The president has mastered the politics of “kayfabe,” where every conflict is a highly profitable spectacle.

The Pro Bowl athlete is standing up for Palestinians in Gaza, and exposing the NFL as a sleazy, amoral organization that wants its players under tight control.

For the Super Bowl, New Orleans forced unhoused people into a grim warehouse—and paid a private contractor $17.5 million for it—while billionaires’ superyachts floated on the Mississippi. How much longer will we tolerate this obscene inequality?

An unhealthy fixation with financial speculation pervades American culture generally and sports particularly.

The latest “common sense” right-wing talking point is yet more transphobic prejudice.

Skiing might seem like a rich person’s hobby, but it hasn’t always been like that—and it doesn’t have to stay that way.

The unpaid workers of college sports may soon get the right to earn money, but the NCAA will keep fighting to preserve a fundamentally unjust system.

Catering to the whims of stars above all else doesn’t work—either in sports or society at large.