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		<title>Viewpoint: Make Kids Referee Their Own Sports Games</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/08/viewpoint-make-kids-referee-their-own-sports-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 09:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Christakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s often said that team sports serve as a proxy for actual violence. But last week, the metaphor became tragically real when soccer referee, Ricardo Portillo, died a week after receiving a punch to the face from an enraged 17 year-old who had just been issued a “yellow card” warning from the referee. The student now faces possible murder charges. We’ve grown accustomed to violent assaults at kids’ sporting events perpetrated by parents, coaches, players, and other spectators. Scenes like this pile-on from a crowd of parents at a Texas Pee-Wee football game have become a staple of local news reports and YouTube. According to Barry Mano, the president of the National Association of Sports Officials, assaults against referees in youth sport leagues have become increasingly common. (MORE: Little League&#8217;s Big Headaches: Helicopter Coaches) But there might be a way to reduce these explosive episodes at school sporting events: give high school players themselves, not referees, more responsibility for the game. One team sport that seems immune to the brawls and attacks is the increasingly popular Ultimate (formerly Ultimate Frisbee). Played with a flying disk, and containing elements of football, rugby, and soccer, Ultimate is known for its commitment to fair play and “spirit of the game.” A key feature is self-officiating: there are no referees to keep score or make on-the-fly calls and players share collective ownership of the way the game is played. This shift in responsibility has benefits beyond reducing violent incidents. By removing the third party arbiter, players in this fast-paced, athletically demanding game learn quickly how to work together to avoid unnecessary conflicts that will affect everyone’s wellbeing. It’s not that Ultimate players lack the will to win. But because players have to look at each other face to face when there is a potential dispute, and not turn to a neutral (and often nameless) authority figure, both sides have a powerful incentive to play fairly and keep tempers under control: Just like the Cold War days of mutually assured destruction, Ultimate teams know that what goes around comes around. That awareness<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=32185&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Player&#8217;s Viewpoint on Jason Collins: Sport Isn&#8217;t About Machismo</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/30/what-jason-collinss-coming-out-affirms-about-sport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Glanville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cliché about sport is that it defines manhood through a lens of machismo, no matter how many girls, women or men who don&#8217;t fit in a &#8220;turbo male&#8221; box excel on the playing fields, courts and swimming pools around the world. For some men, sport still contains a stage where we can display our virility and quantify how our masculinity ranks. After free agent NBA player Jason Collins shared with the world that he is gay, this construct shakes at its foundation. And maybe breaking it down once and for all is a way we can see more of sport&#8217;s true merits. Collins has always been present but not overtly showy. As his former head coach, Lawrence Frank explains, “He always understood his role as a basketball player. He is the king of intangibles where nothing he does shows up on a stat sheet.” Besides leading the NBA one year in the “tough-guy” category of committing the most personal fouls (322), he has always been willing to put his body on the line. He has voluntarily taken charges, accepting his need to be collateral damage to play strong defense or set screens so that the shooter could get his shot off. (MORE: Victory: NFL Punter Chris Kluwe, Gay Rights Advocate, Cheers Jason Collins For Coming Out) You would have to look deep into the stat sheet to find “screen-assists” or “charges taken.” And maybe the invisible ink you must scratch over to find him reflects his internal battle about coming out publicly. He has always been under the radar to those that set up fantasy drafts or those who choose who will be on the front of the media guide. Given that the default tone in a professional sports locker room revolves around the macho, he probably got plenty of messages that he could not be front and center. He could not be the scorer in this regard, so he had to set picks, take the hard road and the hard foul. Well, Collins is done waiting and setting picks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31875&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should College Sports Be Banned?