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April 3, 2024
Alex Shephard
Our Entire Society Is Becoming Addicted to Sports Gambling
Athletes are being caught in scandals, yes, but the bigger scandal is that the ease and prevalence of betting is driving a huge rise in addiction—and neither the leagues nor our politicians care.
June 29, 2023
Mark Hill
A Billionaire Baseball Owner Failed to Extort Oakland, So He’s Scamming Nevada Instead
John Fisher, an heir to the Gap fortune, is being handed hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to screw over A’s fans by moving his team to Las Vegas.
June 20, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Far Right and Catholics Team Up to Protest Baseball
Portraying the Dodgers game protest as one led by “religious groups” is technically correct, but it fails to communicate the threat of political violence some of the organizers openly embrace.
April 19, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Have Ruined Sports for Republicans
The favorability of the MLB, NBA, and NFL has sharply dropped on the right, thanks to culture warriors like Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson.
May 20, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Is Baseball Safe?
Just because we may get a baseball season doesn’t mean we deserve one.
May 11, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Bittersweet Return of Sports
South Korean baseball and German soccer are reminders of how far we still are from normalcy.
December 3, 2019
David Roth
The Smartest Guys in the Clubhouse
How the McKinsey-fied Astros cheated their way to a championship—and became a parable of American success
September 22, 2016
Stacia L. Brown
Fox’s
Pitch
Is Not Pure Fiction
Recalling the three black women who gender-integrated the Negro Leagues.
September 21, 2016
Joyce Millman
Outside Baseball
Fox's new drama about a woman in Major League Baseball, 'Pitch' aims to tell an uplifting story of female empowerment. But is it realistic?
June 3, 2016
Jeff Passan
The False Hope of Tommy John Surgery
How the surgical fix for an overworked elbow is creating more problems than it solves.
May 9, 2016
Adam Peck
Trolls aren’t the only ones who abuse female sports reporters on social media.
March 22, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
President Obama is watching a ball game in Cuba.
March 9, 2016
Alex Shephard
Former New York Yankees outfielders love Donald Trump.
January 26, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump just got endorsed by the dude who inspired Kenny Powers.
August 17, 2015
Adam Nathaniel Peck
Stop Burdening LGBT Athletes By Demanding Greatness
An ESPN panelist says Brewers minor leaguer David Denson, who came out on Saturday, "better be great" if he wants to make a difference
May 5, 2015
Robert Silverman
The Knicks' Owner Just Put a Notorious Sexual Harasser in Charge of a WNBA Team
April 21, 2015
Erik Malinowski
The Future of Binge TV Belongs to America's Oldest Sport
October 30, 2014
John B. Judis
The Giants Have a Big Payroll, but It's Not Why They Won the World Series
Management trumped money in the 2014 postseason.
October 5, 2014
Mark Varga
Chris Christie's Quest to Legalize Sports Gambling Could Destroy Professional Athletics
April 24, 2014
Marc Tracy
Michael Pineda’s Foul Ball
Why was the Yankees pitcher suspended for breaking a rule that everyone breaks?
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