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Each of the four major team sports have a set of traditions and rituals known by the game’s participants as “The Code.” The Code is made up of “eye for an eye” retributions for perceived wrongs.

Adhering to the Code can result in serious injury. For example, in the National Hockey League (NHL), Colorado […]

The August 15-22 issue of The Nation magazine is filled with informative and provocative writing on some our most important contemporary sports issues. Issues like public-financing of stadiums, lockouts in the NFL and NBA, sexism and racism in sports, are analyzed brilliantly by the likes of Dave Zirin, Robert Lipsyte, Neil DeMause, David Meggyesy, […]

Lou Gehrig was and remains my sports hero. By the time he retired in 1939, the Columbia University graduate displayed exceptional stamina (he played in 2,130 consecutive games, whether fit or injured, between 1925 and 1939). He epitomized the dignified athlete and didn’t mind playing second fiddle to Babe Ruth while setting baseball records for […]

Here we are in 2011 and there are still people fighting Title IX, the landmark federal law that has successfully given millions of girls and young women opportunities in athletics that simply didn’t exist before the law was passed.

An advocacy group for men’s and boy’s sports, known as the American Sports Council, is suing […]

A day after the NFL was sued by 75 former players who claim the league concealed information about the danger of concussions for decades, the Ivy League took strong steps to reduce the number of concussions and subconcussive hits in football.

The NFL players’ negligence, fraud and liability suit was filed on July […]

Are current NFL players and owners too greedy to treat retired players fairly and justly?

It appears that we’re close to a new collective bargaining agreement between NFL owners and players.  Both sides will come out fine as they put the finishing touches on a deal to split up $9 billion in revenue.  But […]

When Derek Jeter went 5-for-5, including a dramatic home run for his 3000th hit, we were all Derek Jeter fans (yes, even the Yankee haters). It was one of those amazing sports feats that keep us all fans of the unscripted beauty that sport can be on the field, court and ice.

After his […]

“Edge of Sports Radio with Dave Zirin, where sports and politics collide.”

07/01/11 – This week we chat with Ken Reed of the League of Fans about what his group is doing to make sports better for the fans that consume them…
Click here to listen to the interview.

As a tennis buff, I occasionally enjoy watching tennis on television. Usually the venues are plastered with billboard ads and corporate sponsorship signage. Virtually everything you can see is covered with a logo or corporate brand of some type. All this commercialism certainly takes away from the event itself.

However, Wimbledon, is the great exception. […]