Is being the better person enough to combat racism?
GERRY CHIDIAC: Basketball player Jeremy Lin believes you can be the bigger person and still tell someone that their words and actions are unacceptable (PREMIUM)
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Category: Sports
How do we fairly welcome trans athletes to playing fields?
KEN REED: The general approach should be to have experts in each sport come together and decide on the specific rules for allowing fair competition ($21)
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The cultural ripples of the fight of the century
PAT MURPHY: The first Ali-Frazier fight was boxing at its most thrilling. But it was also surrounded by name calling and racial strife, with political overtones ($29)
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Baseball showed how racism can be overcome
GERRY CHIDIAC: Racism is pointless and will inevitably fail, as it did in baseball. But it is part of our history ($29)
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Pull the 2022 Olympics out of China
ERIN O’TOOLE: Or are we prepared to hang a “For sale” sign on our values as a nation? (FREE)
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Major League Baseball has a sexual harassment problem
KEN REED: What constitutes manhood in sports culture is archaic. As if the sports world has been frozen in time – Neanderthal time ($21)
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Sports sponsorship builds our sense of community
TONY COMPER: Sports sponsorship represents an organization’s values, including the investment we make in our collective culture, education and heritage — not just wealth for its own sake
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Weighing the risks of youth sports in a pandemic
KEN REED: Perhaps the best solution is to allow sports for the participants but ban parents, other fans and non-essential adults from being involved
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Shortchanging the essentials while making the court jesters rich
GERRY BOWLER: When did you last hear anyone complain “Where is a Women’s Studies professor when you need her?”
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Head injuries and football go hand in hand
KEN REED: Modern helmets prevent skull fractures but don’t address the problem of a brain crashing against the side of the skull
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The smartest things ever said about sports
KEN REED: Despite what Vince Lombardi said, if winning’s the only thing in sports, you’re going to be miserable a lot of the time
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The 1960 Olympics were spectacular in more ways than one
PAT MURPHY: Wilma Rudolph, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Peter Snell and Herb Elliott were the brightest stars in Rome
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