Sports

The New York Times can’t stop trolling Philadelphia

In 1968, Eagles fans threw snowballs at Santa. Decades later, the New York Times can't stop writing about it

Ej Dickson Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 6:30 PM UTC 47
Life New York Times, Philadelphia

Frank Luntz hired by Washington football team to convince people name isn’t horribly racist

Republican pollster hired by football team with disgusting name

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 229
Politics Opening Shot, Frank Luntz, NFL

Can Ultimate Frisbee go mainstream?

While it's evolved over the past few years, Ultimate may ultimately be an outsider sport -- and that's OK

Eli Neugeboren, The Classical Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 12:57 PM UTC
Life The Classical, Sports

Baseball’s war on drugs going about as well as government’s

Pro sport acts like the feds, gets similar results in attempt to eradicate drug use

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 12:51 PM UTC 19
Politics Opening Shot, Baseball

Broken collarbone? Just roll with it

When I first picked up roller derby, I never guessed I'd come to relish its brutal violence

NICOLE MATOS, The Classical Sunday, Jun 2, 2013 5:00 PM UTC
Life The Classical, Roller Derby

Spelling bees make trolls of us all

The Scripps Spelling Bee brings out the worst in online commenters. Its tween contestants deserve more respect

Alan Hanson, The Classical Saturday, Jun 1, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 20
Life The Classical

Pic of the day: French Open fury

Melanie Oudin unleashes an especially vicious groundstroke against China's Jie Zheng at Roland Garros Thursday

Jacob Sugarman Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:41 PM UTC
Entertainment Pic of the day, French Open

Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays: The best rivalry of baseball’s golden age

Who was better: Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? Fifty years after their rookie season, we're still debating it

Allen Barra Monday, May 27, 2013 9:26 PM UTC 33
Entertainment Baseball, Books, Sports

Beer and loathing at the Preakness Stakes

How I braved the drunken hordes, public bathrooms and mediocre performances (Hello Macklemore!) at Pimlico

Daniel B. Roberts, The Classical Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:00 PM UTC
Life The Classical, preakness stakes

Radio host tweets rape joke, blames journalists for reporting on it

Kevin Ryder, a DJ on LA's KROQ, made a crack about sexual assault while tweeting from the LA Kings' account VIDEO

Chase Hoffberger, The Daily Dot Wednesday, May 22, 2013 9:50 PM UTC
Technology Video, the daily dot, la kings

David Beckham retiring from soccer

He'll play his last game May 26

Prachi Gupta Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:41 PM UTC
Entertainment Soccer, Football, david beckham

Little rituals really do work

New research reveals that the symbolic acts we perform aren't as irrational as they appear

Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton, Scientific American Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:37 PM UTC
Life Scientific American

ESPN’s plan to kill net neutrality

Allowing the sports network to buy its way free of data caps on your mobile device is a very bad idea

Andrew Leonard Monday, May 13, 2013 5:56 PM UTC 32
Technology ESPN, net neutrality, telecom

NFL commissioner on gay players: Teammates and fans will “respond the right way”

Roger Goodell says the NFL is ready for its first out player, saying "we're accepting of our differences" VIDEO

Katie Mcdonough Friday, May 10, 2013 3:37 PM UTC
Life Video, LGBT Rights, Sports

Transgender students press high school athletics to become more inclusive

With a small but growing number of transgender students trying out for high school sports, policies must change

Katie Mcdonough Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:12 PM UTC 18
Life LGBT Rights, transgender rights

Jason Collins’ ex-fiancée to write a memoir about his coming out

Former WNBA player Carolyn Moos will reflect on her "recent life events about her former fiancé"

Prachi Gupta Monday, May 6, 2013 10:07 PM UTC
Entertainment jason collins, Memoir, Books

179 pro athletes’ reactions to Jason Collins

Support for the first openly gay male professional athlete has been almost unanimous

Cyd Zeigler, Outsports Monday, May 6, 2013 6:50 PM UTC
Life outsports, jason collins

Chris Broussard doesn’t matter

Unpacking his hateful remarks about Jason Collins, and why it's in our best interest to simply ignore them

David Roth and Brendan Flynn, The Classical Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:55 PM UTC
Social The Classical, jason collins

Jason Collins’ ex-fiancé: I didn’t know he was gay

Carolyn Moos, who was in an 8-year relationship with the star, only learned of his sexual orientation days ago

Prachi Gupta Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 9:12 PM UTC 14
Entertainment jason collins, coming out, Gay

I cried when Jason Collins came out

As a gay man who covers sports, Collins' revelation deeply affected me. But the fight for equality isn't over

Cyd Zeigler, Outsports Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 8:45 PM UTC
Social jason collins, LGBT, Sports

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