Serbian soccer player Nemanja Matić is facing a possible ban after he covered a rainbow patch on his uniform with white tape. Matić, who is a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church, isn’t the first to do so; other soccer…
Bill Belichick was born in April 1952. That makes him 73. Jordon Hudson is 24. Waste Management picks up my garbage cans every Friday, except on certain holidays. And Jollibee Food Corporation, some Philippines-based conglomerate, bought out the Coffee Bean…
It wasn’t all that long ago that the political class in Baton Rouge, Louisiana went around talking about their town as “America’s next great city.” And at the time, that wasn’t a ridiculous boast to make. The city, after all,…
Sports pages used to be sane alternatives to the insanity of the news pages. No more. Normal Americanos have just gotten their heads around the fact that two guys, or at least non-women, fought for the gold medal in women’s…
The legendary President of the University of Chicago during much of the first half of the last century, Robert Hutchins, once said (according to Joseph Epstein in his great new memoir Never Say You Had a Lucky Life) that “football…
We’re just days away from Pride Month — that holy season of the Left dedicated to the celebration of its most devastating sins. (If you aren’t already preparing to boycott major corporations and every coffee shop, you probably should be.)…
There’s such a thing as too much of even the best of things. Dolly Parton proved this. And most have enough restraint not to eat a dozen glazed, Krispy Crème donuts at one sitting. But if Roger Goodell and his merry…
The meteoric rise and fall of Quarterback Kenny Pickett in Pittsburgh in less than two short years (actually, in Pickett’s case, less than a year and a half of games) is taking the NFL by storm. Personally, it’s the most…
They pounded another nail into the coffin that is traditional amateur athletics on Monday. “They” is an amorphous actor, to be sure, comprising athletes, power brokers, agents, the courts, the government, and general mucky-mucks dissatisfied with a model of amateur…
