Why Home Runs Are Bad for Baseball
The nonstop dingers are a hit with the fans, but at what cost to the sport?
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Will There Ever Be an Openly Queer NHL Player?
In hockey culture, male aggression is valorized while any weakness, real or perceived, is weaponized
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Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture
Social media has democratized skateboarding by inviting in a new audience unaware of the “rules”
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Sports under Quarantine
With the closure of arenas, a sports fan laments the loss of community
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How the World Anti-Doping Agency Betrays Honest Athletes
When the highest authority on cheating is compromised, what happens to athletes who play by the rules?
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Raptors, Race, and Belonging
How the 2019 NBA championship helped create a vision for a new nation
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When Male Runners Lose to Women
Conventional wisdom has long asserted men outperform women in long-distance races. Ultramarathon results prove that assumption wrong
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How Analytics Will Help Win the Next Stanley Cup
A new generation of data nerds is redefining what makes a great hockey player
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How the Cycle of Sports Stardom Turns Heroes into Has-Beens
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is the best baseball prospect on earth. But being the future of a sport means condemning someone else’s career to the past
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