sports
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Pro sports are heating up. Some athletes are calling for climate action.
As global warming threatens the world of professional sports, a growing number of athletes are taking a stand -- even as industry leaders stay silent.
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Miami can have one last Super Bowl, as a treat
Eliminating single-use plastics won’t save the most popular Super Bowl host from climate change.
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The Olympics keeps getting greener — well, the pools do, anyway
Algae is turning Rio's pools a frightening shade of green.
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Here’s a new Olympic sport to consider: Safe sex
The push for protection is partially attributed to anxieties around the Zika virus, which is sexually transmittable.
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How Chicago’s Little League scandal cheats city kids
The young players from Jackie Robinson West were stripped of their Little League title. City kids everywhere may have lost a lot more.
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Professional athletes are spraying deer antler velvet into their mouths
There is a great kerfuffle in the sports world over a bunch of football players who have been taking performance-enhancing supplements containing extracts from deer antler velvet.
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Cloned horses could compete in the Olympics
The highest body of equestrian sports, the Federation Equestre Internationale, is just a little obsessed with where horse babies come from. And not without reason — have you seen the prices for champion horse sperm these days? (Man, you know this is a phrase that has actually come out of Mitt Romney’s mouth. And we […]
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Jose Canseco schools Twitter on climate change
Jose Canseco knows as much about global warming as I know about Jose Canseco, which is to say, not much. I’m told he’s “the total train wreck of baseball” and I’m willing to believe it, now that I’ve seen him take his Twitter followers to school on climate change. Are you ready for this? You’re not. […]
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Philadelphia Eagles build a green stadium
The Philadelphia Eagles’ helmets are already green, and by next year their stadium will match. The team is partnering with power company NRG to build one of the greenest sports arenas in the country.