When do doping controls in sport go overboard? When they [ruin the very spirit of the competitions they are designed to protect... →]

Zach looks at how changing diet can do as much as (or more than) performance-enhancing drugs to help an athlete realize his or her full potential…

I have found myself thinking about my writing an awful lot lately. Between trying my hand at a quick 50,000-word novel and preparing to spend the winter grappling with a Non-Traditional Sports Fan’s almanac/manifesto of 2010, I have a couple huge projects weighing on my mind simultaneously. And that goes without mentioning the pull to [...]

By the time this goes up on the site, I’ll be somewhere en route to California to the Bioneers conference in San Rafael. The coffee company my wife’s family owns and operates needed a few extra bodies to man their trio of locations at the event, and so I was conscripted for active duty. It’s [...]

   I wasn’t planning on having to write this piece, and I wasn’t planning on having to bring this week’s column to you late. What you’ll read deeper into this week’s edition is the direction I’d hoped to go, discussing hour tournaments like the Olympic hockey spectacle and the Davis Cup and the Ryder Cup are [...]

    What makes us enjoy what we enjoy; how do our spectating proclivities develop, and why do we take interest in some events and not in others? It’s one of those things that I keep rolling over again and again in my brain as I find myself overwhelmed at times with the sheer number of events that [...]

It has been a long, strange trip writing this column over the past two years. What began as a humble request to write a weekly post in a now-defunct group of the SI-affiliated fan site FanNation found itself moving along with me when I became the managing editor of Informative Sports. We had a great [...]