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Displaying all articles tagged:
Nfl
games
Feb. 16, 2021
Sports Have Been a Shadow of Themselves Without Fans
The wisdom of bringing spectators back right now is debatable. But there’s no arguing how much they’ve been missed.
By
Will Leitch
games
Jan. 26, 2021
A Marquee Super Bowl Is the NFL’s Reward for Cutting Corners
COVID schmovid. It’s Tom Brady versus Patrick Mahomes!
By
Will Leitch
games
Jan. 11, 2021
Bill Belichick Can’t Escape Trump That Easily
The Patriots coach declined a Medal of Freedom, but his and other Trump-friendly sports figures’ legacies remain linked to the president.
By
Will Leitch
games
Dec. 8, 2020
How Sports Leagues Are Gearing Up for Another Weird Season
Everyone is hoping for vaccine-enabled normalcy in 2021, but some sports are better positioned than others to wait things out.
By
Will Leitch
games
Dec. 1, 2020
The NFL Is Too Big to Let COVID Stop It
The increasingly pandemic-afflicted league has learned an important lesson from other sports: Just keep playing.
By
Will Leitch
games
Oct. 13, 2020
The Fans Can Go to Games Again. Will They?
The stadiums are open, but fans aren’t exactly rushing through the doors.
By
Will Leitch
games
Oct. 6, 2020
Why Are Pandemic Sports Ratings So Terrible?
Some theories on why viewers have unexpectedly turned away in droves.
By
Will Leitch
games
Sept. 16, 2020
If Athletes Want to Force Real Change, They Need to Stop Playing
Social-justice momentum in the NBA and NFL is already stalling. Radical action is needed.
By
Will Leitch
games
Sept. 8, 2020
The NFL Is Returning To a Different World. Can It Adapt?
Every NFL season brings with it madness and unpredictability, but none has ever had more potential for implosion than this one.
By
Will Leitch
coronavirus
July 10, 2020
When (and How) Sports Are Returning Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
In the next few weeks, the MLB, NBA, and NHL will start playing again — but they’ll look wildly different.
By
Adam K. Raymond
games
June 9, 2020
Roger Goodell’s Black Lives Matter Moment Is a Sign of Trump’s Weakness
The president never actually had that much power over the NFL. Now, he has none.
By
Will Leitch
george floyd protests
June 6, 2020
NFL Players, Employee Forced Goodell’s Protest Ban Apology
The NFL commissioner apologized on Friday for the league’s ban on the protests started by Colin Kaepernick, but not to Kaepernick, and not on his own.
By
Chas Danner
games
June 2, 2020
Sports Have Never Felt More Meaningless Than Right Now
Their return won’t do anything to make our troubled moment feel any more normal.
By
Will Leitch
games
May 19, 2020
It’s Probably Not Safe for Sports to Come Back. That May Not Matter.
Both executives and fans have shown before that they’ll put entertainment over player safety.
By
Will Leitch
games
May 12, 2020
The Big Questions Sports Leagues Have to Answer Before They Reopen
A big one: What happens if a player tests positive for coronavirus in the middle of the season?
By
Will Leitch
games
Apr. 30, 2020
When Your Favorite Sport Might Be Coming Back
Slowly but surely, the big American leagues are planning their returns.
By
Will Leitch
games
Apr. 21, 2020
The NFL’s Pandemic Strategy Is to Ignore the Pandemic
So far, timing has worked in the league’s favor. But its business-as-usual approach smacks of magical thinking.
By
Will Leitch
games
Mar. 31, 2020
How Desperate Are Sports Leagues Right Now? This Desperate.
You know it’s bad when we’ve reached the “playing in a biodome” phase of discussion.
By
Will Leitch
games
Mar. 24, 2020
How Screwed Is Your Favorite Sport’s Season?
A survey of the damage coronavirus has wrought among the NFL (fine so far), NBA (up in the air), and other major leagues.
By
Will Leitch
super bowl
Feb. 3, 2020
The Super Bowl Showed That the NFL Is Back on Top
On a night when everything went right for the league, its recent turbulent history seemed like a long time ago.
By
Will Leitch
games
Sept. 24, 2019
The Thrill of Defeat
It’s impossible to keep sports fans happy, but maybe that’s not the point.
By
Will Leitch
games
Sept. 5, 2019
We’re All Fake Fans Now
We know more about athletes than ever, but it hasn’t made them more human to us.
By
Will Leitch
the sports section
Aug. 27, 2019
U.S. Soccer Star Carli Lloyd Nets NFL Invite After Nailing 55-Yard Field Goal
Lloyd sees the potential for a “pioneering moment for women.”
By
Adam K. Raymond
games
Aug. 23, 2019
The Joyous Masochism of Rooting for the Cleveland Browns
The most desultory team in the NFL is going to be very good and very fun this season.
By
Will Leitch
games
July 30, 2019
Peyton Manning’s Undeserved Reputation Is His Greatest Achievement
Somehow, none of the scandals seem to have stuck.
By
Will Leitch
football
Feb. 4, 2019
Trump: Football Is Too Unsafe for My Son, Not Unsafe Enough for Others
The president says football is too “dangerous” for Barron — and that the NFL isn’t as “vicious” and “violent” as it should be.
