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Category Archives: sports
Vancouver Games & gender: Lindsay Vonn to Johnny Weir
Women are as guilty as anyone else when it comes to not supporting women's sports.
Also posted in Current Affairs, women Tagged frank deford, gender, ice hockey, johnny weir, laura mulvey, lindsay vonn, vancouver, winter olympics 4 Comments
How to apologize: a primer from Tiger Woods
There’s a sexy “downward dog” joke somewhere in all of this, and I just can’t seem to find it.
Also posted in Current Affairs, humor, north america Tagged elin nordgren, golf, tiger woods 1 Comment
Vancouver Games & First Nations resistance
Native participation is only welcomed when it coincides with the Canadian colonial agenda.
Also posted in Columnist, Society, north america, racism Tagged canada, first nations, olympic games, vancouver 5 Comments
Rethinking Work: sports as labor
"These guys are America's gladiators."
Also posted in Society, north america Tagged new orleans saints, peyton manning, super bowl, u.s. 2 Comments
Winter Olympics: why Team USA is nearly white as snow
Why the imbalance of African-Americans in Winter and Summer Games participation?
Also posted in Current Affairs, north america Tagged debi thomas, jeff gadley, monica roberts, race, shani davis, team usa, u.s., vancouver, vonetta flowers, willie davenport, winter olympics 32 Comments
Tiger Woods gets no love from the Black community, again
"The question everyone in America wants to ask you is, how many white women does one brother want?"
Also posted in Current Affairs, Society, family, north america Tagged golf, race, tiger woods, u.s. 15 Comments
The bitter fallout of France vs. Ireland
Roy Keane has been a sobering voice.
Reconcile U.S. football culture with progressive politics? Yeah, right
Networks of conservative white men almost universally prefer other conservative white men as football head coaches.
Also posted in Society, north america, politics Tagged domestic violence, football, michael vick, NCAA, NFL, u.s., workers' rights 4 Comments
Chicago’s Olympic disappointment
We were eliminated in the first round.
Also posted in Society, north america Tagged brazil, monica roberts, olympic games, u.s. Leave a comment
The Olympics: celebrating or denigrating our common humanity?