So our readers will know, for the near entirety of your author’s life, pro and college sports have been an obsession. Looking back on it, probably an unhealthy one. Age and maturity and the vicissitudes of 21st-century life are sharply…
You’re in a dream. In this dream you’re a basketball coach. Your team is in the championship game but is behind by a point, 8 seconds to play. Your ball is at half court. Time has been called, and you’ve…
It was April 26, 1983. The place was the New York Sheraton Hotel. It was destined to be one of the most remarkable NFL drafts in history. Everyone sensed it. Star quarterbacks abounded. At the top of the board were…
Does a football coach at a public high school have the right to pray, visibly for players and fans to see, after football games in which he coaches? The Bremerton School District, in Washington state, says no; Joseph Kennedy, the…
The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), aka Wimbledon or simply The Championships, the most prestigious event in tennis, announced Wednesday it was banning Russian and Belarusian players from this year’s draws as a gesture against the Russian invasion of…
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron” stands apart as one of dystopian literature’s most poignant works, making up for its brevity in striking social commentary. The tale is set in the United States, year 2081. The newly ratified 211th,…
I don’t like tennis. I don’t like any sport involving balls, with the exception of soccer. Actually, all I know about the Olympic disciplines is what Dave Barry suggested: “Have you noticed that whatever sport you’re trying to learn, some…
After a one-year absence and another year with only the most spare and (literally) antiseptic iteration in history, March Madness is back this spring in all its pomp and glory. Multiple sites, pep bands, fans, cheerleaders, a Final Four in…
