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40 Years After Title IX, the Playing Field Still Isn't Level

The Women's Professional Soccer league "permanently suspended" operations, showing just how much further women's sports have to go.

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Sold Out: Are Pro Sports Owners Obligated to Keep the Team in Town?

Oakland residents supported a losing team to support their city. The owners didn't seem to care.

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Why Does Major League Baseball Keep Killing Fans' Memes?

Liberally doling out cease-and-desist letters is most certainly not a good business or public relations decision.

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The Path Toward Ethical Fandom After Junior Seau

I don't watch football because of the violence, but I don't exactly watch despite that, either. And that's becoming a harder choice to justify.

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Offloading My Brain: A Love Letter to Evernote

I've always been fairly organized, but my organization system? A disaster. Then I discovered Evernote.

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How 'Take Back the Night' Keeps Some Victims Silent

After I attended my own college's Take Back the Night, I didn't feel empowered. I felt shaken and shamed.

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How Title IX Eliminated Coaching Jobs for Women—And How to Solve the Problem

Once men started wanting jobs coaching women, men started getting a disproportionate number of those jobs.

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Players Flout the NBA's Hoodie Ban to Stand Up for Travyon Martin

The Miami Heat understand all too well that Trayvon had no obligation to wear khakis to indicate he wasn't a threat.

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How Taking Photos Made Me Love My Hometown

Photography has become my primary vehicle for learning about Los Angeles. Taking photos taught me to love it here.

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4 Lessons Every Other Event Ever Should Learn From March Madness

The World Cup may be more popular and the World Series may be a longer-standing tradition, but no game or series can compete on sheer excitement.

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Football's Failed Conscience: The NFL's Pay-Per-Injury 'Incentive' System

Though NFL executives may not have known about the details of the bounty program, they are the ones to blame for letting it go on for so long.

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Even Little Cities Deserve Kings: Sacramento's Basketball Victory Is a Win For Small Sports Markets

Smaller cities are forever being pushed out of the big league sports conversation. Sacramento is keeping them in the game.

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The Power of the Underdog: Without One, the Super Bowl Is Less Fun

We still want to believe in meritocracy, whether in sports or in finance.

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In the NCAA, a Free Plane Ticket Is a Crime, But Sexual Assault Isn't

Patrick Witt lost his shot at a Rhodes but not a chance to play in the biggest game of his career despite a serious accusation against him.

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Financial Fitness Task 26: Set up a Work-Sponsored Retirement Plan #30DaysofGOOD

Do you want to work full-time until you die? Didn't think so.

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Dealbreaker: He Doesn't Give Compliments

He was a numbers guy, and he approached relationships with the same dispassionate logic he would any other equation.

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Joe Paterno, Ike Turner, and the Trouble With Legacies

The confused reaction to Paterno's death echoes the public response to Turner's in 2007.

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