Whatever Happened to Protecting Yourself in Sports? Josh Allen got knocked out of the Buffalo Bills' Week 4 game against the New England Patriots because he did not protect himself. Jonathan Jones crushed him with a hit where the initial point of contact was the head--and the fault was not Jones'. Jones did his job; [...]
The Straight Pride Parade Brought Out the Dumbest of the Dumb The Straight Pride Parade occurred this past weekend in Boston. If you did not know the Straight Pride Parade was a thing, you are in the majority. At one point--roughly an hour or so into the affair--20 people were present and a handful of [...]
Bill Belichick the GM is a Meritocratic Absolutist Former Second-Round pick of the New England Patriots, Duke Dawson, is no longer a New England Patriot. Bill Belichick the GM shipped him off to the Denver Broncos for a bag of peanuts. With yet another supposed "second-round bust," the delusional soldiers of the "Belichick Can't Draft" [...]
How the Dave Chappelle Sticks and Stones Special Kills the Critics Before the Chappelle Show skyrocketed him to the top tier of comedians, and just after the cult classic Half Baked made everybody yearn for a friend like Abba-Zaba, Dave Chappelle was Killin' Them Softly. The uproariously funny set featured completely inappropriate jokes: an imitation of [...]
Enes Kanter Refuses to Bow to Erdogan or Anyone When the founding fathers of America threw tea into the Boston Harbor and aimed their muskets at Redcoats, it was to protest unjust rule. Rule by a monarch who the colonists thought overstepped his power through the levying of taxes and other perceived injustices. When compared [...]
Jewish Gun Rights Are More Important Than Ever America and the Second Amendment were made for Jewish people. Jewish history is replete with examples of Jews dying at the hands of their fellow citizens and in governmental, systematic attempts to wipe them out. It is for this reason Jewish gun rights should be celebrated. Instead, [...]
How More Information Leads to the Death of Research There is simply too much information. It is all available in the pocket of our hands. Just a couple of strokes on the keyboard or a few taps on the phone and, boom, you have the answer to any question on your mind. But this comes [...]
There is Nothing Like Sport Injuries to Set Your Mind Right Sport injuries suck. Pull a hamstring? Learn a new way to walk for a couple of weeks. Sprain an ankle? Never get back to 100%... EVER! Snap a bone in your arm, lacerate your face to the tune of 20 stitches, tear a ligament. [...]
True Competitors, True Athletes Know Athletic Competition Erases all Prejudice Every so often I wade into the online battlefield of Twitter and find myself under fire against charges of racism, sexism, and transphobia. I think Colin Kaepernick was a middling quarterback and is either a woefully ignorant person or a devious hack who holds hypocritical [...]
Jonathan Lucroy Commits the Gravest of Catcher Sins so Jake Marisnick Gets Suspended Baseball is slowly shedding the fundamentals that made it such a fun game to watch for more than a century. First, it was the erosion of the sacrifice bunt. Second, came the sudden disappearance of its cousin, the sacrifice fly. Now we [...]
