The Washington Commanders? Seriously? It probably wasn’t the worst of all the possible choices, but it sure seems to me that there’s only one possible response to the once-proud NFL team’s choice of a new nickname. Meh. So the former Washington Redskins, winners of three Super Bowls but essentially irrelevant in this century, have announced …
If I weren’t as old as I am, and if there weren’t other people I was responsible to, I would probably give up on the United States of America. I’m not sure where I would go. Canada always seems like the easy choice. In most of the country they speak the same language we do, …
‘Cause we’ll all stick together and you can take that to the bank. That’s the cowboys and the hippies and the Rebels and and the Yanks … If you’re familiar with the early 1980s, you might remember the Charlie Daniels Band and the song, “In America.” After all the division of the ’60s and into …
When it comes to protecting voting rights, it’s time. for Plan B. It’s apparent there will be no support for voting rights from Republicans, and without Senators Sinema and Manchin supporting a care-out in the filibuster, Democrats alone cannot get it done. So Mitch McConnell will hold sway at least for this year. So what …
Random musings for a winter Sunday afternoon: In a world of rapidly increasing weather disasters, it seems somehow silly to complain about the weather here, south of Atlatna, today. It isn’t a monsoon, a blizzard or a hurricane. The temperature isn’t 20 below zero and there are no tornados or tsunamis. It’s 35 degrees out …
If you’re looking for one of the most important rules of sports journalism, it’s that you cannot be a fan. It’s why after being a sportswriter from 1978 through the first part of 1996, it was probably 15 years before I could really cheer — even inwardly — for the teams I grew up following. …
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“Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” Who would have thought legendary football coach Vince Lombardi would turn out to be one of the great villains of modern American history? Too much? Maybe, but Lombardi’s quote has been used to justify all sorts of bad behavior in the name of winning, and the fact is …
It’s sort of funny. I was never really a fan of the Georgia Bulldogs, particularly in football. But if I had stayed in Anderson, S.C., for the 1984 football season, I would have had the opportunity to cover the beat. I didn’t, though, and Anderson ended up being a nine-month stay that separated a year …
Men don’t leave. Back in February 1990, when I was getting near the end of my 18 months living and working in Reno, an interesting movie came out starring Jessica Lange. It was called “Men Don’t Leave,” and it didn’t do all that much business. It was definitely quirky. Lange played a woman who had …
“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance, it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” Can …
