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Sports Illustrated June 19, 2002 Frank Deford |
Solving the Title IX problem Making football a separate entity would benefit both sexes. |
Sports Illustrated March 22, 2000 |
Football is the real villain The NCAA tournament always draws an inordinate amount of critical interest about how much money is involved in college athletics... |
AskMen.com June 19, 2013 Ian Lang |
Golf Is Under-Appreciated Golf may not require great physical strength or endurance, but the training, repetition and raw coordination required to produce even a modicum of success are as demanding as any other sport. |
Sports Central October 8, 2005 Brad Oremland |
An Age-Old Question Kids should not be playing sports. People under 18 shouldn't be playing football, baseball, or basketball, shouldn't be ice skating or golfing or learning to hit a ball with a racket. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2001 Frank Deford |
Showtime Women's tennis looks ready for prime time... |
Sports Illustrated August 24, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
Ten best tournament finishes The duel between Bob May and Tiger Woods. Woods thought it ranked as one of the great finishes in golf history. He's probably right. Here's my list of the 10 best major tournament finishes since 1960... |
Sports Illustrated November 22, 2000 Frank Deford |
Privileged existence Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods more equal than others. A comment on athletic meritocracy. |
Sports Central April 13, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Golf: Soap Opera or Sport? If you are a serious golfer or a fan of the game, you almost certainly believe -- with great conviction -- that golf is a sport. |
Sports Illustrated October 25, 2000 Frank Deford |
National Passed Time Baseball is still our game -- if we can stay awake. The bizarre thing about baseball is nobody disputes that the games are too long, and because of this the game is being terribly harmed... |
Sports Central March 24, 2010 Ryan Ballengee |
Tiger, IMG, and PGA Tour: The Battle For Pro Golf in the U.S. The future business model of golf depends on the ability for tours to deliver events with star-studded fields. |
Sports Illustrated March 14, 2001 Jaime Diaz |
The game should embrace ShotLink You're probably a little confused about the ongoing uproar on the PGA Tour over something called ShotLink.... |
Sports Illustrated July 18, 2001 |
Divided we stand There's a league for everyone these days. Declining TV ratings for individual sports are caused by an increase in choices. |
Sports Illustrated January 11, 2001 Gary Van Sickle |
Shaping up I hope you watched the Accenture Match Play Championship from Australia. Steve Stricker's win should remind you what golf is all about -- scoring... |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2003 Frank Deford |
King Hut Pro football rules in America; here's why |
Sports Illustrated August 2, 2000 Frank Deford |
All sports trends shall come to pass There is a lamentable tendency for the smarty-pants experts to get carried away by some attractive new sports champion and presume that that achievement must somehow portend great and broad significance. In fact, in the culture of sports, there is rarely much change at the top. |
AskMen.com August 21, 2002 Mark Simmons |
Golf's Generous Pension Plan In 1983, the PGA decided to get serious about protecting its athletes once their careers came to an end. |
Sports Illustrated April 10, 2000 Jack McCallum |
Why is Tiger held to higher standard? Can you imagine the gasps of horror had a 20-year-old Tiger Woods suddenly dashed into the trees to relieve himself during the Masters, the way 20-year-old Sergio Garcia did at the 11th hole last week at Augusta?... |
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Mark Hyman |
Young Athletes, Big-League Pain Year-round play and dreams of going pro are side-lining kids with serious sports related injuries. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Female Athlete Salaries Women typically have equal opportunities to play sports as men, but, too often, the compensation is anything but equal. |
Sports Illustrated February 20, 2001 Gary Van Sickle |
More equipment highlights Here's the second half of what I saw that was new and cool at the PGA Merchandise Show. And, if there's any justice in the world, all of it should make its way into my bag... |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2001 Frank Deford |
Athletics 101 A change in eligibility rules is long overdue if we want to encourage talented athletes to stay in school... |
Sports Central July 16, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
Why Golf Needs an All-Star Game Golf needs an experience for fans that largely serves as a commercial for the sport and provides fans with a new level of intimacy with the game. |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2010 Nick Kapur |
Should College Athletes Be Paid to Play? Take that idea back to crazytown. |
Sports Central February 21, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
Golf's Identity Crisis The game of golf is exhibiting signs that it is clearly struggling with the same problems of someone in a midlife crisis. |
Sports Central December 30, 2015 Marc James |
Why the LPGA Deserves Better Professional golf is one of America's most popular sports, and while men and women do both, women's professional golf must still fight for legitimacy, attention, and dollars most of the time. |
Sports Illustrated January 17, 2001 Frank Deford |
Our college samurai A privileged athletic class is caustic to college life... |
Sports Central June 3, 2005 Eric Poole |
Baseball of a Different Color While "September Swoon" sometimes gets bogged down in game accounts, it's worthwhile reading for its coverage of race and baseball, particularly in reference to the Philadelphia Phillies' Dick Allen, regarded as baseball's first black superstar malcontent. |
