SHARE        Saturday, November 19, 2011
NBA Players: Welcome to the 99 Percent Maybe it's because they overwhelmingly come from the ranks of the working poor, have career lengths of six years and have been facing off against the ranks of true generational, aristocratic wealth in all it's arrogance. Maybe they just hate to lose. NBA players: welcome to the 99 percent.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 10, 2011
Penn State and Berkeley: A Tale of Two Protests Last night, two proud universities saw student demonstrations that spiraled into violence. On the campus of Penn State University in State College Pennsylvania, several hundred students rioted in anger after the firing of legendary 84-year-old head football coach Joe Paterno. At the University of California at Berkeley, 1,000 students, part of the Occupy USA movement, attempted to maintain their protest encampment

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 9, 2014
The Revictimizing of Janay Rice The lack of concern for Janay Rice now that the video of Ray Rice knocking her unconscious has been released is truly troubling.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 2, 2011
Sports, bin Laden, and the New Normal Howard Cosell said that "rule number one of the sports jockocracy" was that sports and politics didn't mix. And yet last night, at the ballpark in Philadelphia, we received another reminder that some political expression is deemed not just acceptable but glorious.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 25, 2013
Seeing 'New Jim Crow' Placards Seized by Police & More From the March on Washington 'New Jim Crow' Placards Seized by Police & More From the March on Washington | Common Dreams

SHARE        Friday, January 27, 2012
The Final Insult: Nike CEO Phil Knight Eulogizes Joe Paterno The celebration of Knight's message by Jena MacGregor and the attendees is another example why so much of the country looks at Happy Valley, Pennsylvania like some kind of moral Bizarro World. It also drowns out the thousands of Penn State students who held vigils on campus against child abuse or the Penn State alums "sickened" by both the allegations against Sandusky as well as the response by those alumni and students...

SHARE        Friday, October 10, 2014
Former Chicago Bears GM: The League Has Ignored 'Hundreds and Hundreds' of Domestic Violence Cases If there is any justice, these revelations by longtime general manager Jerry Angelo will lead to an investigation and the firing of Roger Goodell.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 12, 2011
Brick by BRIC: How Global Sport Has Declared War on Brazil's Poor In Chile, it was called the The Brick. It was the many-thousand page economic manifesto of Dictator Augusto Pinochet, written by "the Chicago Boys" - Chilean exchange students from the University of Chicago. Disciples of the university's conservative, neoliberal economics professor Milton Friedman, they printed The Brick on "the other 9/11" - September 11th, 1973.

SHARE        Monday, October 29, 2018
A Call for Solidarity in the Face of Hate When so many groups are under attack, a collective response is the only response. We need loud rallies against racism. We need speak-outs for immigrants. We need to say that trans rights are human rights. We need public meetings about what fascism is and how to fight it. We need to provide security and ensure safe spaces for groups that are attempting to come together.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 17, 2013
"America Justice System is a Joke": athletes respond to Trayvon Martin verdict In February 2012, the stalking and murder of Trayvon Martin affected pro athletes -- particularly African American athletes - in a way that perhaps can be best described as intimate.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 4, 2013
On Alex Rodriguez & "The Best Interests of the Game" Let's forget for a moment that A-Rod will potentially take a bigger hit for "cheating" than Goldman-Sachs, and focus on the baseball issues at play.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 19, 2005
When Fists are Frozen: The Statue of Tommie Smith and John Carlos In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we need our anti-racist history and our anti-racist heroes now more than ever. We need more fists gumming up the works.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 7, 2008
Common Bond for Uncommon Men: Roberto Clemente and Martin Luther King As we remember the 40th anniversary of that dark day of April 4th 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, it's worth recalling the reaction by Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star Roberto Clemente.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 3, 2008
The Senator from Comcast?: Arlen Specter and SpyGate As Will Bunch wrote in the Philadelphia Daily News, "If you simply took Specter at face value, and assumed his passion for grilling the NFL in his official Senate capacity is the passion of a jilted fan, that alone would be an outrageous abuse of his authority. But the truth is much worse, because Specter's interest in this issue dovetails far too closely with those of his two largest contributors...

SHARE        Monday, November 11, 2013
Jay Glazer's Interview With Richie Incognito Was Sports Journalism at Its Worst what the hell is any journalist doing having "side jobs" with anyone they are supposed to be covering and why is this acceptable to Glazer's bosses?*

SHARE        Friday, June 19, 2015
Charleston's 'Mother Emanuel Church' Has Stared Down Racist Violence for 200 Years The more you read about Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, otherwise known as "Mother Emanuel," the more awe you feel for its historic resilience amidst white-supremacist terror.

SHARE        Wednesday, September 21, 2011
TODAY, Georgia Murders Troy Davis It's with rage that I report that the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday denied clemency for Troy Anthony Davis. The 42-year-old Davis is now due to be executed TODAY, Wednesday September 21, at 7 pm . For those unfamiliar with the case, let's be clear: Davis's execution is little more than a legal lynching.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 23, 2012
Joe Paterno: The God Who Fell to Earth For Joe Paterno to say & actually expect us to accept that he "never heard of rape and a man" is ludicrous & offensive. It reveals how dangerous & misquided our obssession with celebrities can be.