More people are set to gamble on Super Bowl LVI than on any of the previous 55 Super Bowls. It is estimated 31.5 million Americans will lay down over $7.6 billion on Sunday’s big game, up 35 percent and 78…
Their names are household names even in households that don’t know a split end from, well, a split end (follically speaking). Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Baker Mayfield, Patrick Mahomes, Eli Manning, and Peyton Manning do not pitch sandwiches,…
We just watched Leonardo da Vinci in cleats. Tom Brady ranks as the greatest player in the history of the National Football League, and kind fate allowed us all to witness it. Perhaps more accurately, given the specialization inherent in…
Washington What did you do Sunday evening? I watched the gaudiest pageant ever performed on television, interspersed with a football game. The football game was a serious — dare I say? — dignified adult entertainment. Yet what came with it…
Americans have a handful of sacred holidays. Independence Day commemorates the founding of the country, Thanksgiving reminds us to show gratitude for the blessings of this land, and the Super Bowl brings Americans together to revel in being American. The…
I have to come clean. I’ve been a New England sports fan my whole life, but this football season has been different. Not just because of COVID-19, but because I’m one of the thousands of New Englanders who have been…
Last week in his morning newsletter, American Spectator writer Daniel J. Flynn summed up the Trump years in a single paragraph. He ended it with these words: Republicans evolved from invertebrates to vertebrates in the past four years. Donald Trump…
The other day, my 10-month-old daughter punched a unicorn in the face. Her mother was playing with her in the nursery with some stuffed animals. Anj held up the horned toy. My daughter grinned at it, giggled, and got it…
It was not Colin Kaepernick and his knee alone that drove me from the NFL. Rather, as I have written on these pages going back to September 2017, I awaited the league’s response to that useless ingrate’s treachery. One rogue…