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  1. Jeff MacGregor

    Jeff MacGregor



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  2. Preakness - I'll Have Another restores our faith

    Jeff MacGregor

    We long for a Triple Crown winner. But who in their right mind thought I'll Have Another could possibly be that horse.

    Story | Conversation | May 19, 2012
  3. The week in sports (and more)

    Jeff MacGregor

    An anthropological romp through the lesser and greater headlines in sports (and more) from the week past.

    Story | Conversation | May 18, 2012
  4. Sports week in review

    Jeff MacGregor

    The week in review from death to life, from loss to win, from political metaphors to sports clichés.

    Story | Conversation | May 11, 2012
  5. Martin Brodeur, Mariano Rivera, greatness and midlife

    Jeff MacGregor

    It is a rare and happy thing to grow old and great in your craft. Thoughts on Martin Brodeur and Mariano Rivera.

    Story | Conversation | May 04, 2012
  6. Flyers G Ilya Bryzgalov and mysteries in the crease

    Jeff MacGregor

    Tuesday night's game was Ilya Bryzgalov's untidy season in miniature: a brilliant mess, an expensive oddball thought-experiment on the persistent unfairness of fairness, and a jittery meditation on uncertainty.

    Story | Conversation | May 02, 2012
  7. Devils of Newark, 'New Jersey's only real team'

    Jeff MacGregor

    Watching Game 7 in Newark: When the Devils moved from the Meadowlands a few years ago, not only were they anchoring a new urban improvement strategy, they were moving from no place to someplace.

    Story | Conversation | April 27, 2012
  8. In stories like Bobby Petrino's, the problem isn't values; it's m...

    Jeff MacGregor

    "Family values!" cry the Republicans. And the Democrats. And the newspapers. And the churches. And Steve Harvey. "Family values" are not the problem in stories such as Bobby Petrino's. The problem is men.

    Story | Conversation | April 16, 2012
  9. What sports can bring to the debate about race in America, Part I...

    Jeff MacGregor

    Somehow it gets better. Somehow it got better. Thanks to incalculable sacrifice, we've all been set free. We arrive in 2012 with a black president and a future as bright as we choose to make it.

    Story | Conversation | April 09, 2012
  10. What sports can bring to the debate about race in America

    Jeff MacGregor

    Trayvon Martin and the Miami Heat have brought the games we play back to the forefront of the ongoing struggle for racial equality in America. Are sports truly colorblind?

    Story | Conversation | April 03, 2012
  11. Welcome to New York, Broadway Tim Tebow

    Jeff MacGregor

    The basic contribution of Tim Tebow to professional football, it seems to me, and to religious discussion and to modern American culture generally, has been to embody the essential tension between faith and science.

    Story | Conversation | March 26, 2012
  12. Andy Pettitte, Peyton Manning, Jamie Moyer, Sergio Martinez, Rand...

    Jeff MacGregor

    Maybe it's just spring fever, but something strange is happening in sports. Andy Pettitte, Peyton Manning, Jason Kidd and other graybeards are defying the aging process.

    Story | Conversation | March 20, 2012
  13. Why does Peyton Manning want to keep playing?

    Jeff MacGregor

    Peyton Manning will play on, by all accounts, but it might not be pretty. So rather than ask where he'll meet his next challenge, perhaps we should ask what he thinks that challenge really is.

    Story | Conversation | March 13, 2012
  14. Mutiny and the NFL bounty

    Jeff MacGregor

    The obvious question is whether or not the Saints' bounty program encouraged dirty play. Did it reward an intent to injure? The real question: How much does this hurt the NFL's image?

    Story | Conversation | March 05, 2012
  15. Daytona 500 in fits and starts

    Jeff MacGregor

    I'm still not sure what the central narrative has been this race week. Danica Patrick needs to crash less. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is less like other drivers than he would have been a decade ago. A rainy day notebook.

    Story | Conversation | February 27, 2012
  16. Daytona 500 winner tough to predict

    Jeff MacGregor

    There's no central narrative this year at the Daytona 500 except the changes to the cars. No real arc of interpersonal drama, no rising conflict Aristotelian or Chekhovian or even Hatfield/McCoyian.

    Story | Conversation | February 24, 2012
  17. NASCAR - Jeff MacGregor's This Sporting Life

    Jeff MacGregor

    It's the annual drama that is Daytona. Jeff MacGregor is on board to chronicle the spectacle from the buildup and aftermath of the "Great American Race."

    Story | Conversation | February 23, 2012