Addded Feb 25, 2025
Who’s Still Got Milk?
Cow’s milk has long been tied to sports-and to growing big and strong. But its consumption in the U.S. has been in decline for 70-plus years. Amid an increasingly crowded dairy section, can milk survive?
Addded Jul 7, 2022
Imagining Football’s Future Through the Super Bowl of 2066
At the first Super Bowl, ushers tore tickets. At Super Bowl 50, they scanned them. At Super Bowl 100, fans were retina-scanned on the way in.
Addded Feb 4, 2018
On the Vikings, Broken Hearts and Unfettered Joy
For Minnesotans near and far, the ending of Saints-Vikings was looking all too inevitable. But remember Ahmad Rashad, Tommy Kramer and Squadron Right ... ?
Addded Jan 15, 2018
Farewell to the NBA's Summer of Subtweeting
The ho-hum playoffs didn't provide much excitement, but the NBA made up for it with an offseason straight out of Mean Girls.
Addded Oct 10, 2017
Lobo's path to become a basketball legend
How did Rebecca Lobo go from a kid shooting midrange jumpers at her Massachusetts home to the hall of fame?
Addded Sep 10, 2017
An ode to the hot dog
An ode to the hot dog, an American favorite that can tell us more about the United States as a whole than we may think.
Addded Jul 4, 2017
Steve Rushin's classic 1970s childhood
Fortunately for all of us, some hallmarks of the '70s childhood--the hair, the polyester, the nutritional choices--lacked staying power. But the totems of the Me Decade helped establish a lifelong affection for sports.
Addded Jun 22, 2017
Who Are You Wearing?
From the beginning, the NBA has been on fashion’s leading edge.
Addded Jun 21, 2017
From pop stars to the White House, the Cubs often embodied 20th century America
The Chicago Cubs were a part of the American fabric in the 60 years between their 1908 championship and the 1969 team that collapsed down the stretch.
Addded Nov 9, 2016
Larger Than Life: Kevin Garnett's oversized mark on the NBA
Kevin Garnett was all about eclipsing things: NBA records, opponents and their bank accounts.
Addded Sep 27, 2016
Moving Violations: Relocation saga is a tale of more than two cities
When you consider that Los Angeles stole the Rams from St. Louis, which had previously stolen them from Los Angeles, which had long before stolen them from Cleveland, whose NHL Barons had been the California Golden Seals before Cleveland stole them from Oakland...
Addded Jan 21, 2016
Rod Carew opens up about his private life and his near-death experience
SAN DIEGO--Playing alone at Cresta Verde Golf Course in Corona, Calif. on the sunny Sunday of Sept. 20, Rod Carew hit his drive off the first tee precisely where he drove so many of his 3,053 hits with the Minnesota Twins and California Angels: "Right down the middle," he says.
Addded Nov 23, 2015
The extensive reach of Flip Saunders
Flip Saunders was 5'11" but had the wingspan of a power forward, and exceptionally strong hands, fortified as a child by rubbing the pain from his mother's muscles-she had polio-and shucking corn on summer jobs outside Cleveland.
Addded Oct 26, 2015
A Life on the Flip Side
Timberwolves president and head coach Flip Saunders died Sunday at the age of 60 after fighting Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Steve Rushin shared his close connection with Saunders in a June 5, 2006 column for Sports Illustrated.
Addded Oct 26, 2015