I was raised on the baseball highlight reel. As a kid, SportsCenter was my breakfast. Eat a little Cinnamon Toast Crunch,…
The Dilemmas of American Conservatism Edited by Kenneth L. Deutsch and Ethan Fishman (The University Press of Kentucky, 212 pages,…
Last May 12, I fell out of love with the NBA. The league that I had loved in the mid-nineties…
My name is Michael Brendan Dougherty and I have a problem. You see, spring training is over. The old songs…
The place that invented the “Bronx cheer” doesn’t cotton to its baseball players easily. Yankees fans took years to warm…
The Seattle SuperSonics have died. The team bequeathed one NBA championship title and several YouTube videos of Shawn Kemp dunks…
In pop culture, drag racing had given us idiotically romantic images like James Dean in his Porsche 356 Speedster bolting…
Imagine sitting in front of Henry Waxman and explaining that the man who accuses you of taking an illicit substance…
One reel of film will be played thousands of times on ESPN this week to mark the surprise midseason retirement…
On the morning of October 28, 1986, Darryl Strawberry knocked on his friend’s door. No answer. “Doc, c’mon.” Then he…