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LeBron James’ first NBA free agency decision, back in 2010, was met with contempt. James went on national television to dump northeast Ohio, his home, for Miami; Cleveland fans burned his jersey in the streets. The public turned on him. His second move, four years ago, was feted. After winning two titles in South Beach, […]
Winning a gold medal at the Olympic Games comes with a lot of perks—respect, admiration, national pride— but not, apparently, upgraded seats on the trip home. Free upgrades are apparently harder to score than curling points. The U.S. men’s curling team scored an impressive upset at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, coming from behind to […]
Olympic skater Adam Rippon says he has remained “focused” on competing despite his ongoing feud with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence over the politician’s stance on gay rights. Rippon, who is openly gay, has previously criticized Pence’s views of same-sex Americans. Pence, meanwhile, is heading up the American delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics, being […]
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games are underway in PyeongChang, South Korea — but the time difference between South Korea and the United States can make it challenging to figure out when to watch the big events. From Adam Rippon, the first openly gay American figure skater to go to the Olympics, to Mira Nagasu, who […]
The main show at the 2019 Super Bowl is on the field, with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots facing off against Jared Goff and his Los Angeles Rams. But there’s a big battle between the game, too, as major companies and advertisers spend millions of dollars to get your attention during the commercial […]
IDEAS Jacoby is the author of the Why Baseball Matters, recently published by Yale University Press. Baseball is a booming business. With total annual revenues of more than $10 billion (yes, billion) last season — a record — and enjoying a 24-year era of labor peace, the game first dubbed the “national pastime” in print […]
Five former Houston Texans cheerleaders are suing the team for alleged harassment and unfair compensation, joining a growing cohort of cheerleaders who have spoken out against the NFL. “We were harassed, we were bullied and we were body-shamed for $7.25 an hour,” Ainsley Parish, one of the former cheerleaders who is suing, told CNN Money. […]
The 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang have been a wild ride from the start, with unbelievable upsets, do-or-die moments and come-from-behind victories constantly keeping viewers on the edge of their seats. But unfortunately for winter sports fans, all Olympics must come to an end. The Games will officially conclude this weekend, with the produced broadcast of […]
The Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, may have left Americans a little hungry for the Games to return to the U.S. Fortunately, they won’t have to wait long. Los Angeles will host the Summer Olympics in 2028, more than four decades after the city last hosted the Games in […]
Canada may have lost out on gold in the Olympic women’s hockey final, but it definitely wasn’t due to a lack of enthusiasm from Scott Moir. As the Canadians duked it out with Team USA at Gangneung Hockey Centre on Thursday, the victorious ice dancer was spotted getting rowdy in the crowd. Moir—whose longtime partner […]