Women’s basketball should dispel the tired platitude that the world would be a much kinder place if women ran it. I just watched yet another video of WNBA player Caitlin Clark on the receiving end of inappropriately violent behavior during a game. This time, Clark’s team, the Indiana ...
After Israel took out at least two of Iran’s top scientists behind the development of nuclear weapons (and promised to kill more), my high school fight song came to mind. At football games after a touchdown we sang, “Hit ‘em hard and hit ‘em again. Show ‘em now that we’re gonna ...
The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and the rule of law. None of ...
While waiting for the House v. NCAA settlement to conclude, I, like many other college football fans, had to finally accept that the amateurism model, in place for over a century, has come to an end. The settlement ruling, which has been five years in the making, results from the 2020 ...
It’s not that I don’t remember my father complaining. Because, oh, he did plenty of that. He complained about how there were too many lights on in the house, how we hadn’t eaten all our food, how the door was still open or how we’d turned the heat up too high. He complained that our ...
About a week after my column on the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death was published, I received a vile email from a reader. I’ve been doing opinion writing long enough to know that ad hominem attacks are par for the course in this business, especially in our ever-present digital ...