The Gold (double) Standard: An open letter to Olympic sponsors
NEAR THE CONCLUSION of the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Games in London, athletes took an oath. An oath that they would not cheat, that they would respect and abide by rules which govern their...
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Dublin, 1971 MARY QUINN IS ABOUT TO WIN the national varsity women’s title. Again. She is a dominant woman on the court with dominant thighs. She has a penetrating forehand and an incredible short...
View ArticleBlood, Sweat, and Years: Andy Murray and the US Open
How Hollywood, Hitler, a gay Nazi poster boy, and US OPEN tennis champion, Andy Murray, star in one of sport’s greatest grail quests. IN 1934, SHORTLY AFTER ADOLF HITLER’s rise to power, German...
View ArticleHockey Night in Ramallah
IN HOCKEY, there are red lines, blue lines, and goal lines. But there is only one Green Line. The Green Line is an armistice line drawn after the Arab-Israeli war in 1949 and forms the basis of a...
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“To you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high.” — Jason Priestley Dear Ms. Wente, A fire is burning in the sports world—for you, where you are cordially invited to join our...
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A hat trick haiku hockey retrospective on the worst day in hockey, when Marc Crawford left hockey’s greatest player, Wayne Gretzky, on the bench during the shootout at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Alone...
View ArticleThe Call That Saved Canada: Anniversary Edition
EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s almost nothing that will alienate a person more from their peers than a conspiracy theory, but for some reason, these people persist, clinging to their version of the truth. Why...
View ArticleThe Dumbest F*ck!ng Sport On All Of Planet Earth
The following was originally published July 15, 2012 NOW BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I know what you’re thinking: I’m about to piss all over history. I’m going to take a storied pastime from our...
View ArticleWhy Are We Dumping Stoli When We Should Be Dumping Coke?
“Fundamental Principles of Olympism #5. Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the...
View ArticleThe Great Gottfried
Did a Gay German Tennis Star Throw the Davis Cup to Spite Hitler? If all the world’s a stage then the cast of the great international pre-war epic, The Greatest Tennis Match in History, might feel too...
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“To you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high.” — Jason Priestley Dear Ms. Wente, A fire is burning in the sports world—for you, where you are cordially invited to join our...
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