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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?
  Bill Gifford 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 Why does Major League Baseball use an outdated, misleading camera angle to show the batter and pitcher?
  Greg Hanlon June 25, 2009
  
• Moneygolf What can stat geeks tell us about what it takes to win on the links?
  Michael Agger June 18, 2009
  
• Zen and the Art of Winning NBA Championships Who has the better life philosophy, Phil Jackson or Stan Van Gundy?
  Tom Scocca June 12, 2009
  
• Wanted: Insane Tennis Parents The only way to end America's Grand Slam drought.
  Huan Hsu June 2, 2009
  
• Kobe the Kingmaker The NBA's ultimate rivalry: Kobe Bryant vs. the Guy Beating Kobe Bryant.
  Tom Scocca May 28, 2009
  
• You're Out The national pastime's shocking death toll.
  Jon Mooallem May 26, 2009
  
• Why Is Michael Phelps Tinkering With Success? Wasn't his old stroke good enough for Olympic gold?
  Brian Palmer May 20, 2009
  
• Quit Horsing Around Is the new, less debauched Preakness Stakes still fun?
  Christopher Beam May 18, 2009
  
• Baseball Is Like Tag The winners of Slate's "Define Baseball in 150 Words" contest.
  John Dickerson May 7, 2009
  
• Do NBA Players Try Harder in the Playoffs? The guys from Basketball Prospectus try to quantify the intangibles.
  Bradford Doolittle May 5, 2009
  
• Rookie Abuse In 1970, James "Yazoo" Smith sued the NFL to shut down the draft. What happened next?
  Eriq Gardner April 23, 2009
  
• Define Baseball in 150 Words A Slate contest.
  John Dickerson April 17, 2009
  
• Cocktail Chatter: NBA Playoffs Edition How to fake your way through the 2009 postseason.
  Justin Peters April 16, 2009
  
• In the Hole Watching the Masters in a recession.
  Robert Weintraub April 13, 2009
  
• The Final Snore A charmless oligarchy of schools has sucked the excitement out of the NCAA Tournament.
  Charles P. Pierce April 3, 2009
  
• Wake Me When It's Over Is this the most boring NCAA Tournament ever?
  Robert Weintraub March 24, 2009
  
• Teams We Hate Duke, Eric Devendorf, and five more odious things about this year's NCAA Tournament.
  Josh Levin March 18, 2009
  
• How To Win Your NCAA Pool Act like a hedge-fund manager, and pick Duke to win it all.
  Chris Wilson March 18, 2009
  
• The Year of Magical Shooting How Stephen Curry became a basketball folk hero.
  Tommy Craggs March 12, 2009
  
• Going Battier Can Michael Lewis' latest article make me a better pickup basketball player?
  Dan Kois Feb. 24, 2009
  
• Deep in the Glute of Texas How did A-Rod's Rangers become ground zero for baseball's steroids scandal?
  Mike Shropshire Feb. 18, 2009
  
• King NBA What's with the overpraise for pro basketball commissioner David Stern?
  Tommy Craggs Feb. 13, 2009
  
• Alex Rodriguez, Fallen Hero?  Nobody liked him before the steroids, nobody likes him now.
  Tim Marchman Feb. 8, 2009
  
• The QB That Saved Pittsburgh Ben Roethlisberger leads the Steelers to an amazing comeback win in Super Bowl XLIII.
  Robert Weintraub Feb. 2, 2009
  
• Flipping Awful Why the NFL should replace the overtime coin toss with an auction system.
  Tim Harford 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?
  Josh Levin Jan. 26, 2009
  
• Razing Arizona The Cardinals' presence in the Super Bowl is fluky and disgraceful.
  Charles P. Pierce Jan. 26, 2009
  
• Fictional Moldovan Soccer Phenom Tells All Inside the ingenious hoax that fooled the British sports press.
  Brian Phillips Jan. 23, 2009
  
• How the Philadelphia Eagles Saved Their Season They did absolutely nothing.
  Tom Scocca Jan. 15, 2009
  
• Boycott the BCS! A statistical analyst takes a stand against college football's perverse, irrational Bowl Championship Series.
  Bill James Jan. 7, 2009