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Boss's Boycott: The Bonds Vanishes

Boss’s Boycott: The Bonds Vanishes: Can a man who led baseball in on base percentage, walks, and was third in home runs per at-bats, really be denied a job? He can if his name is Barry Bonds. The historical echoes would make a 20th century genocide artists very proud.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shedding Light on the Torch

China and it’s cronies in the International Olympic Committee are bemoaning the way the running of the Olympic torch has turned into a site for international protest. But anyone who knows the tradition of the Olympic torch, would find protests all too appropriate.

Common Bond for Uncommon Men: Roberto Clemente and Martin Luther King

As we remember the 40th anniversary of that dark day, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, it's worth recalling the reaction – and the reasons behind the reaction - by Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star Roberto Clemente.

Washington DC's Sporting Shock Doctrine

Sunday saw the opening of a taxpayer funded, $600 million stadium in Washington DC. Whatever your feelings on baseball, the new ballpark is yet more shock treatment to a city twitching from constant gentrification.

China's Brutal Olympic Echo

China’s brutal crackdown in Tibet has revealed that Western leaders are more interested in covering for China than standing for human rights. It also reveals that pre-Olympic repression is as much of a tradition as the lighting of the torch.

Brett Favre: The Restricted Archetype

Brett Favre had an undeniably brilliant career. But his flaws have been airbrushed out of existence, his every flaw a beauty mark. They are flaws that could only be ignored on a Caucasian quarterback.