One last look at Super Bowl XLIV in Deep Into Sports’ newest column.
Who Dat?
As the football season came to a close with the glitz and glamour of a broadway production showcasing the NFL’s best, the Big Easy, known for it’s party atmosphere and Texas Hold’em coaching styles, led a team back by promising and rebuilding [...]

The NFL’s Pro Bowl has finally been changed for the better.
Are You Listening, Roger Goodell?
Reflecting on the changes to today’s Pro Bowl–taking place the weekend between the Conference Championship and the Super Bowl in the Super Bowl city, Miami, and not in Hawaii–I recalled my VideoDeep post regarding such from last year.
Were you listening, Roger [...]

Considering that we recently had a discussion on Deep Into Sports about how ridiculous it is to refer to athletes and/or coaches as geniuses or heroes, this story about a Mississippi high school football player, Kaleb Eulls, who really is a hero caught my eye:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/03/mississippi.bus.hero/index.html
In case you’re not familiar, Eulls saved twenty-two children (age 5 [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a cross post with Fierce And Nerdy.
If I were Detroit I’d really hate Pittsburgh right now. Think about it.  Last month, during the G-20 conference hundreds of articles were published revealing how Pittsburgh avoided the scythe of the Recession Reaper by focusing on green innovation, education and health care. In many [...]

This is a cross post with Fierce And Nerdy.
Dear Mr. Diack –
As President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), I appreciate your acknowledgement that the situation with South African runner Caster Semenya “could have been treated with more sensitivity. I admit that we are unhappy; we could have done better. But [...]

This is a cross post with Fierce And Nerdy.
So apparently, the officials at Wimbledon have admitted to taking looks into consideration when making court assignments at Wimbledon. This “sex sells” practice isn’t so surprising, as much that a group would actually admit to doing this in the 21st century.
And while I agree with many of [...]

Regardless of what happens in Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, whether it be a great game or a debacle, the naming of knuckleballer Tim Wakefield to his first All-Star team is a great story and an honor well-deserved by a classy player.
At forty-two, Wakefield is the second oldest first-time All-Star, behind only the legendary [...]

This is a cross post with FierceAndNerdy.com.
A couple weeks ago the New York Times ran an article about the disparity between boys and girls’ sports.
Schools have made great strides towards scholastic athletic equality since the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Although Title IX made no specific reference to athletics [...]

Several months ago I commented upon a Yahoo! Sports article on Hasheem Thabeet and his importance to his native Tanzania, an article which really hit home for me having lived in that country two years myself.
It may not have quite the personal connotations for me, but Yahoo! has done it again with Todd Pitman’s piece [...]

I still recall when Jim Abbott threw his no-hitter. Not that it should have been any more impressive than the mere face that Abbott, with only one hand, was pitching in the major leagues at all, but somehow it was. The no-no was the crowning achievement of an already remarkable triumph over adversity.
I [...]