Department Index
Sports Nut 2009:
The stadium scene.
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- Football Fantasy Land The NFL Network's RedZone channel reveals the future of fandom.
Nov. 25, 2009 - Flag Football How the NFL became the American war game.
Nov. 17, 2009 - Bill Simmons: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut The Sports Guy's The Book of Basketball is a crude, fantastic mess.
Nov. 11, 2009 - Geezers Win! Geezers Win! The old-as-dirt New York Yankees take the 2009 World Series.
Nov. 5, 2009 - Yankees Fan to A-Rod: Drop Dead A dispatch from Game 1 of the World Series.
Oct. 29, 2009 - Satchel Paige vs. Babe Ruth Integrating Major League Baseball retroactively with Strat-o-Matic cards.
Oct. 28, 2009 - The Overmanager Why the New York Yankees' Joe Girardi is too smart for his own good.
Oct. 27, 2009 - How To Fix the WNBA Why the NBA's plan for selling women's basketball will never work—and what might.
Oct. 20, 2009 - Cocktail Chatter: Baseball Playoffs Edition How to fake your way through the 2009 baseball playoffs.
Oct. 6, 2009 - Get Your Head Out of the Game How should Florida respond to Tim Tebow's concussive brain injury?
Sept. 30, 2009 - The Eyes Have It Is visual training the sports world's next big thing?
Sept. 29, 2009 - A Modesty Proposal How should Roger Federer—the greatest tennis player on earth—talk about his own greatness?
Sept. 10, 2009 - College Football's Season of Discontent How today's game was shaped by the racial strife of 1969.
Sept. 3, 2009 - The Not-Quite-Ultimate Fighting Championship Will the absence of the world's best fighter, Russia's Fedor Emelianenko, halt UFC's ascent to the big leagues?
Aug. 19, 2009 - The Favre and I Sports Illustrated's Peter King falls out of love with his favorite source.
Aug. 18, 2009 - Can Topps Save Baseball Cards? Major League Baseball just signed an exclusive deal with the legendary card maker. Bad idea.
Aug. 11, 2009 - The Only Bigmouths Were the Fish My short, bewildering seasons covering the professional bass circuit.
Aug. 5, 2009 - Pool Hustlers Swimming's polyurethane-assisted glide off the deep end.
July 31, 2009 - Double Stuffed For LeBron James, getting dunked on was bad. Trying to suppress the tape was worse.
July 22, 2009 - JerkStrong How Lance Armstrong is like Sarah Palin.
July 7, 2009 - The Manny To End the Steroids Era Manny Ramirez reveals our true attitude about baseball's drug war.
July 6, 2009 - Steroids, Anyone? Tennis is one of the few sports that hasn't been tainted by doping scandals. Can any sport possibly be that clean?
July 1, 2009 - You Call That a Strike?! Why does Major League Baseball use an outdated, misleading camera angle to show the batter and pitcher?
June 25, 2009 - Moneygolf What can stat geeks tell us about what it takes to win on the links?
June 18, 2009 - Zen and the Art of Winning NBA Championships Who has the better life philosophy, Phil Jackson or Stan Van Gundy?
June 12, 2009 - Wanted: Insane Tennis Parents The only way to end America's Grand Slam drought.
June 2, 2009 - Kobe the Kingmaker The NBA's ultimate rivalry: Kobe Bryant vs. the Guy Beating Kobe Bryant.
May 28, 2009 - You're Out The national pastime's shocking death toll.
May 26, 2009 - Why Is Michael Phelps Tinkering With Success? Wasn't his old stroke good enough for Olympic gold?
May 20, 2009 - Quit Horsing Around Is the new, less debauched Preakness Stakes still fun?
May 18, 2009 - Baseball Is Like Tag The winners of Slate's "Define Baseball in 150 Words" contest.
May 7, 2009 - Do NBA Players Try Harder in the Playoffs? The guys from Basketball Prospectus try to quantify the intangibles.
May 5, 2009 - Rookie Abuse In 1970, James "Yazoo" Smith sued the NFL to shut down the draft. What happened next?
April 23, 2009 - Define Baseball in 150 Words A Slate contest.
April 17, 2009 - Cocktail Chatter: NBA Playoffs Edition How to fake your way through the 2009 postseason.
April 16, 2009 - In the Hole Watching the Masters in a recession.
April 13, 2009 - The Final Snore A charmless oligarchy of schools has sucked the excitement out of the NCAA Tournament.
April 3, 2009 - Wake Me When It's Over Is this the most boring NCAA Tournament ever?
March 24, 2009 - Teams We Hate Duke, Eric Devendorf, and five more odious things about this year's NCAA Tournament.
March 18, 2009 - How To Win Your NCAA Pool Act like a hedge-fund manager, and pick Duke to win it all.
March 18, 2009 - The Year of Magical Shooting How Stephen Curry became a basketball folk hero.
March 12, 2009 - Going Battier Can Michael Lewis' latest article make me a better pickup basketball player?
Feb. 24, 2009 - Deep in the Glute of Texas How did A-Rod's Rangers become ground zero for baseball's steroids scandal?
Feb. 18, 2009 - King NBA What's with the overpraise for pro basketball commissioner David Stern?
Feb. 13, 2009 - Alex Rodriguez, Fallen Hero? Nobody liked him before the steroids, nobody likes him now.
Feb. 8, 2009 - The QB That Saved Pittsburgh Ben Roethlisberger leads the Steelers to an amazing comeback win in Super Bowl XLIII.
Feb. 2, 2009 - Flipping Awful Why the NFL should replace the overtime coin toss with an auction system.
Jan. 29, 2009 - My Son Is the Greatest Football Player Ever Sportswriter Larry Fitzgerald Sr. says he can cover his son objectively. Why does Rick Reilly believe him?
Jan. 26, 2009 - Razing Arizona The Cardinals' presence in the Super Bowl is fluky and disgraceful.
Jan. 26, 2009 - Fictional Moldovan Soccer Phenom Tells All Inside the ingenious hoax that fooled the British sports press.
Jan. 23, 2009 - How the Philadelphia Eagles Saved Their Season They did absolutely nothing.
Jan. 15, 2009 - Boycott the BCS! A statistical analyst takes a stand against college football's perverse, irrational Bowl Championship Series.
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