Why is a bankrupt city building a new $650 million “hockey arena district” to house the Detroit Red Wings?
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Take Me Out with the Crowd
Can numbers-happy fantasy sports replace team play as a metaphor for the American way of living?
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Obama’s Sports Bloopers
His loss to Chris Christie at a carnival football-toss game Tuesday was one of several occassions where the president fell short in his athletic endeavors.
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Gay on the Gridiron
Jason Collins’ coming out was a step in the right direction, but only an openly gay NFL player will make the kind of impact needed to truly challenge prejudice in American sports.
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Obama: Jason Collins Is a Terrific Young Man
“One of the extraordinary measures of progress that we’ve seen in this country has been the recognition that the LGBT community deserves full equality,” the president said at a press conference today. “I’m very proud of him,” Obama said of the first openly gay NBA player.
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Are Gay Guys Checking You Out in the Locker Room?
NBA player Jason Collins’s decision to come out has homophobes in a panic. Here’s why straight dudes need to chill out.
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Coming Out of the Locker Room
There are hints we might soon see the first openly gay major league sports player. But are the fans ready?
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Happy Jackie Robinson Day
Sixty-six years ago today-when Martin Luther King Jr. was only 18 and the Greensboro sit-ins were over a decade off-number 42 took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the Major League color line.
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Fox News Fears America’s “Wussification”
After the release of a video showing him verbally and physically abusing his players, Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice was fired two days ago-much to some conservative commentators’ chagrin. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook
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Football, Body and Mind
A sportswriter looks back on his history with America’s favorite pastime.