1948 was a pretty amazing year to be a sports fan in Cleveland. The newly formed Cleveland Browns had just rattled off a perfect 14-0 season on their way to a third All-America Football Conference championship in three years, the… Read More ›
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An Olympic Sized Disaster: The Many Ways The Rio Summer Games Can Go Wrong
There are few things in this world as reassuring and satisfying as the moment when, after shuffling through the crowded corridors of a stadium concourse, you catch your first glimpse of baseball field before a game. Everything about it, from… Read More ›
Your “Tradition” Is My Pain: How Race-Based Mascots Inflict Real Harm On Native Americans
Let me ask you a question. When was the last time you saw a thoroughly modern Native American in a film or a TV show? Now, I’m not asking the last time you saw a contemporary film or TV show… Read More ›
Game Called On Account Of Systemic Injustice: Missouri’s Football Team Boycotts Bigotry On Campus
*Editor’s Note: University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned from his position at around the same time this article was posted* ——————– Today, it could well be argued that no single sport has perfected the art of athletic spectacle to… Read More ›
The Washington Redskins Are More Racist Than You Think (No, Really)
Amidst the vast cacophony of moronic prattle being peddled by a surfeit of GOP presidential candidates, former Florida governor and Super PAC money pit Jeb Bush managed to snag a share of the spotlight for at least one news cycle… Read More ›
Young Men With Old Brains: The Hard Realities of Traumatic Brain Injury in Sport
Editor’s Note: In light of the recent controversy surrounding the NFL’s handling of Junior Seau’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony and a new settlement challenging the terms of NFL’s concussion settlement that was filed in a U.S. Circuit Court by… Read More ›
A Heads Up Play: Chris Borland’s Early Retirement & What It Means For The Future of Football
“I got to go. I can’t be here.” Those were the last words of former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, spoken in the parking lot of the team’s practice facility on the morning of December 1, 2012. Less than… Read More ›
Angels In The Outfield Asking For Help: Josh Hamilton & Baseball’s Other Drug Problem
If, in the distant future, some baseball historian were to come across the box score for the Cincinnati Reds’ Opening Day in 2007, he wouldn’t find anything that seemed particularly noteworthy. On that day, the Reds’ notched a 5-1 victory… Read More ›
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