Tag: sports

Columns

Testing Grounds

Michael Waters

April 28, 2025

Sex screenings provide an easy mechanism of social control.

Take Me Out to the Mallpark

Andrew Schenker

October 24, 2024

“Tear the fucking thing down!”

Knowers of Ball

Leif Weatherby

October 23, 2024

Innovation has come for the NFL.

Human Velocity

Frankie de la Cretaz

June 07, 2024

A conversation with Michael Waters, the author of “The Other Olympians.”

The Sweet Science and the Sovereign Fund

Sean Nam

March 06, 2024

Saudi Arabia steps into the boxing ring.

Inside Baseball

Andrew Schenker

September 28, 2022

Chronicling the national game—and a changing nation.

Governing Bodies

Rafia Zakaria

July 30, 2021

Why are women athletes required to show so much skin?

The Red Zone

Nathan Kalman-Lamb,  Derek Silva,  Johanna Mellis

October 19, 2020

College football in a pandemic reveals our capacity for Trumpism.

Game Face

James Wham

July 21, 2020

A new collection of Olympic films tries to skip the politics.

Too Close to Call

Brendan O’Connor

January 13, 2020

On VAR and soccer’s data problem.

Stick it to Sports

Shane Burley

October 17, 2019

How soccer supporters’ groups fought the league and won.

A Fan’s Notes

Kate Wagner

June 20, 2019

In the Jon Bois era, the specious divide between sports and art can no longer stand.