My favorite White Sox fan is an 12-year-old from the far South Side of Chicago, who summers at his family’s beach house in Massachusetts, where news of the outside world comes but slowly. So as I watched Mark Buehrle, the implacably Midwestern Sox pitcher, toss a perfect game on a July afternoon last year, I…

Here are three reasons I loved last night’s gold medal ice dancing winners, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir: They had spectacular chemistry on ice, they were the first North Americans to win the gold medal (in their first Olympics!), and…they weren’t siblings. Even the silver medal winners, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, and bronze medal winners,…

I believe that history will show that Tiger Woods launched his professional political career today, with his well-crafted and publicized press conference. He is no longer the golfer or the celebrity or the superstar. He is the cultural icon who is to society’s stage what a politician used to be to the country. And like…

If you’ve been watching the Winter Olympics and following the men’s figure skating competitions, you’ve probably familiar with Johnny Weir. You might have also heard the word “redemption” thrown around a lot by commentators across different sports at these Olympics–the word has been attached to everyone from Lindsey Jacobellis (women’s snowboarding) to Lindsey Vonn (women’s…

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