Chicago’s Olympic disappointment
As a sports fan, I absolutely love watching the Olympic Games and have done so since the Grenoble Winter and Mexico City Summer Games. I love the fact that when the Games are happening, we are...
Category: Sports
Nick Love’s “The Firm” remake suffers from lack of Oldman
There has been one successful remake of an Alan Clarke film, Gus Van Sant’s 2003 film “Elephant.” Transporting the sectarian killings of Northern Ireland to high-school slayings in America was...
Eudy Simelane: corrective rape, corrective death
Eudy Simelane was an athlete and a lesbian. In a perfect world that validated love in all of its forms, her sexuality would be a non-issue. In South Africa, however, identifying as a lesbian (or...
Superheroines, sports and sexuality: or, why can’t we be both?
Gina Carano might have appeared on the show American Gladiator, where she wore a spandex costume and goes by a superhero nickname, “Crush,” but her real job is Muay Thai and mixed martial arts...
Is Serena Williams the new Sarah Baartman?
Venus and Serena Williams have dominated tennis since their first appearance in the nineties. Despite being champions many times over, they are still not given the respect that their accomplishment...
Wimbledon Men’s Final: a triumph for tennis and Roger Federer
The debates started almost as soon the ball left Andy Roddick’s racket to lob high over his opponent and land several feet behind the baseline. Had Roger Federer sealed his place in sporting...
A note to the world: we DO play football in the States!
To the average American sports fan, football is played with two eleven member teams of massive men struggling to score with an oblong ball on a striped 100 by 53 yard field with U-shaped goalposts at...
A slap in the face for female Zenit Fans
American readers, please note that the word "football" is used here instead of the word "soccer." The soundtrack of the initial years of my life was often comprised of the din of football chants on...
Michael Phelps vs. The Large Hadron Collider
It’s been an amazing year so far, a year for records, accomplishments, and individual triumphs that have shaken the world. We all watched the Olympics, in which dedicated athletes would compete...
America, Victorious
One late night during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, as the swimmer Michael Phelps smashed yet another world record, I walked through Philadelphia thinking over its history and was struck by how well...