March 2024 - More Than A Game

Formula E: Can This Race Car Save Joe Biden’s Presidency?

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March 31, 2024

Via Politico, a look at Formula E — the world’s only all-electric racing series — aims to do something never before attempted: Using sports to solve a major policy problem. On a bluebird day last summer at [...]

Masters of the Green: The Black Caddies of Augusta National

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March 31, 2024

Via Garden & Gun, a look at how - for almost fifty years - black caddies carried the bags of golf legends then, with one decision, their lives shifted, and the legacy of their glory days went unheralded. Finally, that’s [...]

I Was the Only Girl on My School’s Wrestling Team

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March 31, 2024

Via The Cut, a first-person reflection upon gender in high school sports: I joined my high school’s wrestling team on a dare. At a family gathering in October 2002, my cousin Peter, who attended a neighboring school in [...]

How MLB’s Baseball at Heart Brings the Game and Hope To Young Women in Uganda

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March 30, 2024

Via MLB.com, a report on how MLB's Baseball at Heart initiative is bringing the game and hope to young women in Uganda: The girls arrived to the field in whatever they had. Some came in dresses and others in bare feet. The [...]

Vinicius Junior Delivered His Strongest Message Yet Against Racism In Soccer

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March 28, 2024

Via The Athletic, a report on Vinicius Jr's efforts to battle racism in soccer: It was no ordinary day at Valdebebas, Real Madrid’s training ground on the outskirts of the Spanish capital. On Monday, 100 accredited [...]

‘Sport Is Never Just Sport’

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March 28, 2024

Via The Guardian, a report on a new Olympics exhibition in Paris that reflects the 20th century's highs and lows, putting previous games in context of conflicts and injustices: From the Nazi stadium propaganda in 1936 [...]

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