Department Index
Sports Nut 2011:
The stadium scene.
If you'd like to sort this department listing by headline, author or date, please use the Slate search.
- More Moneyball, Same Problems The numbers are good, but the story is still bunk.
Sept. 21, 2011 - Tennis: An Aural History Victoria Heinicke, the sport's first grunter. Plus: Notes on the evolution of grunting.
Sept. 14, 2011 - Qatar's Football Dreams Is the country's standout soccer academy a humanitarian project or a scheme to buy Africa's best players?
Sept. 14, 2011 - NFL 2011 I want revenge on DirecTV.
Sept. 7, 2011 - Lionel Messi Goes to 11 Soccer's player ratings are confusing, erratic, and useless. More sports should have them.
Sept. 7, 2011 - The NFL's $100 Million Myth Why does the press overstate the value of pro football contracts?
Sept. 1, 2011 - Unbreakable The women's track and field record book needs to be expunged.
Aug. 25, 2011 - Being Tony Plush Finding redemption through Nyjer Morgan's gentleman alter ego.
Aug. 12, 2011 - Plenty of Good Seats Still Available The collapse of the sports ticket bubble.
Aug. 4, 2011 - Pitching From Behind The sad road of Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu.
Aug. 1, 2011 - Concussions and Cigarettes A new lawsuit claims the NFL is like Big Tobacco. Does the case have merit?
July 26, 2011 - Major League Soccer's Best Hope? Investigating whether Hope Solo could make it in a men's professional league.
July 20, 2011 - The Greatest Baseball Infographics Ever Made Four excerpts from Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Fly Ball.
July 18, 2011 - Heartbreak Team USA loses to Japan in a bizarre Women's World Cup final. Plus: What's the future of U.S. women's soccer?
July 18, 2011 - Is Rory McIlroy the Next Tiger Woods? What the advanced golf stats say about the game's young star.
July 13, 2011 - The Other Red, White, and Blue Why Americans should root for the French team in the Women's World Cup.
July 12, 2011 - American Exceptionalism Why France should root for the USA in the Women's World Cup.
July 12, 2011 - Justice! The USA women's triumph over Brazil was one of the most thrilling, and deserved, victories in recent sports history.
July 10, 2011 - Death of a Fan The national pastime's shocking death toll.
July 8, 2011 - Dog Bites Man The past and future of competitive eating injuries, from death by cheese to the dreaded ruptured stomach.
June 30, 2011 - Who Grunted? Match the shriek to the tennis player—an interactive quiz.
June 28, 2011 - Mexican Wave How the U.S. national team got swarmed over by its continental rival.
June 26, 2011 - The Winningest Loser Swedish soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimović confounds the sports world's most-cherished clichés.
June 21, 2011 - The Toughest Test in Golf Looking at the new golf stats to see who will win the U.S. Open.
June 16, 2011 - Young Dirk I played against the NBA Finals MVP when he was 17. He was a lot better than me.
June 13, 2011 - Airless LeBron James' Michael Jordan problem.
June 10, 2011 - Heat Sensitive Why I'm rooting for LeBron James—and you should, too.
June 3, 2011 - Inside the Church of Sports A new history of ESPN shows how one religion got its start.
June 1, 2011 - Sic Transit Gloria Messi Is the Champions League final going to be the last hurrah for Barcelona, soccer's greatest team?
May 25, 2011 - The Weirdest Two Minutes in Sports How we misunderstand the Kentucky Derby.
May 6, 2011 - Aw, Nuts No, you can't give your racehorse an obscene name.
May 6, 2011 - Two Minutes on Top Why you should root for Comma to the Top to win Saturday's Kentucky Derby.
May 5, 2011 - Not So Clásico The fascinating, infuriating series between Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona.
May 3, 2011 - Will Cam Newton Be a Bust? The speech analysts at Achievement Metrics reveal whether the No. 1 pick is in the "quadrant of doom."
April 30, 2011 - Busted The DOJ's online-poker shutdown leaves a pro player to wonder how he'll make a living.
April 29, 2011 - Turning Words Into Touchdowns Does a player's speech predict how he'll perform in the NFL?
