Monthly Archives: August 2013 »
What’s Unsettled About The NFL Concussions Settlement
By Arthur Caplan & Lee Igel Forbes.com | August 30, 2013 “Many reactions to the announcement of a settlement between the NFL and 4500 former players who filed a concussion-related lawsuit are clear: the
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Michelle Obama Urges Kids to Stay Active at U.S. Open
By Susan E. Matthews Everydayhealth.com | August 24, 2013 “The stadiums that will soon host the likes of Serena Williams and Roger Federer in the U.S. Open opened their courts to a smaller set
Read More »Was ESPN sloppy, naive or compromised?
By Robert Lipsyte ESPN.com | August 25, 2013 “So what’s more damaging to a corporate image: to be considered sloppy, naïve or compromised? Or all three? You get to pick in the wake of
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College Football’s Most Dominant Player? It’s ESPN
By JAMES ANDREW MILLER, STEVE EDER and RICHARD SANDOMIR New York Times | August 24, 2013 “The nation’s annual rite of mayhem and pageantry known as the college football season begins this week, and
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Li Na, China’s Tennis Rebel
By BROOK LARMER New York Times | August 22, 2013 “The patch of Wimbledon grass known as the Graveyard of Champions was supposedly exorcised four years ago, when the blue-blazered gentlemen of the All
Read More »The Global Dominance of ESPN
DEREK THOMPSON Theatlantic.com | AUG 14 2013 “We’re not looking for niche audiences,” Skipper told me. Instead, ESPN’s flagship channel seeks to maximize the odds that whenever a middle-American male tunes in, he’ll see
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The NFL is Talking About Safety, but Is It Enough?
Have you seen the ads the NFL is running during exhibition games trying to calm the nerves of worried parents about their kids playing football? Expressing concern is great but a new article out
Read More »College Football Encounters Its Biggest Rival: The Couch
By Brad Tuttle Time.com | August 16, 2013 “The new reality is that some of the biggest, most popular college football programs in the country can’t jack up ticket prices annually, put a decent
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If Pete Rose ‘Stained’ Baseball, Alex Rodriguez Desecrated It
By Lee Igel & Arthur Caplan Forbes.com | August 5, 2013 “Twenty four years ago this month, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti stood at a lectern and announced that baseball was banning Pete
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Are We Killing Our Sports Gene?
By David Epstein TheDailyBeast.com | August 4, 2013 Are we losing a generation of athletes by overprescribing ADHD drugs? In an excerpt from his new book The Sports Gene, David Epstein writes on new
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