The president declines to throw out baseball’s ceremonial first pitch on Monday and face a certain barrage of boos.
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‘Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American’
A new exhibit spotlights American Jews and the fight for equality in baseball.
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The Jackie Robinson Story: Ken Burns Documentary Captures the Man and the Movement
The Ken Burns documentary airing on PBS this week demonstrates how the fight to break baseball’s racial barrier went beyond Robinson’s personal heroism and rested on a broad political movement.
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The U.S. Won the World Cup—Can We Take Women’s Sports Seriously Now?
On Sunday night-surely you know by now-the United States Women’s National Team won the World Cup with a high-scoring 5–2 victory over Japan. What has gotten just as much attention as the match itself-and rightfully so-is the pay disparity between men and women’s sports. The U.S. Women’s Team took home $2 million for their third […]
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March Madness: How Title IX Just Totally Rocked Your Sunday
During Women’s History Month, it’s important to remember how recently female athletes were excluded from college basketball.
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5 Ways to Bring Fairness Into College Basketball
March Madness now brings in more cash than the Super Bowl, but its star players won’t see a dime.
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Photo of the Day, Sports Proletariat Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Michael Russell competing in the qualifying rounds of the Australian Open. Qualifying is a tournament-before-the-tournament, where players not highly ranked enough to get automatic berths compete for the last few spots in the main draw. Russell, a 36-year-old American starting his 18th year on the tour, is currently ranked 156th in […]
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Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests
The ‘are you black enough?’ question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites.
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All of a Piece: Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the Supreme Court of the United States
This past week has been hell for African Americans. So much for post-racialism.
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Daily Meme: Post-Racial America From Hell
It’s been quite a week in post-racial America, beginning with a Supreme Court decision on Tuesday that upheld the results of a ballot measure that barred the use of race-based affirmative action in the admissions process used by the University of Michigan, and exploded this weekend with the utterances, attributed to NBA team-owner Donald Sterling […]
