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• Undefeated, Unloved, Undaunted The Patriots are great. Deal with it.
  Charles P. Pierce Dec. 31, 2007
  
• The Steroids Social Network An interactive feature on the Mitchell report.
  Chris Wilson Dec. 21, 2007
  
• Mitchellball How the steroids report changes the Moneyball story.
  Tom Scocca Dec. 14, 2007
  
• Michael Vick, 2010 MVP? Evaluating the chances of the quarterback making an NFL comeback.
  Peter Keating Dec. 11, 2007
  
• How To Beat the Patriots An eight-step guide to taking down the NFL's best team.
  Robert Weintraub Dec. 7, 2007
  
• Still a Bunch of Losers Another round of defeats confirms it: There are no champions in college football this year.
  Josh Levin Dec. 3, 2007
  
• What a Bunch of Losers The case for canceling college football's national title game.
  Josh Levin Nov. 29, 2007
  
• YouBet The wonders and dangers of online sports wagering.
  T.D. Thornton Nov. 28, 2007
  
• A-Robot How the best player in baseball went from android to human being.
  Bryan Curtis Nov. 21, 2007
  
• The NFL Outsmarts Itself Why pro football needs to get back to basics.
  Robert Weintraub Nov. 16, 2007
  
• NFL Armageddon A Colts fan and a Pats fan dissect every angle of Sunday's big game.
  Brendan I. Koerner Nov. 2, 2007
  
• What's Wrong With Sports Illustrated And how to fix it.
  Josh Levin Oct. 31, 2007
  
• The Red Sox Win Again And it feels great, thanks for asking.
  Charles P. Pierce Oct. 29, 2007
  
• A Night at the World Series The scene at Fenway Park as the Red Sox beat the Rockies.
  John Swansburg Oct. 26, 2007
  
• The Worst Football Coach in the Universe Introducing Notre Dame's Charlie Weis.
  Jonathan Chait Oct. 25, 2007
  
• Defense Rocks! How Colorado's fielding wizardry will change baseball forever.
  Eriq Gardner Oct. 24, 2007
  
• Manny Ramirez, as Himself How Boston's amazing left fielder led the Red Sox to another World Series.
  Charles P. Pierce Oct. 22, 2007
  
• ESPN the Newsmagazine The Worldwide Leader's new 60 Minutes wannabe E:60, reviewed.
  Robert Weintraub Oct. 17, 2007
  
• The Bulls Are No. 2! My South Florida Bulls. They're a college football team. Yes, South Florida is a real school.
  Jamie Allen Oct. 17, 2007
  
• Game of a Lifetime LSU, Florida, and why college football memories never fade.
  Josh Levin Oct. 12, 2007
  
• The Borowski Ultimatum The Indians are four wins away from the World Series. Do they have the guts to dump their closer?
  Chris Park Oct. 11, 2007
  
• Ding Dong, the Yankees Are Dead Not so fast.
  Mark Lamster Oct. 9, 2007
  
• My Plan To Save Hockey The NHL should be more like pro soccer. No, I'm not crazy.
  Nate DiMeo Oct. 5, 2007
  
• Cocktail Chatter: Baseball Playoffs Edition How to fake your way through the 2007 postseason.
  Justin Peters Oct. 2, 2007
  
• World's Fastest Sham Asafa Powell just set the world record in the 100 meters. Big whoop.
  Ted McClelland Sept. 28, 2007
  
• That's Horseshit Why you can't give your Thoroughbred an obscene name.
  T.D. Thornton Sept. 26, 2007
  
• Win One for the Cheater Why the enraged Patriots will go undefeated.
  Charles P. Pierce Sept. 17, 2007
  
• Sex Scandals, Stadium Sponsors, and National TV Just three of the reasons to boycott big-time high-school football.
  Robert Andrew Powell Sept. 14, 2007
  
• Most Valuable Position What's more important, a running back or a center? A safety or a cornerback?
  Robert Weintraub Sept. 12, 2007
  
• How To Watch Pro Football The NFL's perplexing refusal to help fans understand the game.
  Aaron Schatz Sept. 4, 2007
  
• Tiger Stadium Must Go! Why it's time for Detroit to tear down its classic ballpark.
  Peter Hyman Aug. 31, 2007
  
• The Lunatic's Guide to College Football Crawling fan message boards for trash talk, insider knowledge, and photos of Darren McFadden's car.
  Justin Peters Aug. 29, 2007
  
• NFL Confidential How a one-man Web site became the best source for pro football news.
  Robert Weintraub Aug. 23, 2007
  
• Baseball's Particle Accelerator The new technology that will change statistical analysis forever.
  Nate DiMeo Aug. 15, 2007
  
• What if Sports Allowed Doping? Readers weigh in on Slate's thought experiment.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 13, 2007
  
• What if Doping Were Legal? A Slate thought experiment.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 6, 2007
  
• "If She's an Ugly Bowler, You Are Going To Be Disappointed" Parsing the increasingly bizarre sayings of Ichiro Suzuki.
  Sasha Issenberg Aug. 1, 2007
  
• Still Doping After All These Years With so much scrutiny on the Tour de France, why are cyclists still cheating?
  Nathaniel Vinton July 27, 2007
  
• Female Weightlifters, Spanish Basketball Stars, and Kim Jong-il The strange world of Chinese sneaker endorsements.
  Jacob Leibenluft July 25, 2007
  
• If the Ref Did It, Here's How It Happened Plus, what the NBA should do about it.
  Robert Weintraub July 23, 2007
  
• Hammering on Hank How the media abuse baseball's home run king.
  Tommy Craggs July 20, 2007
  
• Funk and Homicide The sloppy, bizarre, freewheeling, wonderful NBA summer league.
  David Roth July 17, 2007
  