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/26/should-college-sports-be-banned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noliwe M. Rooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correction appended: April 29, 2013 Spelman College, a historically black women’s college in Atlanta recently announced that it would eliminate its athletic department, disband all sports teams and withdraw from the NCAA. It plans to reallocate the roughly $900,000 in savings — from an overall operating budget of roughly $100 million — toward a wellness initiative that will emphasize fitness and focus on activities like golf, swimming, tennis, yoga and Pilates. Spelman’s president, Beverly Daniel Tatum, said she believed that it was more important to focus on the health of the entire campus than to use those funds to support Spelman&#8217;s 80 student athletes who qualified for NCAA funding. I applaud the efforts of Spelman, my alma mater, to improve the health of America&#8217;s youth and especially black women, many of whom are more prone to diseases that are helped by exercise — such as diabetes and high blood pressure — than are other groups. But I worry that the decision might be used to strengthen calls to reduce — or fully cut — Title IX funding, the 1972 federal legislation mandating equal access for women in education, including sports. Despite overwhelming public support for the policy and volumes of data attesting to its positive impact for women, naysayers still abound. (MORE: Do Black Women Really Want to Be Fat?) For example, a 2012 article in the Atlantic blamed Title IX for everything from ACL injuries to eating disorders and sexual abuse by coaches. And last June, a writer for U.S. News and World Report wrote a column titled &#8220;Title IX&#8217;s Dark Legacy&#8221; that argued that the policy was pitting men and women against each other and ultimately ruining men&#8217;s sports. But what&#8217;s particularly interesting about Spelman&#8217;s choice is that the relatively paltry amount it is saving highlights the fact that far more money is consistently spent on collegiate men&#8217;s sports than on women&#8217;s. According to a report released earlier this year by Donna Desrochers, a principal researcher for the Delta Cost Project at the American Institutes for Research, between 2005 and 2010,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31767&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spying on Sports Fans: What the Tech Can See</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/14/what-the-tech-can-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Super Bowl of Video Games. Literally.</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/30/the-super-bowl-of-video-games-literally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Football is mired in the past, with its cheerleaders, roman numerals and human beings physically moving. Now that vigorous scientific study is shocking Americans with data showing you can get hurt playing football, America’s sport is likely to change. The Super Bowl will soon seem an antiquated as going to a stadium to see Christians versus lions — which, I believe was the matchup of Super Bowl III. This change is happening so rapidly that I predict, in perhaps just a decade or two, fewer teenage boys will play football than sit at home playing videogames. (MORE: What If There Was No Super Bowl?) This shift to more sedate sports really opens a lot of opportunity for me. I’m such a bad athlete that my college friends stopped asking me to come to help coach the Little League team we had volunteered to help. But I can totally be a videogame coach. Even at the highest level: The Madden Bowl. In its 19th year, the Madden Bowl gives actual football players tiny controllers and lets them compete three days before Super Bowl Sunday, in front of a crowd at The Bud Light Hotel in New Orleans, followed by performances by Big Boi and Lil Wayne. The Bud Light Hotel is just a normal hotel that, for one week, I’m guessing, is specially rejiggered to smell horrible. (LIST: Top 10 Siblings in Sports) I volunteered to coach Houston Texan running back Arian Foster. (Drew Brees, Mark Ingram, Jimmy  Graham, Victor Cruz and others are also competing this year.) Since I haven’t played videogames for a decade, I figured I should get some tips before I started my coaching. I called Zach Farley, 26, a professional Madden player who makes his money in tournaments and from co-authoring the yearly Official Madden Players Guide. He and his co-author, Stephen Gibbons, played the game nearly constantly at Westfield State College. “We had the time in college,” Farley told me. “That’s the beauty of the education thing: You find out what you like.” Farley said that,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27911&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: What Everyone&#8217;s Getting Wrong About Special-Ed Sports</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/29/viewpoint-what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-special-ed-sports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew J. Rotherham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I heard last week that the U.S. Department of Education was releasing new guidelines about what schools must do to provide access to school sports for disabled students, I was in Charlottesville, Va., watching the University of Virginia’s women’s basketball team throttle Boston College. And in a nice bit of coincidence, the halftime show for that game was an exhibition match of adult wheelchair basketball. Conservative pundits fearing federal overreach claim that President Obama is inventing a right to wheelchair basketball, that he&#8217;s forcing schools to start up such teams. He’s not. But the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is doing something important, and hopefully it will prod more schools to give more students a way to participate in sports. (MORE: For Disabled Athletes, A Right To Compete in School?) Here’s the back story: In 1973 Congress passed the Rehabilitation Act, which protects the rights of disabled students in schools and is the underpinning of today’s special-education programs. Included in its many provisions is one that requires equal opportunity for participation in extracurricular activities. Schools haven’t always met that obligation, and one reason