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July 27, 2023
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Saudi Arabia’s Dizzying Scheme to Devour the Sports World
The kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are remaking global culture.
June 16, 2023
Yet Another Golf Scandal: The Woefully Undertaxed Site of This Year’s U.S. Open
The Saudis aren’t golf’s only problem. The Los Angeles Country Club shouldn’t even exist.
June 7, 2023
Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing With the PGA-LIV Golf Tour Merger Isn’t a Done Deal
Here are the ten people who could stop this merger, if they wanted to.
June 6, 2023
The PGA Bends the Knee to Saudi Arabia
The lesson from the LIV Golf takeover of pro golf is that sportswashing works.
June 10, 2022
The Grotesque Sportswashing of the Saudi Golf League
The clumsy kickoff of this ill-starred competitor of the PGA has been a window into a tawdriness that infects international sports.
October 2, 2020
The President and His Country Club Pals Still Have the Best Defense Against Covid
It’s easy to forgo a mask when you know your wealth probably insulates you from the worst effects of the pandemic.
November 13, 2019
The Vainglorious Eternals Go Golfing
What a 2008 photo tells us about American political life in 2019
September 6, 2017
The easiest way to get Trump’s ear? Paying to play at one of his golf clubs.
April 8, 2016
Why Is the U.S. Map on the Masters’ Logo So Wrong?
A cartographic mystery.
December 20, 2015
Obama played golf instead of watching the Democratic debate tonight.
June 22, 2015
Every American Golf Course Should Look Like This Year's U.S. Open
January 19, 2014
The Mistake That Doomed The Grantland Story About a Putter
March 21, 2013
Tiger’s Beat
The joylessness of watching Tiger Woods, the world’s once-best athlete
December 9, 2009
Tigergate Isn't a Black Thing -- Despite What Some Would Prefer
December 9, 2009
How Is Tiger Woods "Racial"? And Isn't That Progress?
November 30, 2009
The Retro Man
February 3, 1986
Uneasy Holiday
How should we honor a man we still don't know?
January 1, 1970
Mr. More and the Mithraic Bull

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