The meteoric rise and fall of Quarterback Kenny Pickett in Pittsburgh in less than two short years (actually, in Pickett’s case, less than a year and a half of games) is taking the NFL by storm. Personally, it’s the most…
The Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will soon compete for the National Football League championship title. Over 200 million people are expected to watch the game, and many will participate in small wagers, office pools, and fantasy…
They pounded another nail into the coffin that is traditional amateur athletics on Monday. “They” is an amorphous actor, to be sure, comprising athletes, power brokers, agents, the courts, the government, and general mucky-mucks dissatisfied with a model of amateur…
Compilations of “the most politically influential and outspoken” athletes crop up here and there occasionally. They list activists like Billie Jean King, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos, as well as overpaid, modern, but still outdated ones like Megan Rapinoe and…
The Hail Mary pass. It’s a desperate, last-ditch attempt by a football team to score a touchdown in the waning seconds of the game. The pass usually comes from near midfield, well outside of the typical scoring zone, and, as…
I helped bring some holiday cheer to the Internet with the research paper I co-authored demonstrating that sex differences in sports performance persist regardless of gender self-identification. “Obvious” was probably the most used word in tweets and headlines related to…
“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” Such were the immortal words of wisdom of the grim Dean Wormer to Kent “Flounder” Dorfman, the — well — fat, drunk, and stupid frat boy in the…
Maybe it was the media saturation and attendant pundit adoration of Deion Sanders, Colorado’s new football coach, that spurred LeBron James’ ego into action. Coach Prime has been sucking a fair bit of the oxygen out of the sporting-world room…
No matter how sincere the efforts to make sports “inclusive,” every inclusion initiative ends with the reality that sports exclude. USA Cycling wanted to “prioritize the balance between fairness and inclusion” when developing its latest Transgender Participation Policy. Its solution…
It’s been two years since college athletes have been allowed to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL), and the chaotic “wild West” of college sports was the promised result has exceeded expectations to the point where the U.S….