for this, according to a 2010 report by the Government Accountability Office, is that administrators are confused about what the guidelines expect schools and districts to do. The report also found that special-education students were less likely to participate in sports. (This may seem obvious on its face, but it’s important to note that most students in special education do not have severe physical or mental challenges.) So now, some two years later — this is the government, after all — the Education Department is providing some clarity. In other words, these are not new requirements or mandates, but rather an explanation of existing law and policy. (MORE: Viewpoint: The Presidential Election Compromised Education Reform) Most of it is common sense. Sports teams are competitive entrance activities, and skill matters most in decisions about who gets to play; nothing in the law changes that. But the guidance clarifies that schools can — and should —<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27857&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Lance Armstrong Will Be Back</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/21/viewpoint-lance-armstrong-will-be-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Eustice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone expecting a tearful Lance Armstrong to gaze into the camera and beg forgiveness for a lifetime of deceit, after having given up all of the names and details of the how and why of his successes, was certain to have been disappointed by the Oprah interviews. It was classic Lance: stubbornly proud, controlling and calculating. But given who he is, a man who has spent a lifetime constructing an impenetrable protective shell around him, it represented a massive effort on his part and was a pretty good first step towards rehabilitating his public and personal lives both now lying in tatters. (MORE: How Lance Armstrong Came Clean to Oprah) Lance lost. He lost the game that USADA finally won after a protracted and bloody battle, and, as Lance said in the interview, being deeply afraid of losing has always been his driving force. This loss represents a complete change, something he has never experienced in a lifetime of winning almost every fight both big and small. He now has to come to terms with what losing, and losing big, means, and accept the fear that has landed on his doorstep. That is not going to happen overnight and certainly not in one session with Oprah. (MORE: Lance Armstrong&#8217;s Confession and the Psychology of Elite Athletes) The interview provided a fascinating insight into the mind of a professional athlete, one who had achieved the ultimate goal of turning himself into a brand. Lance’s parsing of the definition of cheating was a look into the secret life of a pro and how they can rationalize using every possible legal and illegal advantage to perform at the levels the public and sponsors expect and demand. As he swung back and forth from saying  “I” and “we”, was it the man or the brand speaking? &#8220;To be honest, Oprah, we sued so many people I don&#8217;t even [know]. I&#8217;m sure we did.” &#8220;Emma O&#8217;Reilly [Armstrong's former employee who he called an "alcoholic prostitute" after she blew the whistle on his doping] is one<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27598&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Sports Players Control Their Own Bodies?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/07/do-sports-players-control-their-own-bodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Glanville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Redskins star quarterback Robert Griffin III is defending his decision to play on a hurt knee in yesterday&#8217;s playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks. &#8221;Many may question, criticize &#38; think they have all the right answers. But few have been in the line of fire in battle,&#8221; Griffin tweeted, and he&#8217;s right: An athlete should be able to decide if he wants to play hurt, certainly when he has access to information to make that decision an informed one, as was the case with RG3. He had a knee injury (sprained LCL) that was at risk to get worse (and it did,) but it was not a life threatening situation. People go against doctor&#8217;s orders all the time. An injury is the team&#8217;s liability but it&#8217;s our body and we can control it. (MORE: Did the Washington Redskins Risk LG3&#8242;s Health?) I learned this lesson for the first time in my minor league baseball career. I was sick and was running a fairly high fever when I woke up at the team hotel. I thought there was no point in going to the stadium so I called in sick. They told me I needed to come in and not only did they evaluate me and let me rest in the training room, but I ended up playing that day. I was not unhappy with that decision, and from then on, I did everything in my power to be informed about illness and decided that if I wasn&#8217;t in the hospital, I would play. Sure, the Redskins lost, which makes his choice look questionable in hindsight. Yet if he hobbled around like Michael Jordan or John Elway or Derek Jeter and won while carrying his team on his back even when his back was broken, few would be questioning his decision.  Greatness plays with serious injury as much as it toys with its opponents, and RG3 had earned the right to see if he could meet that challenge. You never know unless you put yourself out there. (MORE: Are Sports Fans<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27220&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Sports Fans Really Out of Control?