By
Eric Levitz
games
Feb. 4, 2019
Lessons From a Very, Very Bad Super Bowl
It was the first time I’d ever experienced FOMO
while being
at the Super Bowl
.
By
Will Leitch
games
Jan. 29, 2019
Was the NFL’s Success This Season Just a ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?
After years of trouble, football got popular again in 2018. Why?
By
Will Leitch
government shutdown
Jan. 17, 2019
How the Government Shutdown Could Derail the Super Bowl
Atlanta’s airport is a disaster and city officials are getting worried.
By
Adam K. Raymond
games
Jan. 15, 2019
If You Could Play Any Sport, Which One Should You Choose?
(I don’t think it’s football or baseball.)
By
Will Leitch
games
Jan. 9, 2019
College Football Players Are Going to Start Quitting Bowl Games
Maybe even on college football altogether. The only question is how soon.
By
Will Leitch
games
Dec. 19, 2018
Why Tom Brady’s Decline Sucks Even for Tom Brady Haters
All of a sudden, we can’t even hate the guy guiltlessly.
By
Will Leitch
native americans
Dec. 11, 2018
The Washington Redskins’ Interest in Colin Kaepernick Went Nowhere. Good.
Racism is the Redskins organization’s calling card. Kaepernick’s racial-justice protest is incompatible with its values.
By
Zak Cheney-Rice
games
Dec. 4, 2018
The NFL’s Real Problem Isn’t Kareem Hunt. It’s Roger Goodell.
The NFL’s incompetence and apathy in responding to domestic violence makes it seem like the league is awash in abusers. It isn’t.
By
Will Leitch
just asking questions
Nov. 27, 2018
Donald Trump Doomed a Football League, But He’d Have Been a Great NFL Owner
Author Jeff Pearlman on how Trump’s time as a USFL owner predicted so much of his presidential behavior, including his feud with the NFL.
By
Joe DeLessio
games
Oct. 16, 2018
The NBA Now Feels Like the Future, and the NFL the Past
But it was not, at all, destined to work out that way. How one decision by then-newbie commissioner Adam Silver changed the course of sports history.
By
Will Leitch
games
Sept. 5, 2018
How Nike Got All the Way to Lionizing Colin Kaepernick
Hint: It’s not really about politics.
By
Will Leitch
sports
Sept. 4, 2018
Nike Debuts Colin Kaepernick Ad, Conservatives Protest by Burning Their Own Gear
Nike’s move appears less risky when you consider that Kaep’s protests are most unpopular with older white Republicans – not their core demographic.
By
Margaret Hartmann
sports
Aug. 31, 2018
In Blow to NFL, Arbitrator Rules Colin Kaepernick’s Collusion Case Can Continue
The NFL’s request to have the complaint dismissed due to lack of evidence was dismissed, and a full hearing is expected by the end of the year.
By
Margaret Hartmann
the sports section
Aug. 10, 2018
The NFL’s Back, and So Are Trump’s Attacks on Protesting Players
Two members of the Miami Dolphins took a knee during the anthem on Thursday and someone got very cranky.
By
Adam K. Raymond
games
July 30, 2018
Welcome to Our New Gambling Hell, Sports Fans
The Supreme Court has just unleashed misery on the average viewer.
By
Will Leitch
the sports section
July 20, 2018
NFL Anthem Protest Policy Put on Hold Under Agreement With Players’ Union
The joint announcement came hours after a report that the Miami Dolphins might suspend protesters for four games sparked new outrage.
By
Margaret Hartmann
games
July 11, 2018
Nobody’s Going to Sports in Person Anymore. And No One Seems to Care.
Which may be because it’s all by design.
By
Will Leitch
games
June 27, 2018
The Sports World Needs Its #MeToo Moment
Unfortunately, when fans don’t care, executives certainly won’t.
By
Will Leitch
the national interest
June 10, 2018
The Rule of Law Is Crumbling Further Each Day Under Trump
Football, pardons, and the authoritarian nightmare.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 5, 2018
Trump Unable to Remember Words to ‘God Bless America’ at Fake Fan Rally
The White House event was heavy on compulsory authoritarian demonstrations of ersatz nationalism, and light on genuine patriotism.
By
Jonathan Chait
June 5, 2018
Trump Is Going to Lose His War on Football
This is not like picking a cultural fight with the New York
Times
or Rosie O’Donnell.
By
Jonathan Chait
June 5, 2018
Facing Boycott, Trump Disinvites Philadelphia Eagles From White House
With fewer than ten Eagles planning to attend, Trump decided to avoid embarrassment and ratchet up his feud with NFL players over anthem protests.
By
Margaret Hartmann
games
May 30, 2018
Roger Goodell Is the Prototypical Trump Enabler
The NFL commissioner, an empty suit staring into the middle distance, just keeps making everything worse for everyone.
By
Will Leitch
the national interest
May 24, 2018
Most Unpatriotic President Ever Says NFL Kneelers ‘Shouldn’t Be in the Country’
Trump’s embrace of patriotism is an obvious fraud. No president has ever betrayed American values or interests like he does.
By
Jonathan Chait
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