Earlier today in a Sports Illustrated expose, the NBA’s Jason Collins announced that he was gay, and the tremendous support from other professional players has seemed to outweigh the condemnation so far (again — so far). Within a few hours, over 40 players tweeted their support for [...]
Part III of Bernard King: The NBA’s Invisible Genius
“Hubie, do I have the right to take the ball myself?” – Bernard King
For Knick and Golden State Warrior fans, King’s 1984 rise from star to sublime was not surprising or meteoric. Don’t call it a hot streak, Bernard had been there [...]
Part II of Bernard King: The NBA’s Invisible Genius
“What he did to us I had never seen before. We caught him in the middle of a three-year stretch where he was playing better than any small forward in the history of the game.” – Isiah Thomas
G – Magic
G – Isiah
F – Larry
F – Bernard
C – Kareem/Moses
No last names are necessary.
These men make up the 1st team All-NBA stars in Bernard King’s last two Knick seasons before he blew out his knee in March 1985 – the same year he [...]
SI Swimsuit Issue Repost from 2012 by Charles Modiano:
Before today’s big Olympic victory, the US Women’s Gymnastics Team already won their media gold medal by landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated (SI) [1]. Does this represent a new SI era after a well-celebrated 40th anniversary [...]
Remembering the Summer of 2004
(Reprint-Aug. 2012): Lance Armstrong will not contest USADA’s charges of his alleged doping and is set to be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. This comes eight years after David Walsh wrote “L.A. Confidential: The Secrets of Lance Armstrong” that went unpublished and categorically dismissed [...]
Like music and film, sports is one of the very few national (and international) conversations that exist, but is the cultural platform of sports respected enough by American Universities? This question is one thatProfessor Theresa Runstedtler, author of Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner suggests that more can be done. In the
This week Sports Illustrated issued its investigative cover story about Tyrann Mathieu who was kicked off his LSU team for smoking marijuana. Last week a 1000-page scathing USADA report detailed how Lance Armstrong operated “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen” that included 11 witnesses, bitter [...]
Which unlucky baseball team will make the Sports Illustrated cover on Wednesday? Last week the infamous SI Cover Jinx claimed the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals in cruel and excruciating fashion after an October cover hailed their newfound resurgence. Only the cover-less Tigers, Yankees, Cardinals, and Giants still remain in the playoffs this season. While many Baltimore-Washington [...]
In what universe is the standard of proof 100 times easier to legally put a man to death than to conclude that a cyclist was doping?… Today marks the one year anniversary of Troy Davis’ execution by the state of Georgia despite the fact that seven of nine witnesses recanted their original testimony.
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Serena Wins 50th Title!
TELL GOODELL: NO MORE RACISM
THE LAST CLOSET