April 27, 2011 - Hit The Road, Frank Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt provided a public glimpse into the hypocrisy of recession-era America.
April 26, 2011 - The Island of Arsenal Will an American billionaire change the culture of England's most glamorous soccer club?
April 14, 2011 - The Craziest Men in Sports In hurling, the ball moves 100 miles per hour. So why don't goalkeepers want to wear facemasks?
April 13, 2011 - When the Babe Was A-Rod The quick-hitting, hyperjudgmental sports media isn't just a 21st-century phenomenon.
April 7, 2011 - The Return of the King The stats show that Tiger Woods is getting his game back.
April 6, 2011 - How To Watch the Masters An expert's guide to watching golf on television.
April 6, 2011 - Shakespeare and Verlander Why are we so good at developing athletes and so lousy at developing writers?
March 30, 2011 - My Brother's a Keeper What it's like being related to the hottest name in March Madness.
March 25, 2011 - He Shoots, He Shoots, He Shoots, He Scores Jimmer Fredette, and the virtues of college basketball's biggest ball hogs.
March 24, 2011 - The Scottish Play Celtic vs. Rangers, and what happens when a sports rivalry gets completely out of hand.
March 23, 2011 - "There's No Way This Is Happening" A moment-by-moment account of Butler's win over Pittsburgh, one of the craziest games in NCAA Tournament history.
March 20, 2011 - Dispatch From the NCAA Tournament Behind the Butler bench as the Bulldogs keep up their March magic.
March 17, 2011 - Teams We Hate Duke, Akron, and five more odious schools in the 2011 NCAA Tournament.
March 16, 2011 - Are You Sports Management or Communications? An interactive guide to the preferred majors of college basketball stars.
March 15, 2011 - How To Win Your NCAA Pool Act like a hedge-fund manager and pick Texas to win it all.
March 14, 2011 - Let's Go Blue Team! Forget team names. Make your March Madness picks with Slate's mascot and school color brackets.
March 14, 2011 - Ratings Madness Why the RPI is a lousy way to pick teams for the NCAA Tournament.
March 11, 2011 - The Great Carmelo Debate Why can't basketball stats nerds separate the superstars from the ball hogs?
March 7, 2011 - Parity vs. Greatness The most important debate in sports.
March 3, 2011 - If You Don't Build It … A slide-show essay on Seattle's floating dome, Edmonton's Omniplex, and other great unbuilt stadiums.
March 1, 2011 - The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue An intellectual history.
Feb. 14, 2011 - The Superstar at Play Ronaldo wasn't the greatest of all time, but he made soccer look like unbelievable fun.
Feb. 14, 2011 - Gameday Theory Fans who lost their seats at this year's Super Bowl have three compensation opportunities. Which one should they accept?
Feb. 11, 2011 - The Super Bowl Where Everybody Wins It doesn't matter if the Packers or Steelers come out on top—the stock market's going up either way.
Feb. 3, 2011 - The NFL's Next Big Headache Could the league withstand a class action lawsuit from players with brain injuries?
Feb. 2, 2011 - Numberless Wonders The trouble with soccer's statistical revolution.
Jan. 27, 2011 - NFL Playoffs, the Super Bowl Will there be a lockout?
Jan. 10, 2011 - So Crazy, It Just Might Work A pro football conundrum: Does it make sense to start overtime with a surprise onside kick?
Jan. 7, 2011 - Before They Were Stars In fantasy football, it takes losers to win.
Jan. 4, 2011
View My Network on Slate
»
TODAY'S PICTURES
TODAY'S CARTOONS
TODAY'S DOONESBURY
TODAY'S VIDEO
Brigitte Bardot.
Cartoonists' take on the Post Office.
Mass extinctions.
GET TODAY IN SLATE
Sign up for Slate's daily newsletter.
-
An essayist and his fact-checker do battle over the line between true and false: http://t.co/wmRCCXQ3 #longreads #mustreads
-
Harvard and Princeton clearly discriminate against Asian applicants. But is what they're doing illegal? http://t.co/SUokvPE7
-
Yet again, the Pentagon budget calls for way more pricey, big-war weapons than we need: http://t.co/HDiLZmct
