Sports

Super Bowl Ads: Humor and Celebrities

Thank you, thank you, thank you, as Joe Biden often says. It looks like the advertisers during the Super Bowl game will run commercials that concentrate on fun and warm feelings, not woke virtue-signaling. I don’t know about you, but the commercials are often the best part of the Super Bowl for me. I usually […]

The Big Scrum: Football Über Alles!

“Of all these sports,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote in 1893, “there is no better sport than football.” As in many things, TR was on the cutting edge of cultural opinion in the United States, as it was about to takes its place among the powers of the world. That he too often conflated football and world […]

Is This the Worst Team Ever?

Throughout the annals of NBA history, there have been a handful of teams that have vied for the ignominious title of “worst team of all time.” From 1992 to 1994, the then-awful Dallas Mavericks won all of 24 games total — a win total that would mark a single season an abject failure, let alone […]

‘Which String Are They Going to Pull Next?’

For many Americans — whether we speak openly of it or not — 2024 feels ominous. In an interview with Tucker Carlson posted Wednesday to X, mixed martial artist Colby Covington — currently ranked fifth in the UFC welterweight division — spoke openly about the establishment either rigging the 2024 presidential election or resorting to […]