Once again, figure skating is a terrible sport.
olympics
We interrupt this regularly scheduled Dead Horses in American History blogging to bring you 1980 in one image: Willie Nelson on a golf course, jingoism, the Cold War, the last.
I suppose there aren't a whole lot of places in Russia where horrible things haven't happened. But still: History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who.
I'm not particularly comfortable with the idea of boycotting the Winter Olympics in Russia because of the nation's anti-gay laws. Mostly, I don't think it's fair to athletes to be used as pawns in a political game and I do think that athletes can become...
Nick Sarantakes of the Naval War College and I talked Olympic politics on the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements. Here we talk about the difference that a Cold War makes:
The fact that a young sportswriter named Brent Musberger called Tommie Smith and John Carlos "a pair of black skinned stormtroopers" after they raised the black power fist at the.
I briefly flirted with writing about this, but what's the point? By all accounts, including that of the PSNI, the UVF started it, and the "dissident Republicans" shot back. Whatever. London (and England, and even a bit of Wales) is hosting the 2012 Olympics. Normally,...
No, I'm not discussing a Canadian perspective on the ignominy of losing to an inferior team, in their national sport, during the Olympics, in Canada. Though that must still sting.
Last week, Ban Ki-Moon made his standard plea for an Olympic Truce during the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Feb. 12 to Feb. 28 February and the X Winter Paralympic.
Mr. Trend has an outstanding post that explains what the selection of Rio means in the wider arc of Brazilian history. With all due respect, however, it's obvious that Trend discounts the fact that a ACORN Chicago Olympics would have at last clarified the vast...
One of the strangest aspects of the moral panic over fat in our culture is the bizarre concept that having a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is "normal." It certainly.
Even if the US manages to beat out China for the most medals this year, I expect that China pretty much has a lock on the medal count for the.