Simon Maxwell Apter, 07.29.2010
Writer in New York
Tatum's death comes just as the NFL is beginning to begrudgingly address its issues with player safety and his legacy provides an interesting platform from which to look at the future of football.
Melissa Ross, 07.28.2010
Host/Producer, First Coast Connect, WJCT-FM
Ari Gold is on a mission. As all Entourage fans know, the super-agent portrayed so winningly by Jeremy Piven is this close to a deal that would bring an NFL franchise to Los Angeles.
Dexter Rogers, 07.27.2010
National Sports Columnist, Examiner.com
Michael Vick needs to play well and monitor what he does on and off the field. Vick should now understand more than ever that there are some in the media and otherwise who want to see him fail.
Joe Favorito, 07.26.2010
Sports and entertainment communications, marketing and branding consultant
In many places across the country, Ron Barr's interviews on the syndicated SportsByline USA radio network have been the soundtrack and the touchstone for hundreds of thousands of sports fans.
Dexter Rogers, 07.22.2010
National Sports Columnist, Examiner.com
The overall system of collegiate athletics is faulty and hypocritical. It's a system that favors every rung of the athletic equation except for the most central cog: the athlete.
Amber Holley, 07.22.2010
Associate at Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert (KWIKA)
Although once idolized for his feats on the football field and later respected as an affable, Cheshire-grinned news and sports correspondent, these days Tiki Barber is making a lot of folks very unhappy.
Daniel Amen, M.D., 07.21.2010
Does playing professional football put players at risk for long-term damage to the brain?
Max Bergmann, 07.19.2010
Editor, Association Football
With Spurs now on the cusp of Champions League football and with a new stadium in the works, many Americans may be scratching their heads asking, what in the world is a Hotspur?
Jason Gurwin, 07.19.2010
Serial Entrepreneur
There is tremendous room to create a more dynamic live experience at sporting events. The innovation that will win is the one that creates the ultimate fan experience in one application on the user's own hardware.
Nader Jahanfard, 07.20.2010
Sports journalist
The referees left a bitter taste in everyone's mouth with their horrible officiating. On the bright side, it forced big boss Sepp Blatter to accept the fact that FIFA needs to implement technology to control the game.
Andrew Brandt, 07.17.2010
President, The National Football Post
This week saw the long-awaited release of the Green Bay Packers' financial report for the preceding fiscal year, a report sure to draw a lot attention and interest in the ongoing labor dispute between the NFL and the NFL Players Association.
Craig and Marc Kielburger, 07.16.2010
Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger, Co-Founders, Free The Children
It's not just the absence of the incessant vuvuzela casting an eerie silence across South Africa.
Instead it's the fading buzz of planes carrying about 300,000 tourists home.
Dexter Rogers, 07.16.2010
National Sports Columnist, Examiner.com
Let me start off by saying I'm not the biggest Terrell Owens fan in the world. But as sports fans and even journalists, we rarely get to see the "true" person.
Yehuda Berg, 07.14.2010
Best Selling Author, Agent of Change, Spiritual Teacher
Every four years, people of all shapes and sizes, ethnicities and countries, gather around stadiums, watering holes, and television sets, to witness what many believe is the world's most exciting sporting event, the FIFA world cup.
Avital Binshtock, 07.14.2010
Sierra magazine's lifestyle editor and editor of the Sierra Club's Green Life blog
Today a group of professional athletes and Olympians boarded a fishing boat to tour the oil devastation on the Gulf Coast. Then they held Sierra Club-hosted conference to share their impressions of the damage.
Alyssa Jung, 07.09.2010
Contributing Writer at www.chicksinthehuddle.com
My life will be complete in just about three months. The Bills' home opener is Sunday, Sept. 12, and I'll be there.
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright, 07.08.2010
Originally from Iceland, sexologist, relationship expert, and columnist Dr. Yvonne Kristín Fulbrigh ...
It's down to the last climactic moment. On Saturday, the Netherlands and Spain will play for the 2010 World Cup title, inspiring orgasmic reactions on...
Lapham's Quarterly, 07.07.2010
Editor, Lapham's Quarterly
Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Justicialism, and the National Reorganization Process -- at least they win championships.
Tom Gerdy, 07.06.2010
I have always loved the quote, "The older I get, the better I was." As tales of sporting glory are told through the years, the distance between memory and reality often grows.
Kyle G. Brown, 07.06.2010
Journalist and creator of GlobalNewsbeat.com
Beyond the scoreboard, there has long lurked a sense that South Africa must prove itself capable of presiding over the biggest sporting event on the planet to a world that has been waiting for it to fail.
Roger I. Abrams, 07.05.2010
Authority on Sports Law
The egregious mistakes made by World Cup field officials are far more insufferable than the incessant vuvuzelas. These kinds of errors, made while the world is watching, can be both embarrassing and dangerous.