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Will O'Toole
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May 18, 2025
Ted Williams Was So Much More Than That Magical .400Yes, he was one of the greatest players ever, but he was also a man of patriotism, dignity, and honor.
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April 27, 2025
Shedeur Sander’s fall from graceThe reason behind his unexpected draft debacle may have nothing to do with Shedeur himself.
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November 23, 2024
The Army-Notre Dame Clash Has Some Incredible Sports History Behind ItFor the first time since the 1940s, these two teams are once again league powerhouses as they face off against each other.
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November 19, 2024
Honoring The Passing Of Two Great College Football CoachesNeither John Robinson nor Gerry Faust was ever the GOAT, but each was a solid, dedicated coach and, as a role model for young men, a good person.
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November 4, 2024
An illustrated edition with brilliant election and squirrel memesWe have so many cartoons, both election cartoons from our usual wonderful sources and squirrel and raccoon cartoons about Big Government, that they needed their own post.
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October 27, 2024
As the Dodgers play the Series, thinking back to their tolerant glory daysThis post isn’t about the baseball glory days. It’s about the days when the Dodgers were famed for racial and religious tolerance.
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October 18, 2024
Army and Navy are having an amazing football seasonThe extraordinary seasons Army and Navy have enjoyed so far are a reminder of both college football's glory days and the big changes ahead.
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October 8, 2024
Pete Rose, an extraordinary player and a damaged human beingOne of the greatest baseball players of all time tarnished himself and never fully understood what he’d done wrong.
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October 5, 2024
Charles O. Finley, the dynamo behind the Oakland A’s glory yearsHe was a difficult man but also a brilliant one, and he deserves to be remembered as the A’s leave their long-time Oakland home.
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September 23, 2024
In 1962, being the worst in baseball was no bad thingWhen you compare the 1962 Mets to the 2024 White Sox, there’s a world of difference between the two teams despite their similarly dismal performances.
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July 29, 2024
Rick Monday: The Baseball Player Who Saved Our FlagWatching the pro-Hamas mob desecrate the American flag was deeply disturbing, but it’s not the first time—and one MLB player wasn’t going to stand for it the last time.
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July 21, 2024
The Astrodome Was A Stadium Viewed As The Eighth Wonder Of The WorldIt was theoretically perfect, but the 1968 All-Star game it produced was not.
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August 15, 2023
Baseball once started with the children and ended with the adultsNow, a glamorized Little League requires a whole community, starting with the government and made possible thanks solely to adults doing the organizing.
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April 16, 2023
The hidden hypocrisy behind upcoming changes in the PAC 12As UCLA and USC eye a new conference venue, California’s leftists are surprisingly quiet about something that should upset them a lot.
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March 19, 2023
It’s Time To Sit Back And Enjoy The Magic Of The NCAA TournamentThis is one of the last bastions of pure athleticism in America, untainted by politics and wokeness.
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February 19, 2023
We lost two great sports broadcasters in FebruaryTim McCarver and Billy Packer knew what they were talking about and were always interesting, entertaining, and respectful of both cohosts and fans.
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December 30, 2022
Rutgers’ Scarlet Knights are both bad and brokeEven in a dismal year for college bowl games, the Rutgers athletic department was unable to wrangle its taxpayer-supported team into one of those bowls.
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December 22, 2022
Franco's Army has lost its generalOne of America’s greatest footballers passed away right before the anniversary of his historic play.
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September 25, 2022
There’s a lot of excitement about Aaron Judge’s home runsHowever, when one looks at the big picture, that excitement may be more focused on erasing the past than on celebrating a great player.
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August 28, 2022
The professionalization of college footballMore than likely college football will never be an “amateur” sport again. The college football season begins this weekend in the wake of a monumental restructuring of the competitive landscape.
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August 1, 2022
America's greatest winnerBy any metric, Bill Russell was the greatest winner in American sports history.
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July 16, 2022
There's a group of Americans that deserves the Medal of FreedomEven as that group is regularly ignored, Biden has accorded that honor to one of the greatest vulgarians in American sports.
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May 30, 2022
On Memorial Day, remembering the baseball players who served in VietnamUnlike World War II, men with connections could avoid service in Vietnam — but a handful of baseball players refused to take that path.
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March 28, 2022
Cinderella team St. Peter's and its BLM shirts bomb out of March MadnessIn the end, the glass slipper gave Cinderella a nasty blister.
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March 23, 2022
Wheels, women, and watchabilityWhen it comes to March Madness, don't follow the equity. Follow the money.
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January 27, 2022
The woke war on Curt SchillingWhen you look at this baseball great's extraordinary record, there can be only one reason he's not in the Hall of Fame.
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December 30, 2021
With John Madden's passing, football lost one of its greatsBecause Madden was such a character, it was easy to forget how extremely successful he was in both his careers.
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May 10, 2021
Willie Mays: Still 'a-Mays-zing' at 90He's not merely one of the greatest baseball players ever. He's a class act.
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January 4, 2021
The National Antifa Soccer League: The idea gets an ideaThere's nothing wrong with a radical anarchist group forming a soccer league, but it does raise a lot of questions about how they're going to run it.
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September 17, 2020
Big East Catholic schools sew BLM patches on players' uniformsNo black American law enforcement officers murdered in the line of duty this year were mentioned.
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December 7, 2019
Notre Dame and the Curse of the PeacockNotice one school missing from the playoffs discussion?
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October 31, 2019
Paying college athletes opens up Pandora's boxStudent-athletes might be disappointed if they become university employees.
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July 9, 2019
Baseball Fans Choose WiselyMaybe there is something intuitively fair about baseball fans that transcends all other levels and segments of our culture and society.