None of the gymnast’s suddenly frothing critics actually care about gymnastics or the Olympics. They’re just outrage junkies desperate for a fix.

The Apple TV series’ debut season provided simple comfort during dark times in 2020. But the honeymoon is over for the second season.

The new LeBron James–Looney Tunes crossover movie isn’t just bad. It’s a harbinger of worse to come.

They’ve long been a financial boondoggle that ruins lives and enriches the corporate class. This year, they might also spread a deadly Covid variant among a largely unvaccinated population.

As higher education goes broke, expensive sports teams are a luxury that colleges can’t afford.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in NCAA v. Alston has put the end of the organization’s exploitation of college athletes in sight.

It turns out that soccer’s pundit class doesn’t really want to hear from the fans, even after the Super League debacle.

The favorability of the MLB, NBA, and NFL has sharply dropped on the right, thanks to culture warriors like Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson.

Their tactics mirror those employed by white mothers who fought school integration: disguising bigotry with pleas to protect children.

If there is a silver lining to 2020, it’s the reminder that even the toughest fights in Indian Country can have a happy ending.

The millionaire players’ anti-racist protest shows how race and class are intertwined for Black Americans.

The players were done with the league’s empty spectacle of “solidarity.”

With Covid-19 throttling the entertainment industry, basketball is caught in the crosshairs of the culture war.

What started as a compelling push for athletes’ rights has turned into a political sideshow drowning out the players’ demands.

With nobody else looking out for them, college athletes are banding together and taking a stand against the cash-happy league.

The resumption of the NBA season could have been a watershed moment for labor. What happened?

The Miami Marlins are dealing with a Covid-19 outbreak, and the NBA is flirting with disaster in its “bubble.” What did team owners think would happen?

Plutocratic interests and the coronavirus crisis have made “Value Over Replacement Human” baseball’s hottest new statistic.

Once the slurs and caricatures are gone, we’re left to reconcile the erasure, tokenization, and colonization that exist beyond them.

Publishing an anti-Native slur is a choice. It’s time for the media to stop following NFL owner Dan Snyder’s lead and take a stand.