• You're Outta Here! Why Bobby Cox doesn't deserve baseball's all-time ejection record.
  Tim Murphy July 10, 2007
  
• Dog Bites Man The past and future of competitive eating injuries, from death by cheese to the dreaded ruptured stomach.
  Jason Fagone July 3, 2007
  
• Cycling's Biggest Dopes A reader's guide to the new Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis books.
  Bill Gifford July 2, 2007
  
• Kobe and KG What would happen if the NBA's two most intriguing players ended up on the same team?
  Paul Shirley June 26, 2007
  
• Homely and Away The U.S. soccer team's growing uniform crisis.
  Michael J. Agovino June 18, 2007
  
• The Junior League Is Earnhardt's big move good for NASCAR?
  John Swansburg June 14, 2007
  
• The Spurs' Secret Weapon R.C. Buford is the NBA's best general manager. Plus: Why does every other GM stink?
  Robert Weintraub June 7, 2007
  
• Fresh Air LeBron James is looking more and more like Michael Jordan, on and off the court.
  Charles P. Pierce June 5, 2007
  
• My Overactive Fantasy Life What happens when you love your fantasy baseball team a little too much.
  David Roth May 30, 2007
  
• The Incredible Shrinking Basketball Players How to make it as a hoops star in the Philippines. Step one: Get shorter.
  Rafe Bartholomew May 21, 2007
  
• The NBA Playoffs Imagining life as a Spanish basketball star.
  Neal Pollack May 16, 2007
  
• Dismal Rocket Science Crunch the numbers: Roger Clemens might be worth every penny.
  Jordan Ellenberg May 15, 2007
  
• Cocktail Chatter: NBA Playoffs Edition How to fake your way through the postseason.
  Justin Peters May 8, 2007
  
• The Best Damn Sports Show, Period The greatness of HBO's boxing documentary De La Hoya/Mayweather 24/7.
  Robert Weintraub May 3, 2007
  
• How To Watch the NBA Playoffs Want to skip the first half? Then don't bother watching the rest of the game.
  Nathaniel Friedman April 27, 2007
  
• Move Over, Moneyball Stat nerds are out! Biomechanics nerds are in!
  Seth Stevenson April 24, 2007
  
• All-You-Can-Eat Baseball I gorged myself at Dodger Stadium and lived to tell about it. Barely.
  Neal Pollack April 18, 2007
  
• Horse Racing's Plastic Surgery How a synthetic track surface will change the Sport of Kings forever.
  Ted McClelland April 12, 2007
  
• Winning Isn't Everything My Baltimore Orioles could be playoff contenders, and I don't like it.
  Tom Scocca April 10, 2007
  
• Below the Hole The Masters' underground technology fetish.
  Andrew Tolve April 4, 2007
  
• The Ring Two How the Florida Gators repeated as NCAA Tournament champs.
  Robert Weintraub April 3, 2007
  
• We Are the Anti-Champions! The biggest losers of the NCAA Tournament.
  Sam Eifling March 30, 2007
  
• The World's Most Dangerous Basketball Team How the Georgetown Hoyas changed college basketball.
  Mike DeBonis March 29, 2007
  
• Cricket's Sticky Wicket Tea, crumpets, doping, match-fixing, and murder.
  Alex Massie March 27, 2007
  
• The NCAA Tournament Why March Madness makes me feel like a lab rat.
  Bryan Curtis March 19, 2007
  
• Teams We Hate Duke, Eastern Kentucky, and 11 other odious schools in this year's NCAA Tournament.
  Bryan Curtis March 14, 2007
  
• The Death of the Bracketmaster A fond farewell to the ink-stained wretch who used to run your NCAA pool.
  Dan Kois March 12, 2007
  
• Eight Feet High and Rising Is Sun Ming Ming too tall to play basketball?
  Josh Levin Feb. 28, 2007
  
• The Loneliness of the Gay Basketball Player John Amaechi's Man in the Middle, the memoir of an NBA misfit.
  Kevin Arnovitz Feb. 16, 2007
  
• Juventus Delinquents Why Italian soccer can't be saved.
  Robert Weintraub Feb. 13, 2007
  
• Kevin Durant How the NBA could screw up college basketball's best player.
  Nathaniel Friedman Feb. 9, 2007
  
• Saturday's Night Peyton Manning won the MVP, but Indy's center won them the Super Bowl.
  Robert Weintraub Feb. 5, 2007
  
• Rain Manning The Colts' brilliant, nerdy, socially stunted quarterback.
  Tommy Craggs Feb. 1, 2007
  
• Joe Buck and Jim Nantz Sportscasters or corporate shills?
  Robert Weintraub Feb. 1, 2007
  
• The Saints Go Marching Home Plus, how the Colts finally beat the Patriots.
  Josh Levin Jan. 22, 2007
  
• Rorygate The NHL's All-Star voting disaster: a Slate investigation.
  Daniel Engber Jan. 18, 2007
  
• The NFL Playoffs Breaking down the Bears and Saints.
  Brendan I. Koerner Jan. 17, 2007
  
• Enemy of the States Why David Beckham is bad for American soccer.
  Robert Weintraub Jan. 12, 2007
  
• The NFL Playoffs I am ready for some football.
  Chris Suellentrop Jan. 10, 2007
  
• Urban Renewal The Florida Gators and their genius coach maul Ohio State.
  Robert Weintraub Jan. 9, 2007
  
• A Center Shall Lead Them Want to know who's going to the Super Bowl? Look to the middle of the offensive line.
  Robert Weintraub Jan. 4, 2007
  
• Boise Fallout The Fiesta Bowl shows that college football is more innovative than the NFL.
  Josh Levin Jan. 3, 2007