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Michael Vick Comes to Phillynew

When the Eagles announced that they signed a one-year-on plus one-year-option contract with convicted animal abuser Michael Vick, networking boards lit up like pinball machines. But will Philadelphians make good on their love of animals? Or is the outrage a little too easy?

Philadelphia Weekly | Tara Murtha | 08-17-2009 | Sports

Tags: Philadelphia Eagles, football, NFL, animal issues, Michael Vick

I Don't Care About the Philliesnew

I am avidly not interested, so please, everyone, stop expecting me to give a shit just because I live in the local ZIP code.

Philadelphia Weekly | Caralyn Green | 10-27-2008 | Sports

Tags: sports, baseball, MLB, World Series, Philadelphia Phillies

The Phillies' So Taguchi has Lost His Waynew

But the slumping outfielder remains determined to find it.

Philadelphia Weekly | G.W. Miller III | 07-14-2008 | Sports

Tags: Philadelphia, Major League Baseball, baseball, MLB, Japan, National League, sports & fitness, Phillies, So Taguchi

Where Should the Focus of Olympic Protest Lie?new

The pre-emptive repression of political speech of Olympic athletes is mind boggling. The entire reason the Olympics are even in Beijing is political in nature -- an effort by the West to embrace China as a 21st-century economic and military superpower. So why shouldn't athletes be allowed to voice protest?

Philadelphia Weekly | Dave Zirin | 05-05-2008 | Sports

Tags: China, Olympics, protest, Beijing, sports & fitness

Shedding Light on the Olympic Torchnew

China wants the torch to travel through the nations of Western Europe and the United States as well as Tibet as a way to spread the gospel of China's global reach. The torch's 1936 route was also planned with political considerations in mind. The torch was carried exclusively through European areas where the Third Reich wanted to extend its reach: particularly southeastern and central regions.

Philadelphia Weekly | Dave Zirin | 04-22-2008 | Sports

Tags: China, Olympics, Tibet, Nazis, torch run, sports & fitness

The Brett Favre Archetype Remains a Restricted Clubnew

For many in and out of the press corps, Favre is the classic white American archetype: the flawed hero. This archetype is crack cocaine cut with catnip for a sports media blissed out on their own addiction to macho nostalgia.

Philadelphia Weekly | Dave Zirin | 03-24-2008 | Sports

Tags: sports & fitness

The Sons Also Risenew

Philly's most passionate sports fans are nuts about a team that doesn’t yet exist.

Philadelphia Weekly | Steven Wells | 03-17-2008 | Sports

Tags: sports & fitness

Specter Says Fandom Alone Fuels His NFL Investigationnew

It's never a good sign when people start to whisper that your company is pushing a dignified 78-year-old U.S. senator to butt heads with a popular sports institution. Welcome to the increasing scrutiny accompanying Comcast's relationship with Arlen Specter in his investigation of the NFL, known as Spygate.

Philadelphia Weekly | Staff | 03-10-2008 | Sports

Tags: NFL, sports & fitness

Washington Babblethonnew

A corrupt and ignorant Congress pontificates on steroids.

Philadelphia Weekly | Dave Zirin | 01-28-2008 | Sports

Tags: steroids, sports & fitness

Stephen Burbank, Penn Professor & NFL 'Special Master'new

For the past five years, whenever major controversies have arisen between the players' association and the league, Burbank has been called upon to act as the legal arbitrator. He handles a handful of cases every year, usually those involving large sums of money, the salary cap or free agency.

Philadelphia Weekly | G.W. Miller III | 12-10-2007 | Sports

Tags: sports & fitness