The two weeks between the NFL’s conference championship games and the Super Bowl are a unique kind of media overkill, a period where attention is at a maximum while activity is at a minimum. Predictably, this year the main subject of the glare is Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who last March was accused, for the [...]
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Go. . . Steelers?
February 4th, 2011 · No Comments · AR, Sports
Tags: Ben Roethlisberger·Charlie Sheen·fandom·football·Pittsburgh Steelers·Super Bowl
Trendsetting
February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Sports
Bill Maher had an excellent piece during the “New Rules” section of last week’s Real Time about how the popularity of the NFL, particularly relative to Major League Baseball, proves the merits of socialism over unrestrained capitalism. It’s such a good idea for a column, it makes me wish that I had thought of it. [...]
Tags: baseball·Bill Maher·Capitalism·football·NFL·self-promotion·socialism
Racism on the Redskins? Impossible!
November 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Sports
A column about who should be running the two-minute drill for the Washington Redskins may seem like an unusual jumping off point for a serious discussion about race, but this awful sports column for by awful sports columnist Rick Reilly* hits so many of the low notes of contemporary racial discourse that it’s worth examining. [...]
Tags: colorblindness·Donovan McNabb·implicit bias research·John Feinstein·Mike Shanahan·race·racial bias·racial coding·racism·Rex Grossman·Rick Reilly·Washington Redskins
What He Said
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Sports
From the very first words I had published on the Internet, I’ve tried to come up with clever ways to tie the world of sports to more important issues. Never have I been as successful as Bill Maher in this clip: -AR Update: The HBO police have taken the video off the web, but here’s [...]
Tags: Bill Maher·bleeding heartery·Brett Favre·Christine O'Donnell·Michelle Bachmann·Sarah Palin·white men
All Apologies
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics, Sports
This is a post that could easily be recycled every month or so whenever some famous person sticks his her foot and his or her mouth and then botches his or her apology. (And, given my recent inability to get myself to post more than once every other month, I probably need to write more [...]
Tags: apologies·Bob Marshall·Hannah Storm·Hiking the Appalachian Trail·I'm sorry if you were offended·Jim Bunning·Kate Harding·Kyle Turley·Mark Sanford·Ruth Bader Ginsburg·Tiger Woods·Tony Kornheiser
That Sounds About Right
November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Sports
What Fox News personality makes the most sense when talking about health care reform? This guy:
Republicans Have Issues With Metaphors, Bigger Issues With Reality
November 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics, Sports
The Republican health care protest on Capitol Hill yesterday can be summarized as follows: Democrats= Everything Bad, Republicans=Everything Good. Depending on who at the rally you believe, Obama and his supporters are either Maoists or Nazis. And after being told for 8 years that Muslims (sorry, Islamofascists) are the scariest thing ever, we learn that [...]
Tags: conservatives·crown jewels·health care·John Boehner·Mao·Michelle Bachmann·socialism·Super Bowl of Freedom·teabaggers