Department Index
Sports Nut 2009:
The stadium scene.
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- Steroids, Anyone? Tennis is one of the few sports that hasn't been tainted by doping scandals. Can any sport possibly be that clean?
July 1, 2009 - You Call That a Strike?! Why does Major League Baseball use an outdated, misleading camera angle to show the batter and pitcher?
June 25, 2009 - Moneygolf What can stat geeks tell us about what it takes to win on the links?
June 18, 2009 - Zen and the Art of Winning NBA Championships Who has the better life philosophy, Phil Jackson or Stan Van Gundy?
June 12, 2009 - Wanted: Insane Tennis Parents The only way to end America's Grand Slam drought.
June 2, 2009 - Kobe the Kingmaker The NBA's ultimate rivalry: Kobe Bryant vs. the Guy Beating Kobe Bryant.
May 28, 2009 - You're Out The national pastime's shocking death toll.
May 26, 2009 - Why Is Michael Phelps Tinkering With Success? Wasn't his old stroke good enough for Olympic gold?
May 20, 2009 - Quit Horsing Around Is the new, less debauched Preakness Stakes still fun?
May 18, 2009 - Baseball Is Like Tag The winners of Slate's "Define Baseball in 150 Words" contest.
May 7, 2009 - Do NBA Players Try Harder in the Playoffs? The guys from Basketball Prospectus try to quantify the intangibles.
May 5, 2009 - Rookie Abuse In 1970, James "Yazoo" Smith sued the NFL to shut down the draft. What happened next?
April 23, 2009 - Define Baseball in 150 Words A Slate contest.
April 17, 2009 - Cocktail Chatter: NBA Playoffs Edition How to fake your way through the 2009 postseason.
April 16, 2009 - In the Hole Watching the Masters in a recession.
April 13, 2009 - The Final Snore A charmless oligarchy of schools has sucked the excitement out of the NCAA Tournament.
April 3, 2009 - Wake Me When It's Over Is this the most boring NCAA Tournament ever?
March 24, 2009 - Teams We Hate Duke, Eric Devendorf, and five more odious things about this year's NCAA Tournament.
March 18, 2009 - How To Win Your NCAA Pool Act like a hedge-fund manager, and pick Duke to win it all.
March 18, 2009 - The Year of Magical Shooting How Stephen Curry became a basketball folk hero.
March 12, 2009 - Going Battier Can Michael Lewis' latest article make me a better pickup basketball player?
Feb. 24, 2009 - Deep in the Glute of Texas How did A-Rod's Rangers become ground zero for baseball's steroids scandal?
Feb. 18, 2009 - King NBA What's with the overpraise for pro basketball commissioner David Stern?
Feb. 13, 2009 - Alex Rodriguez, Fallen Hero? Nobody liked him before the steroids, nobody likes him now.
Feb. 8, 2009 - The QB That Saved Pittsburgh Ben Roethlisberger leads the Steelers to an amazing comeback win in Super Bowl XLIII.
Feb. 2, 2009 - Flipping Awful Why the NFL should replace the overtime coin toss with an auction system.
Jan. 29, 2009 - My Son Is the Greatest Football Player Ever Sportswriter Larry Fitzgerald Sr. says he can cover his son objectively. Why does Rick Reilly believe him?
Jan. 26, 2009 - Razing Arizona The Cardinals' presence in the Super Bowl is fluky and disgraceful.
Jan. 26, 2009 - Fictional Moldovan Soccer Phenom Tells All Inside the ingenious hoax that fooled the British sports press.
Jan. 23, 2009 - How the Philadelphia Eagles Saved Their Season They did absolutely nothing.
Jan. 15, 2009 - Boycott the BCS! A statistical analyst takes a stand against college football's perverse, irrational Bowl Championship Series.
Jan. 7, 2009


