From A Left Wing

I wrote about Sam Gordon the other week for Salon . Love. Her.

Painted in mud, the best high school cross-country runners stumbled across the line. The exhausted pack ran their wors...

Kelly Smith celebrates a goal, her magic foot and the shoe it was in. When you teach you learn pretty quickly that the very smartest and...

Solo: A Memoir of Hope is the story of a deeply charismatic outsider. She is a lone wolf, but she was also a prom queen. That's the p...

  Can Nike come up with an Olympic motto worse than "Greatness has been found?" YES! Of course, this shirt is only sold in w...

Mariya Savinova and Caster Semenya When Caster Semenya raced from last to second in the final stretch of the women's 800 meters, som...

Doing it themselves. USWNT fans at the 2011 World Cup semi-final. At the end of yesterday's match, most of the USWNT pulled Nike t-s...

On July 20th, someone tweeting as Pia Sundhage - and I do think it might actually be Sundhage - wrote the following: Happy Players h...

In two interviews, four years apart, two different USWNT players casually identified themselves as gay to reporters. Neither d...

The network that broadcasts the Olympics mediates the Olympics. That is what media does. NBC has been particularly stingy with the live b...

According to the FIFA preview for this event, Team GB's game against Brazil will be the first women's football match ever played at ...