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The Joy of Football

Thomas Bowden | 25 January 2012
The Super Bowl Offers a Too-Rare Celebration of Goal-Achievement

A Personal Inequity: Me and Michael Jordan

Thomas Sowell | 13 July 2009
The problem with trying to equalize is that you can usually only equalize downward.

O.J. Simpson and The High Cost of Favoritism

Thomas Sowell | 9 December 2008
What seems to run through many stories of people who take huge risks for small pay-offs is a sense that the rules simply do not apply to them.

The Joy of Football: The Super Bowl Offers a Too-Rare Celebration of Goal-Achievement

Thomas Bowden | 1 February 2008
Sports give us a look at heroes in action.

Say It Ain't So: Shoeless Joe Jackson, Michael Vick, and Barry Bonds

Thomas Sowell | 13 December 2007
Shoeless Joe Jackson was the only man to bat .382 in his last season in the major leagues. After that he was banned for life for his role in the "black sox scandal," the deliberate throwing of the 1919 World Series.

Johnny U: The Life and Times of Johnny Unitas

Joseph Kellard | 29 January 2007
On Super Bowl Sunday, Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts will once again don the same white helmet with blue horseshoes that another star quarterback wore in a championship game nearly 50 years ago.

The Joy of Football: The Super Bowl Offers a Too-Rare Celebration of Goal-Achievement

Thomas Bowden | 2 February 2006
Sports give us a look at heroes in action.

An Open Letter to Dan Marino

Joseph Kellard | 7 August 2005
Dan Marino, the most productive quarterback in National Football League history, was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on Sunday, August 7.

Lance Armstrong's Heroism Is a Moral Inspiration

Andrew Bernstein | 26 July 2005
When Lance Armstrong rode through Paris on Sunday, crowning his unprecedented seventh consecutive victory in the grueling Tour de France, he put an exclamation mark on what is more than merely an extraordinary athletic career.

The Third Pillar of Olympism?

Cheryl Chumley | 28 August 2004
Where will the long-winding path of U.N. influence over the Olympics ultimately lead?
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