Sports
NCAA’s Penn State punishment raises questions
July 31, 2012If the NCAA believes in making education a priority, then why is it taking away scholarships from up to 80 student athletes over the duration of the penalty?
Read moreBehind London Olympics spectacular sports, a dark side
July 24, 2012While the 2012 Summer Olympics bring athletes together in spectacles of sport, the Games will also bring crippling debt, especially galling given the latest austerity measures in the UK.
Read moreWelcome to the London lockdown
July 18, 2012Parliament is moving center-stage as crises of private-sector greed and incompetence are laid before select committees.
Read moreNuclear waste and other tales from London: Capitalism and the Olympics
June 26, 2012The Games have become a hopeful, yet often futile, source of economic revitalization and jobs for the host city or country, which instead often winds up in debt. Greece is case in point.
Read moreThis day in history: Muhammad Ali convicted for his anti-war stand
June 20, 2012On June 20, 1967, boxing champion and Olympic gold medal winner Muhammad Ali was convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years.
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