Ahmed Taha (Wake Forest): Are College Athletes Economically Exploited? Fixing college sports: Why paying student athletes won't work. 2011 is the year Dave Zirin learned to hate college football: Unless we boycott sham amateurism and indentured servitude masquerading as sport, we will never reclaim sports. Questions about why college football programs breed scandal and off the field violence might want to look at high school football for clues. Would colleges be better off without football? A look at how contracts for top college football coaches grow complicated. Would Jesus love football? Rodney Clapp wonders. In the name of the Father: Tod Gitlin on how college sports came to be above the law. The Green Bay Packers have the best owners in football: The fans are shareholders, the CEO is a union leader and ex-player, the city is a dot on the map — the bizarre anomaly of the franchise that rules the NFL. Football is better than soccer: An Englishman abandons the beautiful game for the NFL. James M. Dorsey (NTU): Soccer: A Middle East and North African Battlefield. From The Point, Ben Jeffery on soccer and schizophrenia. From Swans, Gregory Elich on class struggle on the baseball diamond: A review essay. Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier on the economics of Moneyball: Do the principles really work anymore? Elite athletes increasingly depend on technology to help them win — but what constitutes an unfair advantage, and who should decide? Timothy Liam Epstein on how sports' unions help maintain integrity of competition. A look at what the public can learn from sports riots. Fighting Words: Christine Ammer on military terms that apply to sports. With a Web presence, strong writers and now a print quarterly, Grantland opens the conversation on a new way of thinking about sportswriting and the games we play.
