D. Aaron Lacy (SMU): Represent: Hip Hop Culture, the NBA Dress Code and Employment Discrimination (and more). Curtis Fogel (Guelph): A Hockey Night in Canada: An Imagined Conversation between Theorists. Does Sports Illustrated's Lance Armstrong expose prove doping? Ryan O'Hanlon breaks down ESPN’s Race and Sports Survey. Does football have a future? Ben McGrath on the N.F.L. and the concussion crisis. George B. Kirsch on the patently false baseball myth that refuses to die. You should worship Kelly Slater: Why does the world's greatest surfer get no love? Caltech is considered one of the nation’s top research institutions, but it has trouble winning men’s basketball games. A book salon on Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love by Dave Zirin. When they’re not hitting a ball, the world’s leading sports stars are stabbing at the keys on their phone. Beyond Yao: An article on the future of Chinese basketball. White up the middle: How pro football changed the American racial psyche. In ESPN’s SportsCenter, the fan still finds solace — even order — in chaos. Making a racket: Claire Davis and Elizabeth Swinbank on the science of tennis. Peaked performance: Paul Kix on the case that human athletes have reached their limits. All hail Barcelona, the world's greatest soccer team. Despite the injuries, violence is why we like the sport — and that if the game is stripped of its physical cruelty, it will no longer be football.
