This Week's Column
Blogged Down: The Seduction of Buzz Bissinger
When Buzz Bissinger went after Will Leitch on Costas Now, he revealed a darker insecurity lurking in the heart of the modern sports writer: irrelevancy.
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There's No Place Like Home: Refocusing Olympic Protest
Olympic officials are trying to make sure that athletes are seen, but not heard, in Beijing. But, in the tradition of Olympics protest past, the focus of activist-athletes should hit a lot closer to home.
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The NFL Draft: From Fantasy to Farce
For fans, the pigskin meat market is mindless fun, but for young players, their lives picked apart and judged by people – both the experts on television and the soothsayers in the GM suites – the experience is somewhat less than a fantasy.
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Can the Warriors Help Save Oakland?
The Golden State Warriors are part of a program called Silence the Violence in Oakland High Schools. But they shouldn’t do this work in high schools alone.
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