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/10/10/are-sports-fans-reallyout-of-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Glanville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life & Style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlanta Braves]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports fans in America may need a p.r. campaign. Last week, in a frenzied fit of disapproval over an umpire&#8217;s call, Atlanta Braves fans dangerously hurled bottles and cans onto the field. Then Kansas City fans booed their own resident quarterback, Matt Cassel, while he lay unconscious after he took a rattling duo of hits that put him in that position. (MORE: Cheers for Matt Cassell&#8217;s Concussion: Why Sports Fans Applaud Injury) Yes, these moments are not displaying mankind at its best. As a player, I certainly did not like being booed, and I heard my share. The most extreme case was when I misread a ball hit my way in centerfield in the last inning of one game and ruined the rare and special chance for all in attendance to see a no-hitter. After a pitch whizzed by my head in my next turn at bat, my home fans cheered profusely. But even so, it did not take away the vast majority of the other 1,000 games where I felt they were in my corner. (MORE: Baseball is Never Perfect) Every year there are outrageous incidents of fan bad behavior. Yet when we focus on specific moments, we lose sight of the positive impact fans have had even in the same season. When Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers earned the first Triple Crown in 45 years, Royals fans (yes, also from Kansas City) cheered him like he was their own. Or the leaguewide support for A&#8217;s pitcher Brandon McCarthy during his recovery from getting hit in the head by a line drive. Most fans not only want their teams to do well but are compassionate for the team&#8217;s individual players and those that compete against them. (MORE: A Player&#8217;s Perspective on Fantasy Baseball) Fans can be tough. They always have been tough, but to say they are worse today than when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in the 1940s and feared for his is a bit of a stretch. In the speed of today&#8217;s world, results are sought instantaneously;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=23567&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lance Armstrong’s Fall from Grace Tests Livestrong’s Strength</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/28/lance-armstrongs-fall-from-grace-tests-livestrongs-strength/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Glanville</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are the greatest athlete in your sport and one of the most visible figures in the worldwide fight against cancer, you have a lot to protect. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is used to staying ahead of the pack, but persistent allegations of doping — what the cyclist has called an “unconstitutional witch hunt” against him by the United States Anti-Doping Agency — have finally forced him to the side of the road. &#8220;I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999,&#8221; he said in a statement released Friday. &#8220;The toll this has taken on my family and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today — finished with this nonsense.&#8221; For choosing not to contest the charges, the USADA has slapped Armstrong with a lifetime ban from the sport and has revoked his Tour de France titles. But while he says he&#8217;s moving past the verdict and that he &#8220;will no longer address this issue, regardless of the circumstances,&#8221; Armstrong&#8217;s troubles may not be over. The USADA reportedly has a plethora of witnesses and evidence lined up ready to outline his alleged use of a variety of performance-enhancing drugs, including data they say points to illicit blood doping during his 2009 comeback. And while Armstrong and his supporters have vehemently spoken out against USADA for the singlemindedness with which they&#8217;ve persecuted him, that doesn&#8217;t mean that their alleged evidence won&#8217;t prove damaging if — or more likely when — it ever comes out. (MORE: Lance Armstrong: Was He Doping or Experimenting with Science?) Armstrong is at the untenable position that is reached when the alleged evidence against an athlete, regardless of the truth behind it, has hit critical mass. And as history shows, athletes who have gotten used to his kind of dominance and longevity usually fight to the bitter end. Roger Clemens was called to a Congressional hearing to discuss his alleged steroid use, and his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=21437&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lance Armstrong: Was He Doping or Experimenting with Science?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/27/lance-armstrong-was-he-doping-or-experimenting-with-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Eustice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lance Armstrong is a great champion. There is no question. The first time I met him in 1991, you could see that the kid had it all: ruthlessness, enormous power and a savage desire to win that was almost frightening in its intensity. All that, and he was always ready with a sound bite. Armstrong was the complete package. And two years later, at age 21, he became the youngest rider in modern history to become the world professional road champion. We all know the rest of the story. After his bout with cancer in 1996, his recovery and subsequent metamorphosis into a lethal, streamlined Tour de France contender was stunning — as was the new laser-beam focus that earned him the nickname