“I sure like you AIMs” Alan Houser would say to me. Those who knew understood how important this movement is. Having Russell Means pass is like watching a thunderstorm move away. His gift was that of the lightening strike. Often criticized, but never ignored. Carry his memory on your shoulders or choose to disagree, Russell Means [...]
Russell Means: “It’s abominable. And I’m telling you. Chief Wahoo has got to go.”
Interviewer: “Why would the changing of the name of a team and the changing of a logo change the social problems that you are talking about. How would that have any correlation whatsoever.”
Russell Means: “It will begin the changing of [...]
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 [...]
The National Hockey League should be starting the most grueling regular season in sports this month, but instead it has announced that games will be canceled. The owners have locked out the players for the third time in 16 years. The last lockout cost us the entire 2004-05 season. It was only the second time [...]
The NFL referees went from scabs-to-settlement, and Dave Zirin — sports writer for The Nation and Edge of Sports — was all over it all week long! What happened, why it happened, and why it’s so much bigger than sports. From before “The Inaccurate Reception” of Monday night to the NFL [...]
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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Donovan McNabb is still seeking an NFL job, and never before in NFL history has a quarterback so accomplished found himself so suddenly unemployed. In quieter news, 31-year old quarterback John Beck made the Houston Texans team despite an 0-7 career record with a 67.6 passer rating. In the NFL, there are no white [...]
When I went to Haiti with a delegation from Veterans For Peace to work on demilitarizing the relief effort I never expected to get swept up by kids playing soccer and basketball, but that’s exactly what happened. In the middle of Cite Soleil, the poorest slum in Haiti’s capital of Port Au Prince, there is [...]
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