Sports

‘Train hard and prove these losers wrong!’ – Women’s sports and the 2024 Olympics

August 16, 2024 By Taryn Fivek

VIDEO: Were the 2024 Olympics another battle in the war on women's sports, a case of trans panic, or both? For the right wing, the answer was all of the above.

Daily Worker 1936: Black athletes embarrass Hitler at Nazi Olympics

July 26, 2024 By Joseph North

Hitler hoped the Games would showcase Aryan racial superiority, but the Fuhrer’s plans were ruined by Black athletes like Jesse Owens.

Thanks to global warming, Grand Slam tennis is hotter than ever

September 7, 2023 By Howard Fendrich, Mary Katherine Wildeman And Brian Mahoney

Since 1988, the maximum temperature at the major tennis tournaments has risen by nearly 5 degrees F.

‘Black Ice’: Documentary exposes history of racism and anti-Blackness in hockey and Canada

July 13, 2023 By Chauncey K. Robinson

You may never think of hockey—or Canada—the same way again.

The games are great, the ticket process is not

June 12, 2023 By Jon Tait

Travel to games and the cost of getting in are a real impediment to working-class enjoyment of sports.