Michael Phelps's Back Spots Deserve a Gold Medal in Pseudoscience
Has the entire U.S. Olympic team fallen for the superstition of cupping?
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Enjoy Rio's Olympic Venues Now. In a Few Years, They Will Be in Ruins.
Few boondoggles are bigger, more costly, and less permanent than Olympic infrastructure.
Friday A/V Club: The Fascist, the Humanist, and the Olympics
How Kon Ichikawa outdid Leni Riefenstahl
UPDATED!: An Incomplete List of Why Nobody Really Gives a Shit About the Olympics Anymore
Add your own in the comments. After all, it's not like you're going to be watching the Rio Games...
Matt Welch Talks Trump, Clinton, Iran, and Obama-Commutations on Tonight's Kennedy
Fox Business Network broadcast at 8 p.m. ET also includes discussion of Clint Eastwood and the benefits of drinking while married
Chicago Would Be Even More of a Disaster if It Had Been Awarded the 2016 Olympics
The city is still paying the tab for the bid-but it could have been much worse.
How Brazil's Libertarian Movement Helped Bring Down a President
Can these millennial activists defeat the left and save Brazil?
Quebec Publicly Financed an Arena to Get an NHL Team. You Won't Believe What Happened Next.
Actually, you can probably guess what happened.
Fantasy Sports May Return to New York After State Secures Its Cut
It's not just about 'protecting consumers.'
Trump Presidency Could Cost United States the World Cup, U.S. Soccer Prez Says
Hysterics hitting eleven.
Cobb County Has No Money Left for Public Parks Because They Gave it All to the Atlanta Braves
Voters supported funding parks, but not a billionaire's ballpark.
How Muhammad Ali Changed America—And His Role in Malcolm X's Murder
Sportswriter Robert Lipsyte on the Greatest's massive, contradictory legacy in politics and culture.
The Yard Goats are a Farm Team Without a Farm
The centerpiece of Hartford's $400 million development misses another deadline.
Taxpayers Spent $34 Million on a Minor League Hockey Arena. Two Years Later, The Team is Leaving
A regular reminder to never publicly finance pro sports teams' real estate.
Atlanta Braves Are a Terrible Baseball Team, But "A Fairly Major Real Estate Business"
Small-town Southern taxpayers subsidize minor league ballparks for baseball's worst team.
It Takes Exactly Four Tweets From Non-Eyewitnesses to Tar a City as Racist
New York Daily News irresponsibly reports that Cub Jason Heyward was 'blitzed with N-word taunts from Cardinals fans'
Univ. of Georgia Stymies Open-Records Law in Pursuit of NCAA Titles
School also forces students to pay millions in athletic fees to cover programs.
Another Troubled City, Another Subsidized Stadium To the Rescue
Perpetually broke Hartford bets big-and stupid-on minor-league ballpark.
Knocking Smokeless Tobacco Out of the Ballpark
Liberty suffers another blow in Chicago 'for the children.'
New York Is the Last State to End Ban on MMA Fighting Events
You are now free to beat each other up (consensually) around the country.
The Nanny Always Wins: Daily Fantasy Sports Stop Operations in New York
DraftKings, FanDuel hoping for legislation to give them permission to exist.
You Put Your Politics Into My Sports!
Listen to Anthony Fisher and Matt Welch talk about the bloody intersection between policy and sports on Sirius XM channel 121 at noon ET
NCAA Exploits its Players, But Who Doesn't Love Some March Madness Bracketology?
College basketball's tournament is compelling, but ethically compromised.
March Madness Is Here! Let's All Pretend We Don't Gamble.
Forty million Americans will bet on the college basketball tourney even though it's not really legal.
Virginia General Assembly Approves Guidelines for Fantasy Sports
Virginia is the first state to put fantasy sports legislation before a governor.
Mark Cuban Tells Politicians "Good Luck" Getting Rid of Fantasy Sports
Says death of fantasy sports industry greatly exaggerated.
New York Yankees Don't Understand The Free Market
Baseball's ultimate capitalists don't like fans buying tickets for the prices they're actually worth on Stubhub.
Is Playing Daily Fantasy Sports Any Different From Playing Powerball?
The debate surrounding daily fantasy sports isn't about skill or chance, but evidence that our psuedo-ban on sports gambling is hypocritical and ineffective.
There's Just One Known Recording of the First Super Bowl Broadcast, and the NFL Wants to Keep a Man From Selling It
A tale of football, lawyers, and videotape
There's No Tidal Wave of Sex Slaves Descending on the Super Bowl
Activists and politicians warn of a roving horde of "trafficked" prostitutes that researchers just can't find.
The Pro Bowl Scam
How the NFL uses a taxpayer-funded tourist agency to subsidize its all-star game.
Shaq Jokes About All the Money He Got as a College Player at LSU
But the NCAA-and student-athletes getting cut out of record profits-aren't laughing.
Cam Newton Unwittingly Coined a Phrase That's Apt for Politics, Life and Sports
When you've built a lead too big to fail, sometimes you play "butt-tight."
Yes, College Athletes Should Be Paid, But Not by Students & Taxpayers
If you get angry over subsidies for pro sports teams, don't look at your alma mater's financials.
Brooklyn's Barclays Center is an Eminent Domain-Created Failure
Politicians and developers stole a neighborhood to build it, but it loses money and revitalized nothing.
NFL Should Permit Players to Use Medical Marijuana, Ex-Players Say
Pro football lives on massive consumption of painkillers, but still bans therapeutic use of pot.
Is Kobe Bryant's Retirement Tour Sad or Redemptive?
Fans hate seeing superstars turn mortal, but they love fond farewells.
If Peyton Manning Used HGH to Recover From a Broken Neck, Should We Really Care?
It's time to rethink the stigma surrounding this "performance-enhancing drug."
