Golf for Good?

Tiger Woods and the Cobbs Creek Foundation are bringing STEM learning and golf access to the historic course where the “Jackie Robinson of golf” learned to play. Their goal: Use golf as a road to opportunity

By Natalie Pompilio

Who’s Doing Arenas Right?

For two years The Citizen has chronicled win-win sports developments around the country. In light of the long-awaited feasibility study on a proposed Center City Sixers arena, here are some ideas Philly should consider stealing

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

DEI on the Schuylkill

This month’s U.S. Olympic rowing team looks how the sport has always looked: entirely White. Three accessible rowing camps in Philly are looking to change that

By Lauren McCutcheon

Caitlin Clark, Race and the WNBA

A public intellectual and former Penn professor on how Black women are once again getting the short end of the sports media narrative

By Michael Eric Dyson

Citizen of the Week: Nadia Bosket

The founder of Hoop Dreams, Inc. has figured out how to help Philly kids make friends, be confident and focus on opportunities, using basketball as bait

By Lauren McCutcheon

Book Excerpt: Grace and Grit In a West Philly Boxing Gym

A local photographer’s new book features the “rich beauty” of the athletes, trainers and family of West Philly’s James Shuler Memorial Boxing Gym.

By Jano Cohen

The New Urban Order: The Sports Economy is More than Stadiums

Whether or not the Sixers get to build their downtown arena, the way we think about sports culture in cities is severely limited. Could a “Sports Mayor” help reshape what athletics mean to a city?

By Diana Lind

Big Rube’s Philly: Marc Jackson

The chef and photographer catches up with the former NBA player and current Sixers TV analyst, world traveler, fitness devotee and fashion plate

By Reuben Harley

12+ Women’s Spaces in Philadelphia

Where to find safe, fun, joyous and healthy activities by and for women on International Women’s Day and beyond

By Monica Constable

Dear Eagles Fans, Let Jason Kelce Retire

It’s time to say good-bye to Fat Batman. Not because he’s way past his football prime, but because we Eagles fans love him and his family too much to jeopardize his — and our — future together

By Olivia Kram