by Free Sport | Aug 28, 2012 | Free Sport
Few figures in sports have so effectively combined their personal athletic accomplishments with a larger social significance as Muhammad Ali. Among Ali’s more memorable and inspirational insights is this: “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by...
by Free Sport | Aug 31, 2012 | Free Sport
Here’s some good off-the-field news on the football front. The San Francisco 49ers recently became the first NFL team to record a video for the It Gets Better Project. The football 49ers follow in the footsteps of the city’s baseball Giants, who were the...
by Free Sport | Sep 4, 2012 | Free Sport
Apparently unwilling to divorce themselves from the overly cherished myth of the self-made man, Republicans took to the offensive for their convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum this week, and christened their slightly-less-than-week-long celebration of all things...
by Free Sport | Sep 9, 2012 | Free Sport
The North Shore. Endless Summer. Sunshine, sandy shores, and sultry surf breaks. The often-stuffy study of economics is just about the last thing most of us think about when considering the activity, the sport, the lifestyle of surfing. Yet a new type of economics,...
by Free Sport | Sep 11, 2012 | Free Sport
Chris Kluwe, punter for the Minnesota Vikings, kicked off his 2012 football season by writing on open letter to Emmett C. Burns, Jr., Democratic State Senator from Maryland, voraciously criticising the senator’s suggestion that Baltimore Ravens linebacker...