NFL ratings are plummeting. Last week I asked if the NFL divisional playoff ratings would be a dud. They were. The games in every time slot suffered ratings losses compared to last year. If you run these declining numbers out a few years, it’s easy to see why Roger Goodell & Co. should be hitting […]
Do You Know NFL Hitman James Harrison?
When the Pittsburgh Steelers cut NFL linebacker James Harrison mid-season, the New England Patriots signed him faster than you can shout “blitz!” Prior to the season Men’s Journal spent a few days in Scottsdale, AZ while Mr. Harrison recovered from surgery. As the NFL’s most heavily fined player in a single season, he’s the type […]
Will NFL Playoff Weekend be Another Dud?
I was talking to a client yesterday who is a lifetime NFL season ticket holder. He told me he’s not even excited about the playoffs, and hasn’t been watching much football this season. He said he’s fed up with the lack of respect for the national anthem. Yes, this is anecdotal evidence but it matches […]
Winter Olympics: How Good is Michaela Shiffrin?
How good is skier Michaela Shiffrin? “I think she’s maybe the best ski racer I’ve ever seen, male or female,” two-time World Cup champion Bode Miller told reporters. Over the weekend the 22-year old claimed her 39th and 40th World Cup wins. The time it took for Shiffrin to reach her 39th win compared to […]
Belichick, Brady, Kraft — Patriots Serious Disagreements
Bill Belichick (coach), Tom Brady (quarterback) and Robert Kraft (owner) differ on Brady’s trainer, body coach, business partner Alex Guerrero. According to Seth Wickersham at ESPN: THE CRACKS FIRST revealed themselves in early September. The season had just started, and Guerrero was once again becoming an issue in the Patriots’ building, just weeks before the release […]
What’s up with Boston Bruin’s Goaltender Tuukka Rask?
If I had to describe the Boston Bruin’s early season struggles it would be “injuries and youth.” But, the one area where there should be stability and senior leadership is in the position of goaltender. That has certainly not been the case with the lack of performance from veteran goaltender Tuukka Rask. The Boston Globe’s Fluto […]
Nescient Millionaire 20-Somethings’ Moral Superiority
What do the NFL, ESPN and higher-education administrative cadre have in common? Exhaustion, writes Victor Davis Hanson. They all have forgotten their original mission: respectively, athleticism; sports commentary; and inductive thinking, civic education, and disinterested inquiry. Instead, given their money and adulation, sports and colleges puffed themselves up as Olympians who from high could sermonize […]
NCAA Scandal: ‘Stop the Sham and Pay the Players’
Simply stop the sham and pay the players says the Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro. Shapiro is a senior fellow in Constitutional Studies at Cato, and believes that simply paying college players would be better than sticking them in the money generating scheme they endure today. The players are the talent. Ignoring that will only lead […]
How the NFL Shows Its Colors
Exactly what are the NFL players protesting when kneeling during the playing of our National Anthem? “At the start, the protest was explicitly directed at purportedly institutional racism in the nation’s police departments, which had supposedly led to an epidemic of police violence against black men,” explains Andrew McCarthy in NRO. McCarthy goes on to […]
The NFL Fan Base Will Dissipate
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan writes that the NFL conflict is a mirror for the current divide in America. Pat called Sunday a sad day for NFL players, coaches, commentators, owners and fans. He also says it’s going to get worse. He continues (abridged): The culture war has come to the NFL. And Trump […]
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