I would like to posit what I thought should have been an obvious rule: if Dr. James Andrews has to be flown in to supervise your star player on the sideline, he shouldn’t be playing. Even as a Seahawks fan, that fumble/injury was hard to watch, and it couldn’t have been more foreseeable. I have […]
Year: 2013
Michael Savage is thinking just as hard as he can: “We need a nationalist party in the United States of America,” said Savage on Aaron Klein’s WABC radio show. “You have the rudiments
The Worst Commissioner Ever has prudently decided not to entirely destroy his league. A cancelled season would have been an utter disaster, but the short schedule is actually OK (although the lack
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: “Data is the plural of anecdotes that don’t even prove my point.” …then, of course, there’s this kind of anecdotal evidence.
I’m not sure why, but the fact that this weekend saw the release of yet another pointless remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre struck me as a particularly striking example of Hollywood creative
I’ve heard of inter-service conflict, but… In 1987, while flying off the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, a Lt. j.g. Timothy W. Dorsey fired a missile at an Air Force F-4 reconnaissance je
Bengals (+4) over Texans: I wouldn’t read all that much into Houston’s late slump in itself. But I do think that the improved play of the Bengals is meaningful, since their defense has gotten better as it’s gotten healthier. The teams ended up as nearly even in point differential, and while Schaub is mildly better […]
Since there seems to be some interest in it, I’d like to clarify a few things about what exactly my position is on various weight and health-related matters. (1) Obesity does correlate with some
This gets it right. Tyler Kepner’s piece a couple months ago about drug warrior sportswriters contained a very revealing quote: “In each of those areas, players who used steroids fail the test
Kevin Drum’s new article about crime and leaded gasoline is a must-read: Put all this together and you have an astonishing body of evidence. We now have studies at the international level, the national level, the state level, the city level, and even the individual level. Groups of children have been followed from the womb […]
My latest at the Diplomat talks up, well, diplomacy: A report emerged over the weekend that the United States may have inadvertently green-lit the 1982 Falklands War by sending overly positive signal
Last night’s victory was bittersweet for two reasons. It was hard to shake the sense that even a 12-1 season with a Fiesta Bowl victory was a disappointment, especially given how close the Ducks