It’s been almost two years since Dan Snyder, owner of the NFL team formerly known as the Washington Redskins (and still known as that in the hearts of thousands of football fans) caved into the social justice warriors and virtue…
Super Bowl Sunday looms. The high holy day of American sports. Normal events scheduled for that Sunday are canceled as great masses gather around big screens from coast to coast, regardless of who is playing, to view four hours of…
Washington — Let us now digress from my usual preoccupation, which is politics, to the world of athletics or to the world of athletics as it is affected by culture wars. Of course, culture wars is politics by another name….
The sad news of the death of John Madden has been met with the tidal wave of praise and appreciation that the memory of this great American deserves. His services to the country and the sport he loved are too…
This year our family decided to do something a little off the beaten track for Christmas. We spent it at a casino. We picked one of the big venues on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, figuring that food, fun, and fellowship…
No team has ever made it to the Super Bowl with a rookie starting quarterback, but the New England Patriots could make history this year. Mac Jones, drafted in the first round after leading the University of Alabama to the…
“If he calls me ‘Rubber Lips’ one time, I’ll kill him.” So said my best friend, D.J., at Sirena’s Pizza in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a group of my buddies and I worked in the mid-1980s. It remains my all-time favorite…
Who within the league office authorized the release of Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden’s private, decade-old emails that referred to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as a “f—-t” and a “clueless anti football p—y”? Hmmm. Deducing the answer does…
“I never meant to hurt anyone,” said John Gruden in a terse message signaling his resignation as the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Gruden isn’t guilty of a crime. He wasn’t resigning because his team was in a…