Liam Day adds some much-needed logical thinking to the debate about whether Mitt Romney wants to kill off Big Bird.
The Battle For Gay Rights is a Wrestling Match Over Masculine Identity
Liam Day explains the political controversy behind Vikings punter Chris Kluwe’s viral rant, and urges gay athletes to break the stereotype that pits homosexuality against masculinity.
10 Transcendent Moments of the 2012 Summer Olympics
Liam Day recaps the top 10 most transcendent moments of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Olympic Groin Punches
Former pro basketball player Liam Day believes being tough means not exacting revenge against fouls… Except maybe in the case of a nut-punch.
10 Transcendent Olympic Moments
Sport, like art, has the ability to lift us out of our mundane lives. In that spirit, Liam Day offers 10 moments of transcendent Olympic moments.
Roger Federer: Sport as Art
Liam Day explores how the art of sport is represented through some of the greatest athletes alive, most prominently in Wimbledon champion Roger Federer.
National Glory: Division I Sports and the Olympic Games
Athletic competition was never a spiritually innocent pursuit. College football is no exception.
Tiger Woods: He’s Back
Former pro athlete Liam Day believes that despite the sex scandal, Tiger Woods is mentally the toughest athlete he’s ever seen, and that the moral tension surrounding the star will be good for the sport.
Should There Be Laws Protecting Children From Playing Football?
Liam Day wonders how parents letting a 5 year-old play football is much different than the “tanorexic” mother who put her 5 year-old in a tanning bed.
Funktionslust: What The Hell Is It?
Prompted by the death of NBA player Dwayne Schintzius, Liam Day looks back on his own life and wonders if could ever have been as bold as the man in the mullet.
Fear, Derbyshire, and the Misuse of Crime Statistics
Liam Day wants to know: Why are we so afraid?
Is Money More Important For Men? Gov. Walker Repeals Equal Pay Act
Liam Day thinks there are deeper issues to pay inequality than Gov. Scott Walker repealing Wisconsin’s Equal Pay Enforcement Act.
Zimmerman and Sgt. Bales: Is Evil Something You Can See?
In the wake of recent tragedies, Liam Day believes our society is clinging desperately to the Puritanical notion that good and evil are features we can see from the outside.
March Madness And The Quaint Notion of Amateurism
Former pro player and coach Liam Day explains how college basketball has become less about educating young men and more about getting rich off them.
The Dentist, The Pogues, and Being Irish
This St. Patrick’s Day, Liam Day challenges the notion that in order to be a proper Irishman you have to get piss-drunk and belligerent.
New Study Finds Black Students More Likely To Face Harsh Discipline
Liam Day speaks to a new Department of Education study, which found a startling gap in the harshness of punishment based on race and sex.