For many years, ever since the commencement of the modern Olympics in 1896, the US and European powers have controlled the Olympic Games. They have come to believe that they "own" them. The figures tell the story.

As we remember the 40th anniversary of that dark day of April 4th 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, it's worth recalling the reaction by Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star Roberto Clemente.

SpyGate is the sports scandal du jour. It centers on the New England Patriots surreptitious videotaping of the New York Jets last September and the subsequent destruction of the evidence by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Last weekend the NBA All-Star Game came to New Orleans. If you were one of the thousands to make the trip to the Big Easy and hang out on Bourbon Street, you no doubt saw one kind of NOLA.

Apparently it's not killer bees, sleeper cells, or flesh eating viruses we are supposed to fear this week. According to the mainstream media, it's the Super Bowl that's hazardous to our health.

And not since J-Lo's heyday – or maybe Brad Pitt's rear appearance in Thelma and Louise – has a butt been so utterly over-discussed. We now know that Roger Clemens has a rear end that's seen more needles than Keith Richards' family room.

Chilling. That's the only way to describe Michael Vick's 23 month sentence for admitting he bankrolled the "Bad Newz Kennels" dogfighting operation and helped kill the dogs that couldn't perform.

Washington football player Sean Taylor is dead at the age of 24, shot and killed at home in front of his partner and 18-month-old daughter. Four people have already been arrested, three of them teenagers.

Barry Lamar Bonds faces thirty years in prison because the Department of Justice is a corroded husk of political decay. The baseball Home Run King has now been officially indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.

Jason "Big Sexy" Whitlock has told me to "mind own damn business" when it comes to his mission to lead a new Civil Rights movement against "Black idiots." But whether you are talking about Whitlock or someone hanging a noose on a tree, there is a problem when you say, "Just ignore it and it will go away."

On September 26, 2007 at Hangzhou, China a revolution was born that would shake the world—a revolution in the world of Fútbol, commonly known in North America as “soccer.”

There's an old cliché that the most popular college football team in the United States is whoever plays Notre Dame.

Let's get this out of the way early: I don't support the fighting of dogs. I am not sitting here in a Michael Vick jersey snacking on Labrador fajitas thinking that his 12 month plea bargain is the greatest injustice since Sacco and Vanzetti.

Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the last place on earth I would have expected a "structurally deficient bridge" to collapse, but it happened. As sure as the levees broke in New Orleans, the bridge is no more.

We the undersigned are shocked that the state of Texas aims to execute Kenneth on August 31 for the "crime" of driving a car. His 10-year-old daughter will live without a father because of a law obscene in its existence, and repellent in it's application.

Pity the poor soul that sets to write a great sports novel. It can feel like trying to train a goldfish to fetch. Sisyphus might find pushing that rock up the hill a more fruitful task.

As a former public school teacher in Washington, I heard this cliche from countless bureaucrats. It was code for "Stop whining about ancient textbooks and prehistoric classroom materials, because there is no money."

Before all the NBA oxygen is inhaled by this week’s draft; before our days are dedicated to debates about whether Greg Oden or Kevin Durant is the true superstar of the 2007 cattle call.

As the San Francisco Giants slugger approaches Henry Aaron’s record for career homers, this probability seems to be turning otherwise rational people upside down, as Bonds has encountered an almost surreal level of hostility.

Kevin Cooper is a sports fan. Kevin Cooper loves the Steelers. Kevin Cooper makes his home on death row at the notorious San Quentin Penitentiary in California. Cooper awaits execution for a crime many observers are convinced he did not commit.