With marijuana legalization on the horizon in Canada, Pacific Standard catches up with Ross Rebagliati, Olympic athlete and prohibition poster boy from the ’90s.
A new study says it belongs to Barry Bonds, but probably not for the reason you think.
How National Hockey League officials deal with deafening crowds, tough players, and big moments. A Q&A with veteran NHL linesman Scott Driscoll.
What does fandom look like in the home city of Canada’s only Major League Baseball team?
The unionization movement, social media bans, and the disempowerment of student-athletes.
How attempting the improbable, and chasing the past, led one man to find a community—and himself.
“Brown Is the New Green”—unless you’ve got deep pockets.
How one alternative sport is helping further gender equality, in athletics and beyond.
Just because several studies have failed to find any significant benefits to using Kinesio Tape doesn’t mean it can’t still be effective.
Shannon Miller is out a job, but the reason why is not yet clear.
Stories about athletes with flawed character are endless, but what about those who exceed our expectations?
A new study explores how newspapers and social media framed a historic first.
Could platforms like The Players’ Tribune usher in a new age of activism among athletes? The answer is up to us.
By choice or by circumstance, exiting sport is inevitable. What happens after is less certain.
To cheer for a team, or a sport, is to become part of a larger social phenomenon. Food is another—important—part of that shared identity.
Athletes, the media, and marijuana: On organizational authority and racial framing in sport.
What if we eliminated the institution of sport—from the high school level to the pros? Ten academics from around the country weigh in.
The shifting relationship of sport as a cultural signifier.
This introductory column is the first in a new running series, where each week a current event in sports will be examined from a sociocultural perspective.
Sam Riches went looking for solitude in nature, hoping to find his Jack London moment—but after half a year, he came back with a slightly different conclusion: self-reliance is overrated.
Why do some of the greatest basketball players ever struggle with an uncontested shot from just 15 feet away?
As one of the only female coaches in all of the four major professional sports, Barb Underhill is carving out an important legacy, both on and off the ice.
For every Michael Jordan, there's at least one Keon Clark. Or an Allen Iverson. Or a Junior Seau. The machinery of professional sports churns through its athletes and spits them out on the other side.
Sam Riches went to the Canadian competitive laughing championship. He met a 103-year-old man, a one-eyed person named Eyeborg, and a bunch of people trying to elevate the pursuit of joy into a sport.