You all remember the stir I created eight years ago when I wrote a blog for SwimSwam claiming I was the best athlete ever to come out of Little Flower School in Bethesda, Maryland – not Katie Ledecky. There was an uproar so intense in the comments section under that blog and I still haven’t […]
People are getting rejected, turned away, and maligned all around America these days and it’s an unsettling trend that needs to be confronted. Caitlin Clark got left off the U.S. Olympics hoops team. Joey Chestnut is being blocked from participating in this summer’s hot dog eating contest stuffed down our throats by Nathan’s Hot Dogs. […]
Dear John Williams – I remember back in high school when we were closer friends than we are now, sitting around talking about our high school basketball battles, Gonzaga against St. John’s when you shifted the focus and decided you wanted to share a quote that moved you in one of your high school classes. […]
Do any of us really know what it’s like to wake up each morning and know that people are talking about you around the world, about your looks, about your sexuality, about your race, about how many turnovers you had last night? Does anyone really know what it’s like to enter a profession, to realize […]
Everybody, listen to me right now. Nothing is as important – not Caitlin Clark, not the Joker, not Wake Forest football, not anything anywhere in America or the other six continents – as what’s going to be firing off in two days at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. In two days, it all begins, the […]
A year or so ago I saw Jerry West interviewed about a book he wrote about his life. He said it was about his troubled childhood when his father physically abused him and his mother. He wrote about his long-standing struggles with mental illness. Because of the sensitivity of the subject matter, his family didn’t […]
There are so many things I don’t like about Sammy Sportface that this framework of listing the top 10 worst things about him feels far too confining and incomplete. The guy has no friends. Wolfford doesn’t like him. Whit can’t stand him. Headrow has had more than enough of all things Sammy Sportface. And Rudy […]