As the Olympics heads into its second week, China is pulling ahead in the gold medal count. As of Monday morning, China topped the charts with 21 gold medals, while the U.S. trailed behind with 19. On today’s episode of…
Last week, Donald Trump challenged Joe Biden to a golf match, continuing a stand-out moment in a debate filled with stand-out moments in which the presumptive presidential candidates argued about which one of them could hit a golf ball the…
I was absolutely baseball crazy. It was 1958, I was six years old, and I was falling in love with baseball. It didn’t matter that I couldn’t play it very well. Even though I would eventually play Little League, I…
“Game seven.” The words themselves have a magical ring. Just saying the two “most exciting words in sports” sends the cliché generator into the red zone. For, indeed, players give “110 percent” in these games and “don’t leave anything on…
The NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Final are in full flight. News came down recently that college football players will soon receive regular salaries for their play; the best golfer in the world got arrested and booked while trying…
While most media commentators are blaming racial division for the vicious aggression shown to WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark, the source of the malevolence is more primal. It is more likely that envy is what is driving the hateful behavior and…
A new Major League Baseball career batting average leader dethroned Ty Cobb this week. He last competed more than 75 years ago and never played in a single Major League Baseball game. Josh Gibson batted .359, according to the Baseball…
Finally, a news event on which to peg a rant about a pox that has descended on the sporting world. I am, of course, speaking about pickleball — the pox — and a story in Outkick — the news event….
Sports Illustrated unleashed the latest salvo in its crusade against masturbation this week by placing Gayle King in a bathing suit on its cover. Call it penance for when SI allied against the prudes in the war on masturbation by…