From the Uighurs to Peng Shuai, the World Must Boycott the Beijing Olympics Sports are the great unifier. When somebody steps into an athletic arena, all the politics of the day wash aside and the scoreboard becomes the great arbiter of who is better and who is worse. No longer does it matter where you were [...]
Sports are a Unifier, Which is Why Politics in Sports is so Troublesome Sports are not supposed to be political. Yes, there are times when sports get political, and there are even times when sports must get political, but when you constantly inject politics into sports you are doing a disservice to the nation. Sports are [...]
Mark Cuban Loves Money, Gets Dunked on by Ted Cruz If you had Ted Cruz and Mark Cuban get into a Twitter battle on your 2020 Bingo Card, mark it down. The senator from Texas and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks are in the midst of a Twitter war over Cuban's refusal to condemn [...]
How Adam Silver, Gregg Popovich, and Steve Kerr Highlight NBA Hypocrisy Last year, Marc Lacey asked Adam Silver, "how does it feel to be the wokest professional sports league?" Silver responded simply, "...we're proud of that." It was a dumb, leading question at the time, and Silver's answer has aged like warm milk. The league [...]
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 [...]
