Check out Ashawnta Jackson’s piece at JSTOR Daily: In 1968, students from South Carolina State College, a historically Black college in Orangeburg, attempted to enter a segregated bowling alley in town. The alley was closed by police for the night. […]
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Nick Saban rips on “self absorbed” Alabama fans
In case you haven’t seen this yet: Saban is probably right. But as far as “self-absorption” in college sports is concerned, I think there is enough to go around right now.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar blasts Aaron Rodgers
The hoops legend pulls no punches on the former Cal-Berkeley student: Professional athletes have come so far from the dark days when the public saw them as perpetually partying adolescents, mean-spirited bullies, and worse: dim-wits one step above tackling dummies […]
A 1991 Heisman trophy candidate will teach you biblical Hebrew
Some of us remember David Klinger. He was a Heisman Trophy candidate 1991 as the quarterback at the University of Houston: He now teaches Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary. Here is Kelly Dearmore at Texas Monthly: During the offseason […]
Introducing the Cleveland Guardians
The Indians have changed their name. Here is Tom Hanks: Why Tom Hanks?
I’ve been watching baseball for nearly half a century and I’ve never seen such a bad play
I don’t know what happened to Pittsburgh Pirates’s first baseman Will Craig’s brain on this play. THERE WERE TWO OUTS! JUST STEP ON FIRST BASE!! Watch: Did I mention that the Mets were in first place in the NL East?