TIME Olympic Covers Feature Women Athletes as . . . Athletes
Distinctive for depicting America's female Olympic athletes as strong, powerful and individual, TIME's Olympic covers are notable just for portraying the women as athletes.
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Some Thoughts on the Penn State Joe Paterno Statue Removal Photo
Of course, the finger in the air while "he's being hauled off" reads like an act of pride -- and defiance. ...Still number one!
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ESPN's Body Issues
Every so quick to mock or complete bail on the sports, these irony-challenged covers might have been sexy and meaningful, too.
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A Closer Look at ’99 Photo of Sandusky Touching a Player
There's more to appreciate here beyond just the irony we read in an instant. ... As there often is.
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A Few Words About Joe Klamar's Viral (and "Obviously Terrible") Olympic Portraits
Whether the picture subverts the background, the composition, the lighting or the athlete's expression, what at least a handful of Klamar's photos "accomplish" is to slight the plasticized image of the Olympic athlete perpetuated throughout the quadrennial media and advertising orgy.
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May Day Spiral
There's a perverse logic to the fact these hooligans choose to take out their frustration on the retail face of a sports-entertainment empire all-too-popular for its violence.
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St. Tebow and the Sign of the Crossbars
Sports in America, cherished as it is on Sundays throughout the year, is more religion in this country than religion itself.
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Spiking the …. Uniform? Women's Olympic Volleyball Getting "More Flexible"
The International Volleyball Federation has signaled that they are willing to let women's teams wear more modest uniforms, but how did the current uniforms come to be so skimpy in the first place?
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The Audacity of Hoop
Obama and Cameron chomping down foot longs at the NCAA's? Call it one more smooth layup in the Campaign '12 optics battle.
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Quick Takes: Street Views of Jeremy Lin's Family Home
A story too important to be left to the paparazzi.
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Bart Starr Meets Starship Troopers Meets Cleopatra: Super Bowl as Cosmic Mashup
Science fiction has always been about the present, and about the relationship between politics and society. The Super Bowl is a relative newcomer, but thanks to the power of spectacle it’s catching up fast.
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Pussycats in the Clouds: Go Daddy Paints Super Bowl 2012
The visuals remind us that on Super Bowl Sunday, the only thing that viewers consume more of than chips and beer is women’s bodies.
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Matthew’s Day Off: Or, Why 2012 Super Bowl Ads Drowning in Nostalgia
In the Super Bowl ad nostalgia of 2012, corporations and advertising people they employ are working hard to convince us that things in this decade aren’t so different from the past fifty or so years. ...Funny why that is.
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Next Up: Bowl Season
The brand ID can be seen to implicate the overwhelming role of sponsorship and advertising money in college sports. Given that's the game, the image of kids in the pen has a much wider significance.
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The Penn State Mural and the Cover-Up of Jerry Sandusky
The new mural simultaneously represents an effort to revise history (the institution's detaching itself from an infamous figure) and an awareness of implications of that act.
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War Games
One detail that stands out is the Addidas logo on each blue or red vest. Is part of the Iranian army sponsored by the European sports wear company?
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