Loving sports when they don't love you back: dilemmas of the modern fan

Watching football when we know (even a little) about CTE

Forgiving a doper

Cheering for a team with a racist mascot

Caring about tennis when it's a racist, sexist, and classist sport

Standing it when sports are so homophobic and transphobic

Why you should watch the WNBA even if no one dunks

Consuming sports media when you don't look like the people who are creating it

Rooting for your team when the star is accused of domestic violence

Loving your team and hate your owner

How I l learned to stop worrying and love baseball's free market

Watching March Madness when you know the athletes aren't getting paid

Going to a game in that brand new stadium you didn't want to pay for (but did anyway)

Loving the Olympics while hating what they do to communities

Embracing that athletes

and sports

are political.