No matter how sincere the efforts to make sports “inclusive,” every inclusion initiative ends with the reality that sports exclude. USA Cycling wanted to “prioritize the balance between fairness and inclusion” when developing its latest Transgender Participation Policy. Its solution…
It’s been two years since college athletes have been allowed to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL), and the chaotic “wild West” of college sports was the promised result has exceeded expectations to the point where the U.S….
For a few minutes on Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles were the only remaining undefeated team in the National Football League. The San Francisco 49ers having lost — improbably — to the Browns out in Cleveland, the only thing standing between…
At an event long ago, someone made the mistake of saying to Vince Lombardi, “Football is a contact sport.” The great coach fixed this naïf with a cold stare and said, “No. Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a…
Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson, the best-fielding third baseman in baseball history, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86. Robinson, whose career stretched from 1955, when he got into six games as an 18-year-old rookie, to 1977, when…
Got your fill of Coach Prime yet? If college football has had a face this season, it’s been the well-known mug of Deion Sanders, head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, albeit concealed behind reflective shades and hidden partially under a…
It felt almost fated and scripted as a way to please the gods of football. Had it been three or four games into the season, then maybe it would have been just “part of the game” as one of football’s…
Polling data confirm that Americans, in general, have a rather low opinion of their colleges and universities. They think they are too expensive and are turned off by the wokeness and arrogance of the administrators and faculty. Some data suggest…
Eating alone at a Bennigan’s restaurant in Steubenville, Ohio, on Tuesday evening, I couldn’t stop watching a sports event on one of the TV screens. That’s not unusual for me — that is, eating alone or watching sports. I typically…
