Of the recently departed Gene Hackman’s greatest hits — take your pick among The French Connection, Unforgiven, and The Royal Tenenbaums, among others — the most loved, at least for those seeking a fairytale David versus Goliath sports redemption story,…
Could the NBA finally be paying the price for its woke ways? It’s certainly paying the price for something. The early-season TV numbers tell the tale. Across the networks with rights to broadcast league games, ESPN, TNT, and ABC, viewership…
I was saddened to learn that All-Universe women’s basketball star and national sweetheart Caitlin Clark has, sort of, endorsed Kamala Harris for president. She did so by “liking” an Instagram post by pop icon Taylor Swift, whose every action, statement,…
“Game seven.” The words themselves have a magical ring. Just saying the two “most exciting words in sports” sends the cliché generator into the red zone. For, indeed, players give “110 percent” in these games and “don’t leave anything on…
If you were under the illusion that the Women’s National Basketball Association was actually about basketball, the league’s reception of Caitlin Clark might strike you as bewildering. Clark began her professional basketball career in May amid an unprecedented amount of…
While most media commentators are blaming racial division for the vicious aggression shown to WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark, the source of the malevolence is more primal. It is more likely that envy is what is driving the hateful behavior and…
By now you’ve heard about the comments of the University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley. A day prior to South Carolina’s victory over Iowa in the NCAA women’s championship game last Sunday, Staley was asked whether she…
Women’s basketball seems to be the locus of our stupid national controversies of late, and I’m going to surmise that is part and parcel of the legacy media push to force the game into the cultural mainstream. You’ve seen countless…
A controversy arose this week that is simultaneously a little-bitty nothing and a hornet’s nest of grand magnitude — and it must be addressed because a little bit of truth and reality needs to be shouted from as high a…
