PODCAST: Ryan Braun, Alberto Contador and the State of Drug Testing in Sports

I joined fellow writers Ethan Calof and Jacob Rude for the first edition of a weekly podcast that you will be able to find every week here at Global Turnstile if you miss the live airing at Spreecast. This week we discussed Ryan Braun’s successful appeal of his positive test for synthetic testosterone; Alberto Contador’s retroactive two-year suspension that resulted... Read More

NTSF: Initial Thoughts on the Green Sports Alliance Summit

I returned from Portland last night after three days spent at the inaugural Green Sports Alliance Summit, and the confluence of so many influential people and teams and businesses and the steps they’ve taken toward sustainable sport have my head swimming with a wealth of inspiring things to write about. I need to sort out everything and get my initial thoughts down before... Read More

A Nickel’s Worth: Thoughts After Super Bowl XLV

So the forty-fifth installment of that old NFL-AFL rivalry game gone gonzo is in the books, and stepping back from the fanatic in me that feels fourteen again made me want to get down my nickel’s worth on the five things that will last in my mind down the decades for this fourth Lombardi Trophy now enshrined alongside the others in the Packers Hall of Fame at Lambeau Field: 1.... Read More

NTSF 121: The Life of a Blessed Sports Fan…

I’ve been thinking the past few days about just how blessed I am as a sports fan. Perhaps it is just the glow after finishing the first draft of my first book, achieving the New Year’s resolution I set on the first of January 2010 of having this thing completed and ready to edit by the 31st of January 2011, that has me all aglow. If — nay, when – everything goes... Read More

NTSF 120: Cutler, Nadal and how we perceive injury as fans

For the second straight year, we’re left wondering what might have been as Rafael Nadal fell in the quarterfinals on a Wednesday in Melbourne. Last year it was a knee injury that derailed his bid to repeat as the Australian Open champion following his breakthrough 2009 victory, causing him to withdraw from his match against Andy Murray while already down two sets to love.... Read More