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October 31, 2016
Alex Shephard
No, Colin Kapernick isn’t responsible for the NFL’s precipitous ratings drop.
October 21, 2016
MagazineAlex Shephard
The UFC’s Dirtiest Move Yet: Union Bashing
Can the league's fighters win the same rights as other professional athletes?
September 22, 2016
Stacia L. Brown
Fox’s Pitch Is Not Pure Fiction
Recalling the three black women who gender-integrated the Negro Leagues.
September 21, 2016
Joyce Millman
Outside Baseball
Fox's new drama about a woman in Major League Baseball, 'Pitch' aims to tell an uplifting story of female empowerment. But is it realistic?
September 16, 2016
MagazineJeet Heer
Divide and Conquer
How professional sports and stand-up comedy taught Trump to profit from racial stereotypes.
September 12, 2016
Stacia L. Brown
For Black America, Absolute Love of Country Is Impossible
Colin Kaepernick's protest reflects our contentious relationship with the U.S. flag and national anthem.
August 30, 2016
Alex Shephard
Colin Kaepernick deserves better.
August 21, 2016
Sukjong Hong
The Heinous Olympification of Seoul
The 1988 Summer Games set the template for the “neurotic” model of economic development that has plagued Rio and other Olympic cities.
August 17, 2016
Clio Chang
How the Olympics Lost Millennials
The International Olympic Committee and its American media partners have failed miserably to bring the Games to where young people live.
August 15, 2016
Maggie Shipstead
A Gentleman’s Sport, Now With Lasers
Eight writers on the meaning of Olympic sports. Part 8: Modern pentathlon.
August 12, 2016
Rafia Zakaria
Pakistan’s Boxing Triumph
Eight writers on the meaning of Olympic sports. Part 7: Boxing.
August 11, 2016
Matthew Pratt Guterl
The Racial Politics of Track and Field
Eight writers on the meaning of Olympic sports. Part 6: Track and Field.
August 9, 2016
Clancy Martin
My Father, The Weightlifter
Eight writers on the meaning of Olympic sports. Part 3: Weightlifting
August 8, 2016
Anna Wiener
Ping Pong, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Sport
Eight writers on the meaning of Olympic sports. Part 1: Ping Pong.
August 4, 2016
Nell Zink
The Sustainable Olympics
Nell Zink has a modest proposal for the next generation of global sport.
July 19, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
Could the Russian team be banned from the Rio Olympics?
July 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
NBA free agency is nuts.
July 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump likes the worst professional athletes.
June 29, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Will Euro 2016 continue to be great?
June 29, 2016
MagazineElspeth Reeve
The Tumbler Tumblr
How hard-core gymnastics fans are revolutionizing the way the sport is covered.

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