Install
Sports and Politics blog
Taxpayer-funded stadiums are the billion-dollar bet cities keep losing Economists rarely agree, yet most find public stadium money does not deliver the growth promised. The financing, the arithmetic and the civic-pride case. Why Title IX Kept Separate Teams for Women in the First Place The 1975 regulations let schools field separate teams by sex because otherwise women would lose roster spots and titles, and that reason still holds. Fairness for Female Athletes Is a Civil Rights Argument, Made With Respect Sex-based sports categories are a civil-rights position, rooted in Title IX and sport's own logic. The case, the strongest objection, and the answer. Why We Play the Anthem Before Games, From the 1918 World Series On The anthem at the ballpark began in a wartime World Series in 1918. The history explains why the ritual is worth keeping, and worth explaining to children. Should Athletes Keep Politics Off the Field? Conservatives Disagree Conservatives split on kneeling, anthems and league rules. Both sides get a fair hearing here, and the answer is one rule applied to every cause. Jesse Owens in Berlin and the Honours His Own Country Was Slow to Give Jesse Owens beat the Nazi racial myth on its own track in 1936, then waited decades for his country to say thank you. What that wait teaches about merit.