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Exploiting the Sherpas
BY BILLIE MANDELBAUM Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mt. Everest when they ascended the mountain on May 29, 1953. A Nepali folk song, later written to commemorate the successful ascent, describes the expedition: “Our Tenzing Sherpa climbed the highest mountain, pulling Hillary along.” Although Norgay, a…
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Remembering Jackie Robinson: Racial Equality in Sports
BY BENJAMIN COMPALL If Jackie Robinson were alive today, I wonder how he would feel about the current racial state of sports. Surely, as the first African American professional baseball player, he would feel great pride in seeing how far things have come. As Americans, we love these “first-ever” narratives- and Robinson’s holds a particularly…
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Private Spaces, Publicly Funded
BY ALEX LEICHENGER Over a decade ago, the St. Louis Rams were the “Greatest Show on Turf,” a high-scoring juggernaut that played in two Super Bowls and welcomed the new millennium with a thrilling championship conclusion (search Mike Jones tackle on YouTube). The Rams are now well on their way to an 11th consecutive season…
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An Old Pastime Perseveres
BY BENJAMIN SZANTON As with global temperatures or the cost of college, a graph of TV viewership of the World Series presents a consistently ominous trend over the past 20 years. This year’s Series, in which the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals to win their third championship in five years, was no…
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In Baseball We Trust
BY GRACE PORTELANCE Competitive markets and baseball are two things that are quintessentially American—though not everyone loves them, they occupy a huge cultural space in our society. However, these two cultural staples have historically been at odds – since the inception of anti-trust laws, baseball has enjoyed a strange and unique exemption. In fact, one…
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State of the Games
BY REUBEN SIEGMAN When most people think of the Olympics, they think of unity, togetherness, and a place where nations stand equal as competitors. However, these words can no longer be used to describe the Olympics. When Baron Pierre de Coubertin created the modern Olympic games, he envisioned an event that would help unite the…
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Collective Bargaining is Not a Spectator Sport
BY SAMUEL KLEIN Nobody likes a lockout. Not the fans, not the players, not the owners, and not the countless workers and members of the media who rely on professional athletic events taking place as scheduled. So why are there so many lockouts, and why do they last so long? The numbers stack up quickly.…
