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I write a weekly book review for the Daily News of Galveston County. (It is not the biggest daily newspaper in Texas, but it is the oldest.) My review normally appears Wednesdays. When it appears, I post the review on Ricochet on the following Sunday. Seawriter More
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Recommended by R> Members As summer time looms, the countdown has begun to the next season of college football, and I and many Texas Tech alumni across the country look forward to the fall with hopeful anticipation. But I write today not of the gridiron, but of another sport revered by the Red Raider Nation: cheerleading. Here are some […]
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(At the risk of getting tossed off Ricochet, I must admit that the idea for this came from a Saturday Night Live skit.) STEVE HARVEY: Welcome to Celebrity Family Feud, Stanley Cup Edition! Our producers spent three hours this morning explaining to me what hockey is, so we’re committed to putting on a great show […]
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This is the team picture that was published in the Salina Journal when they ran a “50th Anniversary” article on the legendary Bennington Bulldogs, in 1979.
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ESPN has announced a massive round of layoffs today – over 100 people, many of them on-air talent – as the most expensive channel on cable television struggles to balance the books amid exploding sports licensing fees and plummeting cable subscriber numbers. But Outkick the Coverage (via National Review) notes that ESPN’s pronounced Leftward political lean may have played a large part in its current problems, too:
MoreMiddle America wants to pop a beer and listen to sports talk, they don’t want to be lectured about why Caitlyn Jenner is a hero, Michael Sam is the new Jackie Robinson of sports, and Colin Kaepernick is the Rosa Parks of football. ESPN made the mistake of trying to make liberal social media losers happy and as a result lost millions of viewers.
From PC Gamer: According to SuperData, there’s now a bigger audience for gaming video than the combined audiences of HBO, Netflix, ESPN, and Hulu. For reference, Netflix’s subscriber count is somewhere near 100 million, while Hulu maintains about 12 million. For better or for worse, PewDiePie alone has over 54 million YouTube subscribers. [….] More
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I am really glad you weren’t there, because I blew a gasket when the storied race director, 75-year-old Tennnesee “Tenn” K. Pace, asked me to pull down my pants.
With the encouragement of my college basketball coach, Al E. Oops, I had registered to compete in the women’s division of the Movement Marathon, a fund-raiser to promote O.I.C. awareness. I showed up for the race in a stunning hot pink singlet and fuschia shorts. Underneath, I wore my brand new JogBra and down below, an advanced prototype of the new Tuck-It-In® jockey strap developed by my director of transgender products research, R.N.D. Funding.
MoreI typically like my sports politics free. Especially on just meat & potatoes kind of stuff. Even though I’m political I don’t like talking politics ALL the time and when I watch entertainment (sports and otherwise) I don’t like having politics thrown in my face constantly. Sometimes it’s just nice to sit back, have a […]
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Donald Trump is going to make cheerleading great again. Proof? More
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Well, this years World Series will go the distance – a winner-take-all seventh game. Who do you think will win tonight’s game? More
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We are truly in the End Times. The Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians are in the World Series. More
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Two long suffering franchises will meet in this year’s World Series. The Cleveland Indians, who last won the Series in 1948 will face the Chicago Cubs who last won the World Series in 1908 and last appeared in the World Series way back in 1945, Below is a quick sketch of each team. More
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or any other sport that has had National Anthem protests? My gosh, this has even trickled down to grade school level! I find it hard to believe those kids did that all by themselves, don’t you? Well, are you? More
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How many columns did we see defending back-up quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s free speech rights for refusing to stand for the national anthem? Which, by the way, was something he did while at the “office.” A lot! Ok. Got it. More
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One of the core principles of the cultural left is dissatisfaction. Perhaps “destructiveness” would be a more apt term. It would be easy to characterize this dissatisfaction/destructiveness as merely objecting to the principles that made the United States a great nation. And, of course, there is much of that in left-leaning ideology. As I discussed […]
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For every great spectacle seen on television, there’s another great one that goes unseen – hundreds of unknown people like me toiling long hours to put programming onto your screens. Here’s a few snapshots from the recently concluded 116th U.S. Open Championship in the Pittsburgh suburb of Oakmont, Pennsylvania: More
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There’s a new-agey kind of trend in American professional sports, especially hockey, soccer, and women’s basketball, to name teams with words that have no plural form. Examples include the Miami Heat, the Orlando Magic, the Chicago Fire, Phoenix Mercury, Indiana Fever (?!), Seattle Storm, New York Liberty, and the Minnesota Wild. I don’t understand the reasons […]
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In mid-April I recounted to you the tale of being roped in to manage Xerox’s little league team. It was not a totally happy experience because, quite frankly, there are a lot of two-bit bullies out there and they seem to be drawn to youth sports like a magnet. Funny thing about magnets, though. They […]
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Sports in America is often considered one of our last great meritocracies. Perform well on the field, the diamond, the court, ring, or rink, and you’ll be rewarded. Anyone who has spent any time invested in team sport knows that isn’t necessarily true. More
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Someone sent me an amazing link that I want to share. More
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My dad was a huge Rams fan. He died in 1991 and I’m sure he would have been heartbroken after they moved to St. Louis. But now they’re coming back to L.A. and I’m seriously thinking of becoming a Rams fan (instead of remaining a lukewarm Chargers fan). I even googled “Los Angeles Rams gear” […]
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On the sunset of a pretty grim year, let’s have a little lightness, if you please. My father, who passed away when I was 21 (that was quite a while ago) once told me this story. He had read about it, I believe, in Sports Illustrated.
The story concerns Secretariat – arguably the greatest thoroughbred racehorse of all time. In 1973 he won the Triple Crown — the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont – along the way setting a Derby record of 1:59 2/5 (no other horse has bettered two minutes) and beating Twice a Prince by 31 lengths in the Belmont Stakes. He was, as one aficionado put it, instantly recognizable with his glistening chestnut coat, three white stockings and his regal bearing.
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A contemporary sports fan with a brain surveys the pro and college sports landscapes and is forced to consider, “is this really worth my time, money, and energy?”
MoreBoring. Uneventful. Overpriced. That was the general consensus, especially among casual viewers, of boxing’s recent super fight. Mayweather-Pacquiao generated 4.4 million PPV buys, shattering boxing’s previous records for viewership and gross earnings. Despite its runaway promotional and financial success, built on five years of hype and anticipation, most fans were extremely disappointed; the fight lacked […]
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