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Indian Cricket Fans, Prepare To Get Crushed

Football Has Come To the Subcontinent. And People Like It.

Now that the Super Bowl has come and gone, we can all now turn our attention to India’s Elite Football League (EFLI). That’s right: Football, the most quintessential of American sports, is trying to gain a foothold (pardon the expression) in India.

I’m a sports documentary filmmaker, and when I first heard news of an American football league in India, I immediately felt drawn to make it the subject of my next film. I had been to India multiple times in the last few years for other reasons and found the …

by Evan Rosenfeld |

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A Super Bowl of Guilt

Should We Feel Bad About Watching Football Players Concuss Their Brains?

by Kevin Cook |

Forty years ago, as pro football blew past baseball in popularity, NFL players were more relatable. Franco Harris, the 1972 Rookie of the Year, used to hitchhike to practice. The …

The Agony and the Lack of Ecstasy of Rooting for the Bills

What Did Buffalo Ever Do to Earn the Wrath of the Sporting Gods?

by Eyal Press |

This coming weekend will be thrilling—and potentially heartbreaking—for fans of the Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, and Atlanta Falcons, the four teams vying to advance to Super …

How to Cure L.A. Laker Dwight Howard’s Stage Fright

Anyone Can Get Caught In a Bad Cognitive Loop. Mojo Is the Ticket Out.

by Gordon Goodman |

Does Dwight Howard have stage fright?

Howard, who stands 6’10”, is one of the most successful basketball players of this era. This season, he will make $19 million playing center for …

Why Livestrong Will Die

Brands Are Fragile. Lance Armstrong Killed His.

by Sarah Banet-Weiser |

This month, Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the International Cycling Union after evidence of his major role in a widespread doping ring was …

Euro Woes

Forget about the German-Greek Showdown; Root for the Brits

by Charles Kenny |

Germany meets Greece in soccer’s European Championship on Friday, and–given the crisis that ties together their two star-crossed economies–life once more will become the metaphor for sports, and sports for …


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