Nazaré. Does that mean anything to you? It didn’t mean anything to anybody a dozen years ago. But the little town of that name on the Portuguese coast has in the past few years vaulted into prominence as the go-to…
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….
Before addressing how LeBron James is a purveyor of cancel culture, I feel compelled to acknowledge his basketball greatness. Yes, before it got woke, I was a big fan of the NBA. I still watch the playoffs, though that…
Perhaps the Right was a little hasty with its condemnations of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. Early in 2021, Noem proposed legislation that would require all athletic contests in the state to be designated as male, female, and both, and…
I heard it on Colin Cowherd’s entertaining radio show, and it was a statistic about Russell Westbrook, basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers. Westbrook, who lives rent-free in a room in Cowherd’s head (Aaron Rodgers and Baker Mayfield live…
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…
We can all agree that USA Today is essentially America’s lowest common denominator newspaper, can we not? It isn’t that USA Today is completely fake news. It’s more like no news at all, or at least very little. And it’s…
