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Hungry for Success: A Sports Myth

Andrew Helms

May 06, 2014

Shabazz Napier had the childhood that sports writers dream of. Born in Roxbury, a historically African-American neighborhood in Boston, and raised in the Mission Hill housing projects, Napier led the University of Connecticut Huskies to a NCAA Men’s Basketball title this ...

Free Your Mind, Win the World Cup?

Andrew Helms

April 16, 2014

In a recent appearance at this year’s South by Southwest conference in Austin, the self-congratulatory Davos of skinny-suited professionals, soccer journalist Roger Bennett asked the effervescent head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team, Jürgen Klinsmann, if he ...

Chasing the Dream of the Having-It-All Girl Supermodel Athlete

Rhian Sasseen

February 13, 2014

It’s Olympics time again. That means we must prepare to tune in for what every four years briefly turns into America’s favorite blood sport: figure skating! It’s the perfect sport for Americans who want to watch women in sequins make each other cry. My fellow fans, I ...

Take Me Out to the Suburbs

Jim Newell

November 13, 2013

The Atlanta Braves’ long nightmare is finally over. The baseball team has announced that it will move out of its downtown stadium, Turner Field, after a whopping . . . 16 years . . . and move to the greener pastures of suburban Cobb County. “That’s a shock,” ...