Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer’s fall from grace
It was both acute and irreversible
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
June 18, 2022
Little league keeps me sane
Just good old American tradition
June 13, 2022
The NFL woke show marches on
The Washington Commanders fine Jack Del Rio $100,000 for a political opinion
May 6, 2022
Having fun again on Derby Day
The Kentucky Derby is the perfect fix for our social media gloominess
March 27, 2022
What it’s really like to play sports against men
There was simply no question they had a major advantage
March 22, 2022
Lia Thomas doesn’t deserve our compassion
The only way to ensure fair competition is for biological men and women to compete in separate categories
February 20, 2022
China’s Olympic propaganda show ends in global shame
The Russian doping committee set Beijing on fire
February 12, 2022
Politics should be more like fantasy football
Government should be small and entertaining — with the ability to bench and cut congressmen, of course
February 10, 2022
The twisted love affair with Eileen Gu
She’s the pretty face of CCP propaganda, so why is the American media carrying her water?
February 8, 2022
Our media helps China hush up the Peng Shuai scandal
Why are they repeating Communist Party talking points over a coerced interview confession?
February 7, 2022
Drinking your way through the Chinese Olympics
Bottoms up for every reference to bats, pangolins and wet markets
February 4, 2022
Pelosi to Winter Olympians: shut up and dribble
Free speech is on ice in Beijing
February 3, 2022
Tom Brady’s transgressive excellence
The GOAT couldn’t have cared less what you thought of his avocado ice cream
No love for the gays at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Grindr has been pulled from Chinese app stores ahead of the Games
February 2, 2022
The Washington Redskins have a new name
They’re the Washington Commanders now — but love it or hate it, the biggest problem is still their owner
January 7, 2022
Release Novak Djokovic
End vaccine mandates for healthy athletes
December 20, 2021
Pro sports can lead us out of pandemic insanity
Let asymptomatic sportsmen play
December 16, 2021
The NFL bends the knee to China
The league lectures Americans but cave to authoritarians abroad
October 24, 2021
How to save golf
We can keep what’s best about the game while making it more sustainable and egalitarian
October 23, 2021
College football is confounding COVID anxiety
Dr Fauci and his media acolytes should drop the sports agony for now
October 21, 2021
The player exposing the NBA’s hypocrisy on China
Enes Kanter’s pro-Tibet protest is making people very uncomfortable
October 13, 2021
Urban Meyer and our DIY surveillance state
A coach is humiliated for behaving badly, but maybe not every lout should be caught
October 12, 2021
Jon Gruden exposes the NFL’s woke hypocrisy
Was the league’s commissioner behind the leak?
October 1, 2021
NBA players blow up the media’s anti-vaxxer stereotypes
Division is the lingua franca of the national media — and Jonathan Isaac isn’t speaking it
September 15, 2021
What’s in a name?
I pour myself a tumbler of rotgut and settle in with the names, these glorious names
August 5, 2021
Guy Verhofstadt claims Olympic gold for the EU
The former chief Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament has done the math to prove EU dominance
July 27, 2021
Simone Biles is a quitter
Even with her many mistakes during the qualifying round, Biles still posted the highest score in the competition
July 26, 2021
Trouble for the US at the Woke-yo Olympics
Should US athletes spend more time practicing and less time protesting?
July 23, 2021
The racist Cleveland Guardians baseball team must be renamed
Is it really appropriate for Cleveland to honor these imperialistic statues of cis white men?
