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Big Win for Arlington, Thanks to Dallas Cowboys
The AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is home to the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. The stadium, opened in 2009, cost $1.3 billion to build with city taxpayers pitching in $325 million. The team is valued...
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Pro Football’s Unsportsmanlike Conduct
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell during a news conference at Tiffany and Co. in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) When Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men are created equal, his...
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A World Cup for the Wealthy, Not the People
Here in polyglot New York, pop into any bar, restaurant or even dry cleaner and chances are there’s a TV set tuned to the World Cup. The fever has taken hold in our city as it has around the planet,...
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Welcome to Your Local NFL Stadium: Home of the Sensitive and Easily Offended
A new NFL season starts tonight, and I’m going to let you in on a little secret: sporting arenas can be a rancid soup of racism, misogyny, homophobia, jingoism and all-around alcohol-soaked nastiness....
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Why Colin Kaepernick Matters
Every year at about this time, I veer away from most of the liberal aesthetes with whom I mingle in the chattering classes. My newspaper reading and smart-phone clicking takes an unexpected detour from...
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What the NFL Says About America
They call it “America’s game.” The National Football League is the most popular sport in the country by most metrics, and it isn’t even close — from polls in which fans state their favorite, to the...
View ArticleBig Win for Arlington, Thanks to Dallas Cowboys
As mayor of Arlington, Texas, a beautiful city in the middle of Dallas and Fort Worth, my goal is to uncover new opportunities that will benefit the nearly 400,000 residents who live here. When the...
View ArticlePro Football’s Unsportsmanlike Conduct
The hugely profitable NFL is throwing its weight around to keep information about the dangerous side effects of concussions under wraps. Continue reading The post Pro Football’s Unsportsmanlike Conduct...
View ArticleA World Cup for the Wealthy, Not the People
Dave Zirin discusses the Brazilian people's protests against huge sporting events that catch the world's eye but deepen inequality and divert resources from where they're needed most in a country...
View ArticleWelcome to Your Local NFL Stadium: Home of the Sensitive and Easily Offended
Ultimately, Kaepernick critics are pitching a well-worn trope: that there are correct and incorrect ways in which our rights can be exercised.The right to show your patriotism by standing during the...
View ArticleWhy Colin Kaepernick Matters
Every year at about this time, I veer away from most of the liberal aesthetes with whom I mingle in the chattering classes. My newspaper reading and smart-phone clicking takes an unexpected detour from...
View ArticleWhat the NFL Says About America
They call it “America’s game.” The National Football League is the most popular sport in the country by most metrics, and it isn’t even close — from polls in which fans state their favorite, to the...
View ArticleOn “Taking a Knee”
In response to the breathtaking, turning-point events of the past several weeks, Archives for Research into Archetypal Symbolism has produced a special video exploring and amplifying the symbolism of...
View ArticleUnsanitized: What Will It Take to Shock People Out of Their Routines?
What is going to shock people away from their normal routines?I mean, it’s probably football, our secular religion in America. Continue reading The post Unsanitized: What Will It Take to Shock People...
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