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The NFL Should Be More Like NASCAR
Written by: Sameer Pandya, Friday 28 November 2008 - 00:00 AM 
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In a manifesto for sports fans, two professors call for more merit and less monopoly.
Baseball Whiffs When Setting Salaries
Written by: Tom Jacobs, Thursday 16 October 2008 - 11:40 AM 0 Comments
As one team after another gets eliminated in the baseball playoffs, no doubt many fans are grousing that certain strikeout- or error-prone players are getting paid too much. New research suggests one likely reason for this disconnect between an athlete’s paycheck and performance.
Watch Sports, Improve Your Brain
Written by: Tom Jacobs, Wednesday 03 September 2008 - 11:02 AM 0 Comments
Attention sports fans: It turns out the countless hours you have spent sitting on your couch watching games have not been a total waste after all. In a sense, you have been giving your brain a workout.
Sports Lovers in the White House
Written by: Sara Barbour, Monday 11 August 2008 - 15:33 PM 0 Comments
Television coverage of this weekend's first Olympic match-ups seemed at times a presidential Where's Waldo, with President Bush cheering at the Water Cube for Michael Phelps' first victories, flashing a thumbs-up from the stands at the U.S.-China men's basketball game, or hitting the sand with the women's beach volleyball team.
Men Dominate Olympics TV Coverage
Written by: Tom Jacobs, Thursday 31 July 2008 - 14:33 PM 0 Comments
A new analysis of NBC’s prime-time Olympics coverage shows male athletes receive more air time than women, but the discrepancy is much greater for the winter games than the summer ones.
Team Colors Don’t Run in Reporting Squad
Written by: Lewis Beale, Tuesday 22 July 2008 - 08:30 AM 0 Comments
The racial chasm between professional athletes and the people who write about them feels like a historical anomaly. Yet it isn’t.
Gridiron Violence Off the Field
Written by: Tom Jacobs, Saturday 02 February 2008 - 01:10 AM 0 Comments
High school football players and wrestlers are far more likely to get into violent altercations than their non-athletic classmates, according to a new finding.
Academic Coverage of Sports and Steroids
Written by: Matt Palmquist, Saturday 02 February 2008 - 00:50 AM 0 Comments
More than 20 years of published articles on performance-enhancing drugs have ranged from identifying the damage the drugs have on the individual to the damage they have on society as a whole.
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