Social Justice Why the College Football Playoff Is Terrible But Better Than Before The sample size is still embarrassingly small, but at least there's less room for the availability cascade. Noah Davis
Social Justice Why Do Athletes Choke? Sometimes the pressure is just too much for the brain to handle. Danielle Elliot
Social Justice Why Can’t Anyone Break the Women’s Marathon Record? Paula Radcliffe set the world record in 2003. Since then? No one's come within three minutes of her mark. Noah Davis
Economics Sponsors: Coming to a Sports Jersey Near You And really, it's not that big of a deal. Noah Davis
Economics The Most Untouchable Man in Sports How the head of the governing body for the world's most popular sport freely wields his wildly incompetent power. Noah Davis
Social Justice Pulling Punches: Why Sports Leagues Treat Most Offenders With Leniency There’s a psychological explanation for the weak punishment given to Ray Rice before a video surfaced that made a re-evaluation unavoidable. Eric Horowitz
News in Brief Human Trafficking and the 2016 Super Bowl How the Bay Area is building America's most ambitious anti-trafficking coalition. Ted Scheinman
Books & Culture News in Brief Previous Site Sections Will Football and CTE Give Way to Futból and Do-Re-Mi? Phasing out football programs as we learn more about their damaging effects on the brain may benefit more than just our minds and bodies. Steve Swayne