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05/14/13 - Rep. Steve King: "Why Won't Obama Call Tim Tebow?"

Why can't Tim Tebow find a job as an NFL quarterback? It's not as simple as not being able to throw.

05/09/13 - The Cesspool: Why Youth Sports Tend to Suck

It's true that some teams are fun, some children have terrific experiences and access to youth sports should be universal. But overall, youth sports, to quote my neighbor’s 11-year-old kid, “straight sucks.” Why do 70 percent of kids quit youth sports by age 13? Why do parents get so unbelievably nasty? Why, and this is the most serious point, can it turn suddenly violent?

05/06/13 - What Did RGIII Learn at the Muhammad Ali Center?

Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III spent Saturday at the museum that in my view is the Mecca of the intersection of sports and politics: the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. The Muhammad Ali Center is a remarkable testament to the courage of an athlete willing to take unpopular stands because of political principle. The fact that Ali took these stands at the height of his athletic powers, when he was between the ages of 22 and 26, clearly had an impact on Mr. Griffin.

05/01/13 - Jason Collins: The Substance of Change

05/01/13 - Why Jason Collins Is More Roger Bannister Than Jackie Robinson

04/29/13 - Did Shaquille O'Neal Just Box Out Mumia?

04/29/13 - An Interview With ESPN's New Ombudsman, Robert Lipsyte

04/29/13 - 'What the Hell!': Steubenville High School Football Coach Gets a Two-Year Contract Extension

04/29/13 - Why We Must Protect Next Year’s Boston Marathon From Ourselves

04/29/13 - A Review of '42': Jackie Robinson's Bitter Pill

04/17/13 - The Boston Marathon: All My Tears, All My Love

04/12/13 - NHL Takes 'Historic Step' for LGBT Equality

04/11/13 - Mad Men: Why Fox News and Former Players Defend Former Rutgers Coach Mike Rice

04/03/13 - I Shattered My Leg At the NCAA Tournament & All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

04/03/13 - Five Fears About 42

03/27/13 - Pro Sports Can Help End Rape

03/18/13 - The Verdict: Steubenville Shows the Bond Between Jock Culture and Rape Culture

03/13/13 - Steubenville and Challenging Rape Culture in Sports

03/06/13 - Why Major League Baseball Owners Will Cheer the Death of Hugo Chavez

03/04/13 - The Sports Interview Non–Sports Fans Have to Read: My Talk With NBA Player Royce White

02/24/13 - Florida Atlantic's Folly: Why GEO Group Should Not Have Naming Rights

02/24/13 - Oscar Pistorius and the Global System of Deadly Misogyny

02/24/13 - Citizen Mike: Michael Jordan at 50

02/18/13 - Game Over; How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down: The Sports Illustrated Review

02/18/13 - NBA Player Royce White: Mental Health Revolutionary

02/11/13 - Redskins: The Clock Is Now Ticking on Changing the Name

02/10/13 - John Harbaugh Summons the Poetry of Muhammad Ali

02/05/13 - 'The Blackout Bowl,' or 'The Most Depressing Super Bowl Column You'll Read'

02/01/13 - Is it Getting Better? Homophobia Rocks Super Bowl

01/28/13 - 'It's a New World': The Super Bowl Becomes a Platform for LGBT Equality

01/24/13 - Three Card Manti: Why the Media Is Swallowing Manti Te'o's New Narrative

01/21/13 - The NFL: Where Dr. King's "Dream" Goes to Die

01/18/13 - Crying for Manti Te'o

01/14/13 - Lance Armstrong's Discordant Redemption Song

01/08/13 - RGIII and the Crisis of Liberalism in the United States

01/07/13 - Notre Dame and Penn State: Two Rape Scandals, Only One Cry for Justice

01/03/13 - Must Be Seen to Be Believed: Kevin-Prince Boateng Kicks Soccer’s Racism in the Teeth

12/28/12 - Roger Goodell: The Wayne LaPierre of the Sports World

12/17/12 - The NFL Responds to the Sandy Hook Massacre. Should We Listen?

12/06/12 - "I am not backtracking at all": Bob Costas in his own words

12/02/12 - How Can They Play? Murder, Suicide and the National Football League

11/27/12 - Rest in Power, Marvin Miller

11/19/12 - Killing Hope: Why Israel Targets Sports in Gaza

11/14/12 - Citizen’s Arrest: The Case for Putting Jeffrey Loria Behind Bars

11/12/12 - Nine-Year-Old Girl Plays Football, Kicks Ass and Maybe Changes the World

11/07/12 - 2012 Elections Heralded by Sergio Romo's Shirt

11/02/12 - With Love: Postpone the Damn Marathon

10/29/12 - James Harden, The NBA and the Myth of Small Markets

10/25/12 - "It's Bonds. Barry Bonds": The Return of Baseball's Invisible Man

10/22/12 - The Recusal: Roger Goodell Just Had a Great Fall

10/16/12 - Meet the Lockout Lawyers Destroying Sports

10/15/12 - Postmortem: The Now-Infamous and Indefensible Decision to Sit Stephen Strasburg

10/08/12 - The Smartest, or Dumbest, (or maybe Smartest) Tweet an Athlete Ever Sent

10/01/12 - Palestinian Soccer Player Mahmoud Sarsak Won't Play FC Barcelona's Game

09/27/12 - It's Over: The NFL's Union Referees Return to Work in Style

09/24/12 - NFL Scab Referees and the Return of TV Bloopers

09/13/12 - Two Lockouts, A Strike, and a Pizza

09/12/12 - Chris Kluwe and the Greatest Political Statement by Any Athlete Ever

09/05/12 - NFL Season Opens Under the Darkest of Shadows

09/03/12 - Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas Speaks Out, Is Smacked Down

08/28/12 - Why are the NFL Refs Locked Out? It's All in the Game

08/27/12 - What They Can't Take From Lance Armstrong

08/20/12 - Condi Rice's Membership at Augusta National Is Nothing to Celebrate

08/18/12 - Australian Government Will Issue Overdue Apology to 1968 Olympic Hero Peter Norman

08/15/12 - After the London Olympics: “The Gloves Come Off”

08/13/12 - Is the US Olympic System as Abusive as China's?

08/08/12 - Oscar Pistorius and 'the Dignity of Risk'

08/05/12 - The Power of Gabby Douglas

08/03/12 - An anti-racist Olympic rebel

08/01/12 - Danny Boyle's Olympic Minstrel Show

07/27/12 - The 'Wazzock' Mitt Romney Is Wrong About the London Olympics, and This Is Unfortunate

07/23/12 - Why the NCAA's Sanctions on Penn State Are Just Dead Wrong

07/15/12 - Against Abolishing Football at Penn State

07/12/12 - The Shocking Truth About Joe Paterno, Penn State and Governor Tom Corbett

07/09/12 - Serena Williams and Getting “Emotional” for Title IX

07/05/12 - Steve Nash to the Lakers: the political impact

07/02/12 - Drew Brees, Union Power and the Big Payback

06/25/12 - Jerry Sandusky's Crimes and the Accountability of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett

06/19/12 - Palestinian Soccer Star/Hunger Striker Mahmoud Sarsak to Be Freed

06/15/12 - Red State Hoops: The Oklahoma City Thunder and the value of Seattle's rage

06/10/12 - Do You Know Your Enemy? Why we should all root for the Miami Heat to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder

06/05/12 - After 44 Years, It's Time Brent Musburger Apologized to John Carlos and Tommie Smith

05/30/12 - Mind the Gap: London's Olympic Games are Falling Down