Tag: sports

Columns

American Sports and the Forever War

Ross Barkan

June 04, 2019

When the military is brought to the ball field season after season, the subtext is the eternal war, and its justification.

Against the Statheads

Kyle Paoletta

April 04, 2019

Major League Baseball’s statistics revolution benefits the billionaire bosses most of all.

The Beautiful Game’s Ugly Speculators

Brendan O’Connor

March 04, 2019

There is no ethical soccer under capitalism.

Feedback Loop

G’Ra Asim

January 22, 2019

When one is permanently alienated in the land of one’s own birth, the seasons consist entirely of road games.

Football Nation

David Roth

December 05, 2018

The NFL repeatedly mistakes itself for a nation state—a sort of parallel America.

Superstar Power

Nathaniel Friedman,  Jesse Einhorn

May 31, 2018

Is it asking too much for some of the most prominent union members in the world to support the labor movement?

Regarding the Pain of Others

Nathaniel Friedman

November 08, 2017

Gordon Hayward's leg injury forces us to admit that we might die any day now, for no good reason, at exactly the wrong time in our lives.

A Farewell to the Impossible Kyrie Irving

Hanif Abdurraqib

September 08, 2017

Let it first be said that The Shot was always going to go in. The shot that unfurled from Kyrie Irving’s fingertips through the air inside Oracle Arena at the tail end of the 2016 NBA Finals was destined to find a home at the bottom of the net. The Cleveland Cavaliers had come ...

Heartbreak, Hope, and Finally, a Parade

Hanif Abdurraqib

March 27, 2017

To those who’ve never lived in Ohio, Cleveland has been known for its sports failures.

Gone with the Winds

Mike Bivins

August 29, 2016

When a hurricane strikes, and is destructive or deadly enough, its name will be retired. For this to happen, the storm will have had to inflict so much damage that to reuse its name would be, according to the National Hurricane Center, a serious faux pas for “obvious reasons ...

The Art of Con

Anne Elizabeth Moore

November 17, 2014

Last weekend, heralded all by tourist boards, local TV news reports, and a massive full-color ad campaign throughout the city’s public transportation system, what turned out to be a relatively modest art exhibition opened in downtown Chicago. It shouldn’t have been ...

Pro-Sports Moochers and the True Cost of “Student Athletes”

Andrew Helms

June 30, 2014

“Right now the NCAA is like a dictatorship,” said Kain Colter, starting quarterback for the Northwestern University football team this past January. “No one represents us in negotiations. The only way things are going to change is if players have a union.” Colter’s ...