- July 2, 2007 • 11:07 am PDT
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You rarely walk out the door into the middle of a stickball game. Hear the sad tale of street sports in New York that are going the way of the dodo.

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Citizens in countries from Ireland to Canada to Austria are seeing less "utility" in organized religion.

Peace of mind in technofuturism and mass extinction in today's daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Environment HQ. Enjoy!
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Nine steps toward clapping loudly in public.
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By every metric imaginable, fantasy sports are growing fast.

For this week's GOOD Books, we suggest reading up on sports' greatest scandals.

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It's baseball season again, but what you might not notice amid the crack of the bat and roar of the crowd is that-a half-century after Jackie...
If you’re following the Argentinian World Cup soap opera featuring the wolfish Diego Maradona and the waifish Lionel Messi, you’re forgiven for...
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U.S. Soccer is being crucified by advocates for women’s sports for trying to treat the women’s pro league like a functioning business.

A new study linking students' grades to the football team's success is one of many ludicrous claims about how college sports are ruining America.

The people who want to ruin the way you watch and share sports are the people whose salaries are paid out of sports fans' pockets.

AEG envisions a world class event center and football stadium (and NFL team) in downtown L.A. But will it benefit the city?