Department of Weekend Reading: February 14, 2014

In the 1920s, Soviet athletic competitions(they were barred from the Olympics until 1952) featured no winners or losers, but equality between the genders and cool modernist outfits.
Western Catholics still think the Catholic Church is wrong on just about everything, but African and Asian Catholics are more amenable.
Zirin: NFL owners “sound like scared children when they talk about the prospect of drafting a player of the character of Michael Sam.”
Nap-time to weddings: IKEA in China.
Marco Rubio...