RoboCop in the peloton. The rest of the pros never had a chance. So now that he has been stripped of his seven Tour de France wins and banned from cycling for the rest of his life by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), we have to ask: Did Lance Armstrong really win all those titles, beat all those other cyclists, endure the unimaginable hardships of long-distance competition just because he’s a cheater? (MORE: How Lance Armstrong Lost His Seven Tour de France Titles) On a daily basis, professional athletes are pushed beyond previously imaginable limits. They are human science experiments. The image that the USADA paints of a pristine world of clean sport, tainted by a handful of rogue competitors and their mad-scientist pharmacological enablers, is pure fantasy. A pro&#8217;s job is to find the edge, and that edge comes through science — and often, through pushing that science to its limits. Very often those limits are a moving target. In 1997, the Union Cycliste Internationale ruled to limit racing cyclists&#8217; hematocrit level (the percentage of red blood cells vs. white, which is the fuel that drives endurance sport) to 50%. It was their first attempt at controlling the new science of blood manipulation, which was enabling racers to push themselves harder, longer. Of course, the only thing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=21375&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Riding on a Pony Tail? At the Olympics, A Lot</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/08/whats-in-a-pony-tail-at-the-olympics-a-lot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noliwe M. Rooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 London Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African American hair]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gabby Douglas made history by becoming the first American gymnast to win gold medals in both the team and individual all-around competitions, and the first black gymnast to win Olympic gold in the all-around. But the day after the she won her second medal, she discovered that a good bit of negative attention was being focused on her hair, which was described as messy and unkempt. A few days later, as the state of Gabby’s hair continued to be a trending topic on Twitter, Douglas’s mother said that these constant criticisms were impacting her daughter’s confidence before she had to once again compete on the uneven bars and the beam. Last night, Gabby lost focus and did poorly in both events, though it is impossible to know if “Hairgate” played a role or not. (MORE: How U.S. Gymnast Gabby Douglas Became the Olympic All-Around Champion) What has been lost in all this is the fact that she is being singled out for a look shared by the whole team. Yes, her hair was messy, but so too was McKayla Maroney’s, Aly Raisman’s and Kyla Ross’s. Indeed, with the exception of Jordan Wieber, who wears her hair in the more traditional highly groomed ponytail, McKayla and Kyla wear the intentionally messy pull-through ponies known as “slop knots.” Aly&#8217;s hair is longer and is in a very messy bun. When asked about the hairstyle, McKayla said that it was easier than pinning it up and that it showed team solidarity. Though not typically seen at the Olympics, their hairstyles are instantly familiar to any women with longer hair who finds herself in a goal-oriented situation; they get it out of the way easily so they can get down to business. However, with the exception of a few mentions of how low-glam the U.S. team looked compared to other teams, none of the other gymnasts have received notice. Why then all this negative focus on Gabby? The sad fact of the matter is, though many of us believe that hairstyles are merely a personal choice not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=20614&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Penn State Can Move Forward</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/07/31/how-penn-state-can-move-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Glanville</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Sandusky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NCAA has come down hard on Penn State — hitting them with a $60 million fine, reducing existing scholarships, and stripping the football program of Joe Paterno’s wins since 1998. Whether the punishment fits the crime is a matter of debate, but the only true opportunity that Penn State has in changing the past is with what it does in the future. It can rehabilitate itself as an institution by: 1. Redefining the locker room culture. Penn State could get ahead of the curve by creating a cultural shift away from the uninformed and &#8220;don&#8217;t really want to know&#8221; code that colors college sports. Silence would not be accepted in such a place nor would inaction. (MORE: Silence in the Locker Room) 2. Becoming a leader in awareness of abuse. Just as the NFL has found a way to now lead in concussion awareness and protocol, Penn State can be the beacon of how to identify, understand, and respond to abuse. Abuse is a tragically consistent part of our society and maybe it took a high profile athletic program to bring this fact to light. Now this high profile program can take this torch and illuminate new protocols, helping victims feel more at ease to speak out or prevent someone from becoming a victim in the first place. (MORE: Sandusky Verdict: Will Reporting Rates for Sex Abuse Improve?) 