The Rules Of: Watching Sports

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• Lifestyle

  

  Sudan Watch: Clooney Gets the World to Watch Sudan

  Clooney's new website is a satellite monitoring site so the world can try to prevent the next conflict in southern Sudan.

  by Ann Marie Gardner

• News

  

  Fantasy Non-Sports

  Tired of everyone in your office wasting their time on their fantasy sports teams? Well, now the playing field of fantasy games is being leveled,...

  by Anonymous

• News

  

  Cambodian Sports

  Decades of war and internal strife have left Cambodia with one of the highest proportions of people disabled by land mines in the world. The...

  by GOOD, Stefan Lovgren, Michael Schaubach, Erik Winkowski, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, MacKenzie Fegan, Danielle Flug, Daniel Milder

• Culture

  

  Transparency: The Tree of Sports Mascots

  Basketball and hockey have just wrapped up exciting playoffs, baseball is in full bloom, and football training camps are starting soon. It's a...

  by GOOD, Always With Honor

• Culture

  

  Infographic: The Fantasy Sports Economy

  By every metric imaginable, fantasy sports are growing fast.

  by Column Five Media

• Culture

  

  GOOD Books: Sports Scandals

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

  by Nina Lincoff

• News

  

  The Year in Sports Controversies

  Even non-sports fans couldn't ignore the athletic world this year, and for all the wrong reasons.

  by Megan Greenwell

• Transparency

  

  Transparency: Who Is Playing Sports?

  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...

  by GOOD, Kiss Me I'm Polish

• Culture

  

  Argentina’s Weird, Awesome “National Sport”

  If you’re following the Argentinian World Cup soap opera featuring the wolfish Diego Maradona and the waifish Lionel Messi, you’re forgiven for...

  by Zach Dundas

• Culture

  

  Is Bike Polo the Next Big Sport?

  Bike polo—or, to be precise, the streetwise variant known hardcourt bike polo—is easily one of the coolest underground sports stories right now....

  by Zach Dundas

• GOOD Blog

  

  New Video Series: The Wild Frontier of Sports

  The NFL, the NBA, MLB-they're all familiar enough. The world of sports is bigger than those commercially-backed behemoths, though. In our new...

  by GOOD

• Culture

  

  Picture Show: The Burgeoning Sport of Bike Polo

  The burgeoning sport of bike polo is capturing the hearts of bike aficionados in neighborhoods all across the country.

  by Patrick James, Cecily Upton

• Culture

  

  Is This the Most Amazing Streak in Sports?

  Among the many things they love for irrational reasons (free all-you-can-eat buffets, Anna Kournakova, the National Football League), sports...

  by Zach Dundas

• Culture

  

  Cricket Sticks a Wicket in the American Sports Scene

  “There is a limit to what Americans can understand. The limit is cricket.”   So says a character in Netherland, Joseph O’Neill’s acclaimed 2008...

  by Zach Dundas

• News

  

  Why Women's Sports Should Be Charities, Not Businesses

  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.

  by Megan Greenwell

• News

  

  Do College Sports Affect Students' Grades? A Defense of the NCAA

  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.

  by Megan Greenwell

• News

  

  No More Highlight Reels: How SOPA Would Hurt Sports Fans

  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.

  by Megan Greenwell

• Cities

  

  Football in Los Angeles: Do Professional Sports Benefit Cities?

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

  by Patrick James

• Culture

  

  Super Bowls (and Other Major Sporting Events) Are Terrible for Homeless People

  The city of Dallas threatened its homeless with arrest if they frequented places close to Super Bowl events. This sort of thing happens a lot.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Lifestyle

  

  How Pickle Juice Changed the World of Sports: Food Innovations From the Football Field

  Pickle juice is one of football’s enigmatic contributions to science.

  by Peter Smith