Armstrong’s Latest Woes; We will…we will..rock you.; Dodgeball!; Poinsettia Bowl and More with Charlie Pierce; Tennis Showcase

I’m glad I read Dave Zirin’s “What’s My Name, Fool?” for lots of reasons, one of which is that on page 105 he wrote that in 1972, three hundred active National Football League players signed a statement condemning the on-going criminal disaster that was the Vietnam War

The NCAA has decided that the university’s use of the nickname “Seminoles” isn’t nearly as “hostile and abusive” as the organization had thought it was last week…

WNBA; Dimtriy Salita; Ferret Agility Trials; The NHL on OLN; Letters; The Mascot Hall of Fame and More With Charlie Pierce; The Guinness Book of Me

Football, already the eight hundred pound gorilla of sports in this country, is determined to get bigger.

The Guinness Book of Me is the memoir of a man who spent a lot of time reading, thinking, and fantasizing about the people immortalized by their weird achievements.

John Powers; Faster, Higher, Stronger, Poorer; Bedlam in Belgium; NCAA Mascot Flap; Cool Carts; Roundup; How To Use the Talkback Button and More With Charlie Pierce; Death and the Sun

Edward Lewine acknowledges that many bullfights are sloppy, most of them are disappointing, and a lot of them are gruesome.

Come the month of August, working’s quite another thing,
For as I type, I know a little west of here the king
Of sports – or sport of kings – whichever – is transpiring daily at Saratoga. Horses run, and all of them would pay me

Red Scare?; Cardinal Sunrise; Dog Paddling; Gay Games Vs. Outgames; Junior Dragsters; Hot Free Agent Markets and More with Charlie Pierce; Inside the Cage