3. Having more transparency and accountability, especially within their community. No doubt, Penn State has a lot of goodwill from decades of their connection to the larger State College community. It should give that community more power, which will temper its sovereign status. Let the community be the judge of how their acts and works are effecting change. No one can heal the scars of those victims, nor is one institution wholly capable of repairing the damage it has done from policy, personnel, and blind eyes. But in its future, Penn State could create systems that can protect the vulnerable and live up to the responsibility that comes with great influence and power. Penn<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=20165&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball’s Hall of Fame Still Matters</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/07/19/why-baseballs-hall-of-fame-still-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Glanville</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barry Larkin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday, the 2012 Baseball Hall of Fame class will be inducted. The Hall of Fame has come under some critique lately from Bryant Gumbel, who is lobbying for the inclusion of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. This years inductees are Barry Larkin, long-time Cincinnati Reds star shortstop, and posthumously Ron Santo of the Chicago Cubs. Together, they span a wide swath of baseball history and are representative of a game with class. The Hall of Fame still embodies a gold standard. On major issues such as the doping scandals, people look to the Hall to mark the high road — and they did. It&#8217;s also those who subscribe to its standard, those who are fans of the game from its earliest days to today’s game, who keep it relevant. (MORE: Baseball Is Never Perfect) These fans know both Barry Larkin and Ron Santo, even when they framed very different eras. Larkin was an early inductee, not that many years out of uniform, one which always belonged to the Cincinnati Reds. He is also now in the consciousness of baseball as an analyst and color commentator for ESPN. Today’s fans know him as well as those who saw him come up in 1986, and Larkin, in his expansive spirit, has said that he’s going to have a party in Cincy for those who can’t make it to Cooperstown this weekend to share the celebration with the city. Then there is Ron Santo, who had a stellar career with the Cubs and afterwards was the ultimate cheerleader for his organization and the game. He called the Cubs games right up until his passing and never a moment did he waver from his loyalty. Fans from the earliest Cubs days to today fought passionately for “Ronnie” to be inducted in the Hall after he fell short in votes in the past. My time playing for the Cubs while he was the announcer only confirmed that he was a great ambassador and that the Hall would shine brighter with him in it. Larkin and Santo are more than great players;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=19624&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bias Against Sports Moms</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/07/11/the-bias-against-sports-moms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Stone Lombardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, how we love Olympic moms. Our fantasy version is personified in a popular series of ads produced by Proctor &#38; Gamble, an Olympic sponsor. A montage of mothers from around the world are shown waking their sleepy little ones, cooking them breakfast, getting them to practice, and then washing, washing, washing — both dishes and clothes. The children grow bigger, the moms keep scrubbing and laundering, and by the end, the young adult athletes are swimming, running, spiking volleyballs, and acknowledging their tear-stained, now middle-aged mothers in the Olympic stands. When the words, “The hardest job in the world is the best job in the world. Thank you, Mom,” fill the screen, I was just as misty-eyed as anyone else. But I also couldn’t help but wonder what Judy Murray would make of this stereotype of the sports mom. (MORE: 50 Olympic Athletes to Watch) Judy Murray is the mother of Andy Murray, the Scottish tennis player who lost to Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final last week and is now hoping for a gold medal at the Olympics in London later this month. Those who watched the Wimbledon match might have noticed how frequently the camera panned to Murray’s mother, her face often taut with tension as the competition unfolded. She has described the experience of watching her son play tennis as “a mixture of nausea and heart attack.” She is not only a fixture in the stands but also a lightening rod for criticism. Judy Murray gets hate mail. She is depicted as a domineering, smothering, controlling mom whose very presence is undermining her son’s game. Boris Becker, a former Wimbledon champion, publicly condemned her last year, saying, “I just question whether a young man needs to have his mother around all the time while he’s working.” A headline in the UK Daily Record summarized: “Andy Murray won’t win a Grand Slam until he stops being a mummy’s boy and cuts ties with Judy.” David Yeoman, a self-described “business and sport behavioral strategist” told a British paper that Murray should<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=19170&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Social Media Changing How Athletes Get Traded?