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Sports Central
March 5, 2013
Brad Oremland |
A 2013 Look at Gays in Sports When gay athletes begin coming out, I suspect it will quickly become a trend: the more who open up, the easier it will get for others to do the same.   |
Sports Central
June 3, 2014
Brad Oremland |
Say No to the NFL's 18-Game Schedule National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell recently reiterated his intention to institute an 18-game regular season. It's a bad idea. |
Sports Central
May 3, 2011
Brad Oremland |
Boycotting the NFL Draft For now, the league is locking out the players with one hand and promoting its annual draft with the other. It's hypocrisy. It's not football, and it's not fun. Call me in September, Commissioner Goodell. |
Sports Central
June 21, 2011
Ryan Day |
Pittsburgh Steelers Rule Was Needed The NFL has a problem with hard hits and until the league makes a hard hit of their own, no one's going to pay attention. |
Sports Central
August 18, 2015
Brad Oremland |
Roger Goodell Sucks Some good things have happened during Roger Goodell's time as NFL commissioner. |
Salon.com
May 26, 2001
Steve Kettmann |
Baseball boyfriend? When Out magazine's editor claimed his lover plays in the majors, he set off a media frenzy. But it's only a matter of time before gays get their Jackie Robinson. |
Sports Central
February 12, 2014
Adam Russell |
Gay Athletes: One Day, It Won't Be a Big Deal I look forward to the day when a gay or bisexual athlete doesn't feel compelled to announce their personal life to the world -- no more than one would feel the need to announce their religious, dietary or political choices. |
Sports Central
January 31, 2011
Josh Galligan |
NFL Labor Dispute 101 The potential 2011 NFL Lockout means the Super Bowl may very well be the last NFL football we see in quite some time. |
AskMen.com
February 5, 2003
Mark Simmons |
Why The NFL Is So Fantastic As the NFL powers into the 21st century, it is head and shoulders above all other professional sports circuits. It is firing on all cylinders; both in terms of financial metrics and public relations goodwill. |
BusinessWeek
November 4, 2010
Kuriloff & Boudway |
NFL Owners and Players Are in a Pain Conflict Safety on the field has become a divisive issue in labor negotiations between team owners and the players' union. |
Sports Central
April 2, 2007
Mark Janzen |
Goodell Should Be Pacman's Ghost The NFL is making the correct steps to try to erase the "bad boy" behavior from the league. |
Sports Central
February 14, 2007
Bill Hazell |
John Amaechi's Coming Out Party John Amaechi withheld his secret of his homosexuality until his NBA career came to an official end only weeks ago. Whether that decision was wise, foolish, or ultimately necessary to survive depends on what NBA star you ask. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2007
Kyle Jahner |
Emerging From the Closet John Amaechi may have been the first to publicly state that he is homosexual, but he's definitely not the only one in sports. Do, or should, teams even care? |
Sports Central
March 27, 2007
Ryan Day |
Football is Not For the Well-Adjusted Looking for a more effective way to keep players out of the courtroom, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is expected this week to announce new strategies and more severe penalties for players that land in trouble with the law. |
Sports Illustrated
December 18, 2002
Jeffri Chadiha |
Strictly Business The Colts' Marvin Harrison quietly added the league's single-season receiving record to an impressive resume. |
Sports Central
May 2, 2013
Kevin Beane |
Jason Collins: Why it Matters There's been a feeling in the air that the first active openly gay athlete in a major North American team sport was coming very soon. That day has come, and the man of the hour is NBA veteran Jason Collins. |
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2011 |
DeMaurice Smith on the NFL Labor Dispute The NFL Players Assn. leader sees decertification as "the only decision they left us with." |
Sports Central
January 27, 2015
Brad Oremland |
NFL State of the Union The state of the NFL is strong, of course. It's the most popular sports league in North America, and it will remain so for the foreseeable future. But even a strong league has areas for improvement. |
Sports Central
March 16, 2010
Brad Oremland |
NFL or Bust Joshua "T-Boom" Johnson, 38, talks about his training and the NFL or Bust campaign. |
Sports Central
July 1, 2011
Jeffrey Boswell |
NFL Lockout: Crazy Days, Crazy Players NFL players and other sports personalities react to the ongoing lockout. |
Sports Central
May 11, 2010
Brad Oremland |
Infotainment Comes to Sports It seems like legal experts get more face time on ESPN these days than coaches and GMs do. With each passing year, less and less of SportsCenter is devoted to game highlights, while more and more of it is devoted to off-field transgressions. |
Sports Central
April 19, 2012
Louie Centanni |
A Solution to the Concussion Craze The concussion conundrum that has been at the forefront of the NFL and NHL over the past few years is a serious issue. |
Sports Central
May 31, 2007
Kyle Jahner |
Goodell: My House, My Rules? Just about every move new NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has initiated has been good for the game, especially his policy regarding off-field conduct. |
| AskMen.com |
Gay NFL Player Despite the increasing acceptance of gay men and women -- in the arts, in politics and even in the military -- it can still be a dangerous career move to out yourself, particularly if you're an athlete. |
Sports Central
August 5, 2014
Brad Oremland |
Does the NFL Take Domestic Violence Lightly? The National Football League has come under a lot of heat for its two-game suspension of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice. Rice was indicted on a charge of third-degree aggravated assault. |
Sports Central
August 3, 2011
Corrie Trouw |
Selling Canton Every year since 1967 (and the four years before 1966), the NFL season kicked off in Canton, Ohio, at least in spirit, if not chronologically. |
AskMen.com
Joel Balsam |
Weed In The NFL On the cusp of the most popular viewing event of the year, the Super Bowl, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is talking about marijuana. Why? |
AskMen.com
Brian DiTullio |
Ben Roethlisberger: The Public Trial As the NFL season kicks off, one off-season storyline shows no signs of slowing down: the saga of Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger. |
BusinessWeek
January 27, 2011
Paul Wachter et al. |
Super Bowl XLV: The NFL's Last Game? A labor dispute between the National Football League and its players is threatening to bleed billions in revenue - and possibly cancel the 2011-12 season. |
Sports Illustrated
December 22, 2000
Rick Reilly |
Everyone's offended Reader feedback on the Paralympics story, Bob Knight, Cubs fans, etc. |
Sports Illustrated
May 31, 2000 |
The martial artistes Sport, of course, evolved from warfare, and in many games, the athlete is still presumed to be a surrogate warrior. We in the grandstands, are, of course, unindicted conspirators, and our appreciation of violence is different only in degree from what you see the barbarous Roman populi cheering for in the current Gladiator movie... |
Sports Central
September 20, 2010
Justin Shagrin |
London Calling Is the NFL selling out because of its international game in London? |
Sports Central
February 20, 2006
Jeff Moore |
Playing the R-Card It seems this season more than any other teams weren't playing for dollars or division titles. They weren't even playing for the Super Bowl. They were playing for "respect." |
Sports Central
March 16, 2006
Brad Oremland |
The NFL's Best Triplets An assemblage of the NFL's 20 best trios ever -- quarterback, running back, wide receiver. |
Sports Central
June 19, 2007
Rich Lyons |
Patriots Mixing, Matching to Get By What are the New England Patriots going to do in order to keep their title hopes alive? |
Searcher
December 2010
Irene McDermott |
The Gridiron on the Web -- Football Online Am I doomed to be shut out from the world of football forever? No! The internet has arrived to save the day with zillions of sites to explain and celebrate American football. |
Salon.com
May 23, 2002
King Kaufman |
The gay Babe Ruth The first active major leaguer to come out of the closet may ruin his career -- or he could become a cultural hero... |
