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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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31-0.
That was Rafael Nadal’s French Open record prior to playing hard-hitting Swede Robin Soderling Sunday at Roland Garros, an undefeated streak dating back to Nadal’s Open debut in 2005. The undisputed master of the clay court had won four straight French Open men’s singles titles
31-0.

photo credit: chascow
Nadal [...]

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Now here’s something that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately as an expectant mother: should I enroll my child in a sport, and if so, how should I go about it?
I still remember my first trip to the YMCA when I was seven-years-old. My mother took my sister [...]

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With Gary’s analysis (Part 1 & Part 2) of who is the greatest all-time golfer, Tiger or Jack, on my mind and with both the men’s and women’s college basketball championships having just been decided, I figured I’d raise the question: which is the greatest NCAA women’s basketball team of [...]

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Sunday night Japan eliminated Team USA in the Semi-Finals of the second World Baseball Classic by a score of 9-4.
Finishing third was a huge step up for the United States, which finished a woeful eighth three years ago in the augural Classic, barely making it out of the first round.
Hard [...]

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March Madness is finally here!
What’s that, say you? It’s not March Madness yet! There are no brackets, no upsets, no buzzer-beaters.
Ah, but there are. Conference Tournament Week is here. And each year, the conference tournaments expand more and more both in excitement and importance, having reached that [...]

This is a cross-post of an article I wrote for FierceAndNerdy.com.
The Super Bowl is over, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, and we now know that A-Fraud tested positive for anabolic steroids twice in 2003…
And pitchers and catchers have reported for spring training.
I love baseball. It’s my favorite sport, the one I was raised [...]