At a muted Olympics, the host opens its doors but remains in another room
In practice, these are not the Beijing Winter Olympics. They aren't allowed to be. They should be referred to as the Winter Olympics (Beijing). These...
For Aaron Rodgers and a new breed of superstar, a dream job is no longer good enough | Jerry Brewer
The superstar NFL quarterback, the most irreplaceable asset in sports, has joined a party once exclusive to NBA greats. But Aaron Rodgers' fight with Green...
Opinion: The Deshaun Watson allegations are excruciating, but we must not look away
For two weeks now, sexual misconduct allegations against Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson have accumulated with disturbing persistence, surfacing one, three, seven claims at a time....
A year after Kobe Bryant’s death, the mourning and misery continue
A year later, the tears have not stopped. They flow with an anguish as fresh as that dreadful Sunday when word spread that Kobe Bryant's...
For Black athletes, social unrest is not a game, and this historic action is an urgent plea | Jerry Brewer
For all its stealthy might, the novel coronavirus didn't burst the NBA bubble. Police brutality did. Racism did. Heartless disregard for Black lives did. This...
Drew Brees was the saddest kind of wrong about meaning of anthem protests
Drew Brees' failure to grasp the meaning of anthem protests showed that plenty of otherwise decent people can lack understanding.
Richard Sherman bet on himself, and is returning to Super Bowl as a self-remade man | Jerry Brewer VIEW
As a married 31-year-old father of two children, as a 49er, as a man with surgical scars on both Achilles tendons, Richard Sherman is going...
There are no great teams in the NBA this season, and that might be good | Jerry Brewer
Will the real NBA superstars please stand up? The super team era seems over, or at least delayed.
Megan Rapinoe isn’t here to make you comfortable | Jerry Brewer
Megan Rapinoe is just a person unafraid to express the good, bad and unflinchingly ugly in our diverse and complicated country, and that allows her...