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Marilyn Harris |
Paddle, Anyone? Played on smaller courts, platform tennis keeps the hardy active in winter. |
Salon.com August 1, 2001 Allen Barra |
Play ball? You bet The Wall Street Journal says kids aren't interested in the national pastime anymore. The folks who sell baseball gear beg to differ... |
ifeminists September 2, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Calling the Bluff on Women's Athletics Let's stop this paternalistic "separate-and-unequal" treatment of female athletes. Let's allow the women to play against the men. |
Sports Central October 26, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
Is the Tennis Season Too Long? The tennis season is way too long. Just like basketball, hockey, and baseball (the World Series hasn't even started yet and it's the end of October) tennis has become just another drawn out non-spectacle. |
Sports Central May 31, 2008 Ben Feller |
Why Baseball Needs Replay Now The main reason for replay is to get the calls correct. Another is for baseball to start to shy away from its old school image. |
Sports Central August 19, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
2005 U.S. Open: Admission is Free! Just about every professional sport has a minor league of some kind, and each costs you admission. Well, not tennis -- at least not before the major tournaments. For the cost of transportation to Flushing Meadows, you can see some of the best tennis you will ever see for free. |
Sports Central January 23, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
Race and Golf: Let the Discussion Begin Evidence seems to indicate that African-American people are only a small part of the game of golf, and that even Tiger Woods does not even appear to be helping the issue. |
Sports Illustrated September 21, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
No golf at the Olympics As we're all in the grips of Olympic fever -- yeah, right -- now may be the time to point out that golf doesn't need to be included as an event in the near future... Plus letters from readers, mostly about Tiger Woods... |
Sports Central June 1, 2005 Kevin Ferra |
A Look at Sports Globalization A look at American sports and a preview of upcoming articles about popular sports in other countries. |
Sports Illustrated November 19, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
An easy offseason Baseball pitching vs. tennis serving, continued... |
Sports Illustrated November 12, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Still railing on rankings Is it possible that tennis could adopt something similar to golf's World Ranking? Golf's system is based on results over the last two years and uses average points per event, not total points... |
Sports Central August 31, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
Golf and Doping: A Real Possibility The PGA Tour must pilot a drug testing program in 2007 and create a full program for the 2008 season. |
Sports Illustrated March 15, 2001 Alan Shipnuck |
The write stuff Advice for aspiring sports writers. |
Sports Central March 24, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis Angels, Yes; Steroids, No You won't find widespread use of any performance enhancing drugs in tennis -- for a list of sound reasons. And a lot of them are the sport's women athletes, who play at the same competitive level as men. Especially the "Tennis Angels," who are four of the top 200 players in the world! |
Sports Central September 19, 2007 Will Tidey |
Juicing Another Game? A while back baseball higher-ups decided performance-enhancing drugs were irrelevant to the sport. How could one group be so wrong? |
Sports Central October 31, 2012 Stephen Kerr |
Defending America's Pastime Now that San Francisco has swept Detroit, and this year's World Series is over, I'll watch some good pro and college football and basketball. But I'm already counting down the days until spring training starts another season. Hurry back, baseball! |
Sports Illustrated August 28, 2002 Frank Deford |
Tennis takes a turn European players are soccer-izing the men's game. |
Sports Illustrated January 10, 2001 Frank Deford |
The hot stove league Once upon a time there was an offseason. Super Bowl? NFL Playoffs? The NBA? Hard to imagine today, but for much of the 20th century, perhaps as late as into the 1960s, the sports calendar effectively ended with the New Year's Day bowl games... |
AskMen.com Will Brody |
Top 10: Former Olympic Sports There have been many sports that have been dropped over the years. Let's take a look at some of the Olympic sports of yesteryear. |
Sports Central May 11, 2011 Tom Kosinski |
Where Did All the Americans Go? This week, the tennis headline on most major sports news outlets is that for the first time ever there are not American players in the top 10 of both the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour. |
Sports Central March 11, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
How to Improve the Golf Season Focusing more on choice players and shortening the golf season will attract more viewers, benefiting golfers, networks and charities. |
Sports Central October 31, 2004 Jon Gonzales |
Ten Radical Rule Changes For the NFL It's not like football needs rule changes like other sports need them. Still, a sport, in the fans' interests, should continuously evolve; therefore keeping it from flat-lining as tennis or even baseball has at times. |
Sports Illustrated December 31, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The current Williams legacy Here's a hypo for you: If Venus and Serena Williams were to quit tennis today, what would their legacy be? Would either make the Hall of Fame? Would they be seen as real pioneers or just as talented black players who had a lot of athleticism? |