Compilations of “the most politically influential and outspoken” athletes crop up here and there occasionally. They list activists like Billie Jean King, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos, as well as overpaid, modern, but still outdated ones like Megan Rapinoe and…
Appropriately, it was an overhead forehand smash at the net that clinched the men’s doubles at the Australian Open for the Anglosphere team of Matthew Ebden and Rohan Bopanna. The big man from Bangalore, at 43 one of the masters…
Bill Belichick, who won a Super Bowl in one of every four seasons he coached the New England Patriots, parted with the team on Thursday. “He is the greatest coach of all time,” owner Robert Kraft said without hyperbole received…
The last Selection Sunday of the four-team College Football Playoff era went down pretty much according to chalk. Michigan’s inclusion everybody was certain of. Undefeated, ranked No. 1, conqueror of archrival Ohio State. Nobody for a moment doubted their bona…
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed House Bill 68, which would have barred physicians from performing “gender reassignment surgery” or prescribing “cross-sex hormones” to minors. It would have also banned schools from knowingly permitting transgender-identified male students to play on girl’s…
San Francisco is undergoing out-of-control urban decay. Its reputation is taking a hit as violent crime, homelessness, and theft are making the Golden Gate City a place to avoid, with businesses and residents leading the exodus. It’s even impacted the…
When I was a cute, sweet little boy back in 1960s Brooklyn, every Friday night after family Shabbat dinner I would lie on the floor in our living room. My dad would be lying right there, nearby on a couch,…
From late Saturday afternoon (or early Saturday evening, depending on your time zone) until noon or so Sunday, the universe of college football held its breath. The College Football Playoff Selection Committee (try saying that fast) would be meeting in…
Carron J. Phillips should win a Pulitzer Prize for his thoughtful Deadspin piece labeling a nine-year-old white boy a genocidal, African/Native American-hating racist for inexplicably wearing blackface to a football game. Phillips, himself an oppressed minority because he is black…
