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