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/27/is-social-media-changing-how-athletes-get-traded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Glanville</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[athlete trades]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Red Sox traded their popular third baseman, Kevin Youkilis, earlier this week. He had been fighting injuries and declining performance after being a key cog in bringing a couple of World Series titles to Boston. Unlike most trades, he knew it was coming—and so did his fans. Advance word had gotten out and spread through social media. As a result, his fans gave him a standing ovation at his last game. (MORE: Baseball Is Never Perfect) Certainly organizations have a right to be discreet when trading a player, but today&#8217;s social media means that the old-fashioned totally-under-wraps trade is becoming a thing of the past. In this case, the tweets allowed Boston fans to get a heads up that Youkilis was heading out the door, even before it was official. They could actually give him his due, pay their respects and thank him for his services. He got his curtain call. He may have even had time to pop some champagne and tour the city one last time, if he felt like it. When I was traded, I didn’t have time to pop anything except my jaw back in place. I was traded in 2003 from the Texas Rangers to the Chicago Cubs. I got a call from then Rangers general manager John Hart, and all I could do was focus on getting out of town. By the time I got over to the stadium to say goodbye to my teammates and coaches, all my equipment was packed away in a box. My locker was cleared out. No fans were waiting to bid me adieu. I was yesterday. MORE: A Player&#8217;s Perspective on Fantasy Baseball Today’s speed of information benefits the professional athlete. A player can give a heads-up to his family, get dinner with soon-to-be-former teammates, seek a final thought and conversation with a coach or trainer that nursed him back to health. He may not be happy about the move or the fans who wanted him out of town, but in the end, it&#8217;s a more humane way to treat<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=18461&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will There Ever Be Another Black America&#8217;s Team?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/14/nba-finals-is-this-the-end-of-black-americas-sport-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Touré</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Newcombe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another era not so long ago, the Miami Heat or the Oklahoma City Thunder might have become black America’s team. This is a phenomenon that arose from time to time when several aspects came together, like the sun and moon and earth in an eclipse. It would happen when a team had a significant black presence — such as one or several black players who many blacks respected or found unusually charismatic—and in some way were representative of black style, like Magic Johnson&#8217;s Lakers in the 1980s. (MORE: NBA Playoffs: Inside the Mind of Kevin Durant) The team also had to have a sense of swagger and maybe an air of defiance and a flair to the way they played that somehow translated into an embodiment of blackness, or some sort of racial or political dimension that made the team seem to symbolize something beyond sports. And black America’s teams had to appear dominant — they were squads that were widely expected to win, never plucky underdogs. There’s no official acknowledgement of this honor and it&#8217;s not something a team can seek to create; they just grab a special place in the black collective mind. (MORE: Magic Johnson Changed America Forever) Basketball has produced most of black America’s teams, but not all of them. I recall the Pittsburgh Pirates of the 70s, which won the 1971 and 1979 World Series, starring Willie “Pops” Stargell and Roberto Clemente, the first MLB team to field an all-black and brown starting lineup. (Clemente died in a plane crash in 1972, which endeared them all the more.) Their black-and-gold uniforms were cool and their theme song was Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family.” Breaking racial barriers usually puts a team in the black America’s team stratosphere. Jackie Robinson — along with pitcher Don Newcombe and catcher Roy Campanella — made the Brooklyn Dodgers into black America’s team because breaking the color barrier was a giant step in American history. At a time when baseball was America’s central sport, Robinson was like a forerunner of the Civil Rights Movement.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=17380&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Penn State Scandal: Will The Jury Convict Jerry Sandusky?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/11/penn-state-scandal-will-the-jury-convict-jerry-sandusky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Sandusky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Jerry Sandusky trial opens this week, many Americans seem to be asking the same question: when will it be over and when can this awful man&#8217;s long prison sentence start? This, of course, skips an important step – the trial itself. It may look like the prosecution has an open-and-shut case against Sandusky. But whatever the public is expecting, it is hardly a sure thing that the trial will end in a conviction. Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, is facing 52 counts of child sex abuse. He is charged with abusing 10 boys over 15 years, using a charity he founded, Second Mile, to meet his victims. The pattern he is accused of is a classic one in crimes of this sort: targeting children, &#8220;grooming&#8221; them with friendship and gifts, and then molesting them. (PHOTOS: Riots Rock Penn State After Firing of Paterno) Since the news of Sandusky&#8217;s indictment broke last fall, there has been no shortage of horrific stories and they have gotten big media play. One of the most disturbing came from Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant, who said that in 2001 he walked in on Sandusky showering with a boy who appeared to be about ten years old and engaging in what he was convinced was some kind of sexual activity. McQueary said he told Joe Paterno, Penn State&#8217;s legendary head coach, and other school officials but no one contacted law enforcement. Paterno died of lung cancer this past January. Sandusky added to his troubles with his own words, offered up in some poorly considered interviews. Talking with NBC&#8217;s Bob Costas, Sandusky said, among other things, &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t have showered with those kids.&#8221; (MORE: Child Abuse Prevention: Why Childism is Like Sexism and Racism) Prosecutors have one more important thing on their side: the number of alleged victims. The case is not a &#8220;He said, he said&#8221;—there are multiple accusers making similar accusations. But one problem they may have is that their case relies heavily on the testimony of those accusers, and lacks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=17144&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball Is Never Perfect</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/05/baseball-is-never-perfect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Glanville</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Beltran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday, the New York Mets threw their first organizational no-hitter on the arm of Johan Santana. It was not the prettiest or most efficient of no-hitters—he walked five batters and a ball that was hit fair by Carlos Beltran of the Cardinals, the opposing team, was called foul, causing even some of the most die-hard Mets fans to feel conflicted about the historic milestone. (MORE: Why One New York Mets Fan Jeered a No-Hitter) But what fans often forget is that baseball is never perfect. The shutout game, hitting for the cycle, the streak, the no-hitter—these moments are considered baseball divinity. Witnessing them puts you right in the thick of history. It makes the game special, but it does not make it perfect. Take Santana&#8217;s pitching. He wound up throwing 134 pitches and a whopping 57 of them were balls out of the strike zone. His lack of accuracy could have gotten many pitchers taken out in the 3rd inning let alone hanging around to complete a no-hitter. He bent but did not break, keeping everyone guessing until the end. In the eighth inning, his manager Terry Collins came out to talk things over with him, clearly concerned whether his pitch count was too high to safely have him finish this game. Collins rightfully had to think about having Santana for September, not for just this day, no matter how magical. (MORE: A Player&#8217;s Perspective on Fantasy Baseball) And just like players, the umpires do not embody the perfection we expect for such divine moments. They too have their flaws, as we found when in the 6th inning, third base umpire Adrian Johnson ruled a ball foul off of Beltran&#8217;s line drive that had kicked up chalk—making it technically fair. Does this mean baseball should usher in an era of instant replay, as has been suggested by new school advocates? No, and here is why. Baseball&#8217;s great milestones are riddled with imperfections, and what makes these moments worthy of timelessness is that they had all of the human elements at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=16813&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why LeBron Doesn&#8217;t Need To Win The Title</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, LeBron James split the nation with his public announcement that he would be taking his services to Miami. His hometown city of Cleveland became the jilted lover, and Miami, with an already talented duo in Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, would now be perennial contenders for the title. He left a place where he would get the ball every time in crucial situations to a place with other “game on the line” talent. Now locked in battle with Indiana for the conference semi-finals, James is still reeling from criticism for falling apart in last year&#8217;s finals against the Dallas Mavericks, which was re-ignited by a poor closing in Game 2 of this current series. To clear his name away from the “choke” label, it has been said that he has to make amends and win now. (MORE: Why Big Contracts Are Bad for a Player&#8217;s Legacy) There also seems to be a way he needs to win: he needs to be alone on the mountaintop carrying his team on his back to glory, as opposed to blending in the shadows of a team with star depth. He has already received demerits for attempting to accomplish winning by having teammates like Dwyane Wade that can share the spotlight and the burden. Titles take a team. Even though Jordan could have won without Pippen, he still won with Pippen and that speaks to Jordan’s ability to learn how to work with his teammates. That takes time and experience. Being head and shoulders above the rest is meaningless unless you master how to most effectively implement your dominance. You may even have to be greater to do so when there are many more egos and options in the room. (MORE: Jeremy Lin&#8217;s Streak: How His Faith Might Help) James is a great player. He has deservedly won the NBA&#8217;s MVP award for 2012. Just like many other great talents, like Shaq or Jordan, he may just have to wait for the right time for it all to gel. Will he rise<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=16123&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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