Thanks to left-wing, racialist politics on the court as well as the three-point shot and the desultory game that has resulted from it, I long ago abandoned the NBA. Too bad. It provided some fine sports moments in the past….
Some happy news in dismal times: Gael Monfils proposed to Elina Svitolina, promising a wedding in a few months and congratulations across the low-key, by pro-sports standards, tennis world for a unit that is deservedly popular with both fans and…
The NBA is worried. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem too worried about what we conservatives would like it to be worried about: the kneeling, its players and coaches talking so much politics, the league’s buddy-buddy relationship with China. What has the…
Many of the usual markers were there. Bracketology still ruled the airwaves leading up to Selection Sunday — the usual pundits opining with customary authority on which schools were “on the bubble” and which were “locks” to make the 68-team…
We are two hours removed from Pittsburgh as we roll into the small town of Oberlin, Ohio. It’s a gray day in early January. There’s a chill in the air, and few people are about. Students at the college make…
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. The next day the House passed it 417-1. It now goes to President Trump, and he is expected to sign it promptly. The Human Rights and Democracy Act would require the secretary of…
The Hong Kong saga reached a climax this past week with back-to-back American corporate capitulations to the Chinese government. The spotlight has been on the National Basketball Association’s disastrous handling of a pro–Hong Kong tweet made by Daryl Morey, the…
