Sports and Politics

Floyd Mayweather And King Solomon's Advice For Cleaning Up Washington

Rabbi Joshua Hess | Posted 11.22.2011

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Rabbi Joshua Hess

Despite the fact that our nation is in crisis, our political leadership refuses to let its guard down long enough to abandon political posturing and to find a compromise that will improve our economic problems.

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Leave 'Em in the Locker Room: Pro Athletes Make Lousy Public Officials

Robert Lipsyte | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Lipsyte

The sports-industrial complex tends to produce narrow-minded, self-centered, ethically-challenged mercenaries who are deeply submissive to established authority and fiercely dedicated to winning by any means possible.

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The Singing of National Anthems in International Soccer

Andrei Markovits | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrei Markovits

The iconography of a national team's players singing the anthem has lent the World Cup a nationalistic air and martial demeanor that did not exist in soccer until sometime in the 1990s

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Obama's Historic Campaign Has Energized Apathetic Lockerrooms -- What Took Them So Long?

Bruce Selcraig | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bruce Selcraig

Obama's candidacy has clearly motivated many professional athletes to reject the popular notion that political activity somehow taints them in the marketplace.

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