adu and Michelle Wie cannot be understood outside the constant critique against those young black males seeking entry into the NBA, as race, class, gender, nationality, and sport all play into fan/commentator reception and perception.

Wednesday, January 7 2004

Top 10 Sports Scandals, Controversies, and Oddities of 2003

By Tobias Peterson

What's most notable about the top stories in the world of sports for 2003 is how much they have in common with the controversies of years past. Racism, homophobia, and sexism all bubbled to the surface this year, just as they have done and will lamentably continue to do in the future.

Wednesday, October 22 2003

Rush to Judgment: America’s Mishandling of the Donovan McNabb-Rush Limbaugh Controversy

By Marc L. Hill

True to form, Rush Limbaugh had managed to rile up the nation and draw attention to himself while boosting Sunday NFL Countdown viewership to the tune of a 10 point ratings increase.

Thursday, September 11 2003

Racing Sports

By David Leonard

I began to think of the 'race card' as a real collector's item.

Monday, May 5 2003

Paving Their Own Way: An Interview with Jim Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler, Jr. of Outsports.com

By Byron McRae

About three years ago, Jim and Cyd created Outsports.com, an on-line community for gay athletes and sports fans. Their lives, and the lives of gay men and women who love sports, haven’t been the same since.

Friday, April 18 2003

That’s Entertainment

By Michael Weinreb

I don't know about you, but I don't want my athletes to act like foot soldiers. I have foot soldiers to do that nowadays.

Monday, February 24 2003

Uprooted

By Michael Weinreb

The more Augusta National Golf Club hangs on to outdated principles, the more it lets go of its future.

Thursday, February 13 2003

When Fashion Throws Back

By Michael Calderone

Not since shaggy haired, indie rockers stormed their local thrift shops for ironic ringer tees and mesh hats has a retro fashion hit the streets with such a force.

Tuesday, January 28 2003

The Globalized Association

By Luke Peterson

The NBA is becoming less insular, resembling much more closely the face of international soccer for the ease with which players cross national boundaries to play for 'foreign' nations.

Thursday, January 9 2003

Post-Fab: Scores, Scandals, and Stigmas in College Athletics

By Michael Calderone

Pessimists argue that this bygone role of college sports can no longer exist, yet students and educators can decide to wrest their teams away from negative outside influences. As a result, it may be possible to remove the athletic albatross from bringing down the academic worth of the institution, and college athletics would once again truly serve the student body.

Viagra: The New Image of Baseball

By Adam Dlugacz

Baseball needs a new marketing campaign and fast, or it really is in danger of becoming a relic of another era.

Friday, November 8 2002

The “I” in Team

By Tobias Peterson

Superstar athletes are caught in a paradoxical bind: rewarded for being better than the rest of us, punished for letting us know.

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