In an essay for Sports Illustrated, former Celtics player Jason Collins has become the first major American team sport athlete to come out while an active player, and he's citing a Massachusetts congressman as inspiration: I realized I … [Read more...]
NBA Labor Problems
According to today's Boston Globe and SI.com, contract negotiations between the NBA referees' union and the NBA have broken down. A lockout appears "imminent and unavoidable" in the words of the union's chief negotiator. Back in 1995 when … [Read more...]
NBA Finals? Not so fast…
He makes a good case: Yes, Boston has won four games and Detroit only two. But it's hard to imagine a more arbitrary and undemocratic way to determine this series's outcome than "games won." It is, after all, a bedrock value of the game of … [Read more...]
Really homophobic remarks
So much time is spent (I feel) on this blog and others making false accusations of homophobia or racism, or blowing little things out of proportion in what is perhaps a desire to label people as racists or homophobes, that we are sometimes … [Read more...]