Shocked and Disappointed

Shocked and Disappointed

In the spirit of the holiday season I have a gift for you: a freshly minted Herman Cain joke. Q: Mr. Cain, what about Libya? A: I never laid a hand on her. But life isn’t all jokes and foolishness. It just seems that way when you’re dealing with politics....
Free the College Football Market

Free the College Football Market

The burlesque show that is college football has gone about as far as it can go. Each fall it arrives clothed in garments of academic integrity (the players are scholar-athletes, don’t you know) only to peel them off one at a time as the year goes on. This year...
Injustice Department

Injustice Department

It isn’t so much that I’m against balancing the budget. It’s that I think firing public employees is a lousy way to create jobs. I’ll say this for that strategy though: it beats throwing grandma from the train, which is the other big...

The Big Score in this Year’s Super Bowl

For me, the most significant statistic coming out of this year’s Super Bowl wasn’t the 31-25 score in the Green Bay Packers’ hard-fought victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nor was it the $1.3 billion cost of the new, monstrously huge football...

All Women Deserve a Sporting Chance

Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the law prohibiting discrimination in educational programs receiving federal tax dollars, including sports. Every year, the Secretary of Education and countless women’s organizations commemorate the...