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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thank God for the existence of Iker Casillas. The Spanish keeper, team captain, and Legolas-like wonderboy made the final bearable for me. Casillas made me think back to 2002, when this unusually...
