The Importance of Pecking Orders to Boys

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Should parents and teachers intervene in the jockeying for status endemic among adolescent boys?

How Revenge Of The Nerds Ruined My Life

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If you think your only two choices are to be a nerd or a jock, writes Noah Brand, you are doomed from the start.

Jocks Behaving Badly

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Mark Radcliffe asks if athletes don’t share our everyday frustrations, why can’t they behave themselves out on the town?

‘He’s not complex. He’s a lacrosse player.’

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Wait, all men who play sports are idiots? Cameron Conaway thought we were past that.

A Teenage Tale of Tampon Triumph

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Teenage Unlce Woofie champions male sensitivity and purchases the right tampons—all in a day’s work.

A Basketball Writer Who Can’t Ball

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Bethlehem Shoals’ relationship with basketball exists through watching and writing about the NBA. Nothing with that, right?