Sports

Five Untrue Things You'll Hear About the Angels This Week
A Divisional Series Primer
The Hardball Times - October 4, 2005

Locker-Room Liberty
Athletes Who Helped Shape Our Times and the Economic Freedom That Enabled Them
Reason - May 2005

Subsidies and Lies
How Baseball Came Back to D.C.
Reason - May 2005

The Shame of the Steroid Hunt
The Conscious Policy of Publicly Shaming High-profile Athletes
AlterNet - March 21, 2005

'Roid Rage
Here's Something to Get Really Steamed About: Congress' Grandstanding About Drug Use in Sports
Orange County Register - March 20, 2005

Jock Sniffing
Congress Has No Business Examining Baseball's Urine
Reason Online - March 14, 2005

George Bush vs. Barry Bonds
The Government's Effective Smear Campaign Against Baseball's Best Player
Reason Online - December 8, 2004

Culture Clash
What Happens When a Harvard Man With a Computer Is Given the Keys to Chavez Ravine?
Orange County Register - April 4, 2004

If You Build it, They Will Leave
Sports Teams Fleece the Taxpayer, Again
Reason - January 2004

Balls
The Joy of Watching Ideas Win
Reason - December 2003

Baseball Welfare
Will the Marlins Soak Miami Taxpayers Yet Again?
Reason Online - October 22, 2003

Dusty Inroads
Baker's 'Heat' Statement, True or False, May Signal New Era
Reason Online - July 10, 2003

Turning Baseball on its Ear
How an Amateur Army Outsmarted a Sport's Gatekeepers
National Post - June 21, 2003

Foul Ball
How Castro and the Embargo Have Silenced a Cuban Baseball Historian
Reason - June, 2002

The Cuban Senators
Julio Becquer and the Last-Place Cuban-Flavored Teams of 1950s D.C.
ESPN.com - March 11, 2002

Stomping Dubya Like Shaq Stomped Spurs
Bush Picked the Wrong State to Mess With
NewsForChange - May 29, 2001

No Mo, Thank Heavens
Why the Angels Will Be Better Without Mo Vaughn -- and Why Statistics Underestimate the Defensive Value of First Basemen
Sportsjones - April 12, 2001

Hunter Thompson, Online Columnist
How the Man Who Launched a Thousand Newspaper Careers
Ended up at ESPN.com
Online Journalism Review - December 21, 2000

Baseball's Cruel Political Satire
Bush/Gore World Series Debate: E-mail Hoax, or the Hilarious Truth?
Online Journalism Review - November 20, 2000

A Season to Remember
New Book by Texas Prof Does Admirable Job of Chronicling the '97-98 Cuban Baseball Crisis
Sportsjones - November 17, 2000

Baseball's 'Good Old Days' May Be Now
Terrific Shortstops, Colorful Players and Old-Fashioned Humility
Abound in Modern Game
NewsForChange - July 13, 2000

These Aren't Hoodlums, These Are Cops
Mayor Spends More Energy Slamming Laker Fans than Rampart Hooligans
NewsForChange - June 21, 2000

Even Losers Know not to Drive a '95 Honda
Consumer-Mad White Trash Savage Knick Coach for 5-year-old Car
NewsForChange - May 20, 2000

Race, and the Trouble with Math
If Your Politics Are Good, Science Doesn't Matter -- and Vice-Versa
NewsForChange - May 18, 2000

The Perils of Nostalgia
New Book on Cuban Baseball Doesn't Let Facts
Stand in the Way of a Good Ideological Rant
Sportsjones - April 11, 2000

Sports for Smart People
Gang of Academics and Rank Amateurs Launch Intelligent Sports Site
Online Journalism Review - September 28, 1998

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