Jemele Hill
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Emilee Chinn / Getty Gymnastics Doesn’t Know What to Do With Simone Biles’s Dominance
Her greatness is a form of resistance.
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USA TODAY Sports Naomi Osaka Is Part of a Larger War Within Sports
The tennis star’s fight with the French Open is a disagreement over who should make the rules—and how much power athletes have to protect themselves.
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Mark J. Terrill / AP Photo Athletes Will Never Be Quiet Again
A year of activism after George Floyd’s murder reframed the role of sports in American public life.
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Getty / The Atlantic Move the All-Star Game Out of Georgia
Major League Baseball can get the attention of conservative politicians who are indifferent to civil rights.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic Conservative Donors Have Their Own Cancel Culture
University of Texas athletes have pushed their school to disavow its past. Wealthy alumni have other ideas.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic America Didn’t Need Sports After All
The public’s emotional connection to big-money athletics has been grossly overestimated.
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Christian Petersen / Getty The Problem With Mandatory Patriotism in Sports
Amid renewed attention to inequity in American life, pro leagues shouldn’t strong-arm teams into playing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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Max Sansing Curt Flood Belongs in the Hall of Fame
His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.
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Robin Alam / Icon Sportswire / Getty ‘Some Team Has to Want Me’
The NFL has pledged to address racism, but team owners still won’t put Black coaches in charge.
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Stephen Gosling / NBAE / Getty The WNBA Can’t Keep Kelly Loeffler Around
The defeated senator and Atlanta Dream co-owner is too far out of sync with the league’s values.
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Jim McIsaac / Getty / The Atlantic Denial Isn’t Working Out for College Football
The coronavirus keeps infecting players and disrupting game schedules, but schools are acting as if the pandemic isn’t happening.
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Mike Ehrmann / Getty Trump Attacked Black Athletes—And Paid for It in the End
LeBron James and other players mobilized to oust the president, and it worked.
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Daniel Acker / The New York Times / … She Did It
Despite the barriers, despite the pain, Kamala Harris becomes the first woman, the first Asian American, and the first Black American to be elected vice president.
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Justin Sullivan / Reuters Kamala Harris Claims Her Power
The senator from California leaves no doubt that she belongs on the national stage.
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Michael B. Thomas / Getty Stop Calling Breonna Taylor’s Killing a ‘Tragedy’
Casting deaths like hers as unavoidable accidents shifts blame to Black people and undermines the cause of reform.
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Rick Loomis / The New York Times / … For the Big Ten, the Money Was Just Too Tempting
College presidents have made peace with the risks of playing during the pandemic.
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David Dow / NBAE / Getty NBA Players Put America on Notice
They want to protect Black lives, and threatening an industry’s money and the public’s entertainment was the only option left.
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Mitchell Leff / Getty Pro Baseball Is Courting Disaster
Financially motivated wishful thinking has collided with reality.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Anti-Semitism We Didn’t See
DeSean Jackson’s Hitler moment—and mine—showed that Black Americans’ experience of racism doesn’t automatically sensitize us toward other forms of prejudice.
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Getty / The Atlantic The NFL Can’t Fight Racism When Owners Support Trump
The league’s rhetoric conflicts with plutocrats’ political commitments.
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