Not a surprise. The NFL has been alienating a lot of viewers in recent years. And probably quite a few of those who tuned in yesterday at the outset ended up tuning out before it ended because the game was … Continue reading →
Again. They won away from home, in overtime, in a real nail-biter. I didn’t watch it—I’m just not a football fan, although sometimes I do tune in. I also know that a lot of people hate the Patriots. Not me. … Continue reading →
They deserved it. Exuberance:
Continue reading →…by far. And it felt even longer. Eighteen innings. Seven hours and twenty minutes. And strange: Maybe the best way to sum up the bizarre night at Dodger Stadium: Of the 50 players on both rosters, only four didn’t get … Continue reading →
They made it look easy.
Continue reading →It’s the Red Sox vs. the Dodgers, and it’s scheduled to start at 8:09 PM. But there may be a rain delay. The Sox won the Series in 1918 and then didn’t win it again till 2004. People who weren’t … Continue reading →
…are going to the World Series. I’m so old I remember when baseball players didn’t wear beards.
Continue reading →Victor Davis Hanson knows his classics, and the title of his latest article, “The Origins of Progressive Agony,” contains a word—agony—that English speakers usually take to mean “intense pain or suffering.” That is its first definition, but its second comes … Continue reading →
But they did it.
Continue reading →Although I don’t follow tennis as closely as I used to, I certainly heard and read about the big brouhaha at the US Open involving Serena’s being penalized by an umpire, and ultimately losing in the finals to relative newcomer … Continue reading →
Nike’s support of Colin Kaepernick has caused a drop in its stock prices. But Nike is all-in: In the crowded marketplace of athletic apparel, presumably Nike’s overnight transformation from selling an apolitical product to “woke sneakers” for the SJW set … Continue reading →
[Part I here.] I have come to conceptualize many of the people who are drawn most powerfully (and obsessively) to these extreme activities this way: they don’t want to live without them. And for some of the most extreme practitioners, … Continue reading →