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Remarkably, Manti Te’o’s improbable tale about his imaginary girlfriend dying of cancer on the same day his grandmother died last September is competing for media coverage with Lance Armstrong’s belated confession about taking performance-enhancing drugs (PEDS). Te’o is the All-American linebacker from Notre Dame whose tale of personal tragedy became even more of an inspiration… Read more.
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Folks, let me make this perfectly clear: Lance Armstrong confessing that he’s a doper is about as newsworthy as Jodie Foster admitting that she’s gay. But I know enough about the television news business to know that getting the first confessional interview with this disgraced cyclist was probably even more coveted than getting the first… Read more.
The Times of London is to the United Kingdom what the New York Times is to the United States: the de facto national newspaper of record. Therefore, when the Sunday edition of the Times of London published a lengthy article – salaciously headlined “The Full Filthy Monte” – on the antics of Prince Albert’s reluctant… Read more.
In a culture where the latest goings-on in entertainment, sports, or reality-TV are more often than not the topic of engaging conversations, any discussion about the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, is decidedly refreshing. You too will get an appreciation of this by eschewing the public debate now raging over whether Ben… Read more.
Given all of President Obama’s political rhetoric about gender equality and diversity, you’d think this would be a very progressive and transformative portrait. But it’s not. (“Women Complain about Obama’s All-Boys Club,” The iPINIONS Journal, September 21, 2011) This, in part, is how I lamented the portrait acclaimed journalist Ron Suskind painted in his book,… Read more.
January 9 looms as a day of reckoning for Baseball (i.e., a referendum on steroids in Baseball). Candidates must be retired for at least five years and need 75 percent of the votes to be inducted. More to the point, members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BWAA) will either vote based solely on… Read more.
We are a doomed civilization. Only that can explain why news about pop star Taylor Swift breaking up with her latest trophy boyfriend competes with breaking news about NFL football. Taylor’s swift break-up Her latest hookup was with Harry Styles, the Mick Jagger wannabe from the British boy band One Direction (aka 1D). It lasted only 65 days, which… Read more.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’m a Philadelphia Eagles fan. But it would be gauche for anyone like me who works in Washington, DC not to be a Redskins fan – if only by default (i.e., as long as their success has no adverse impact on that of my team). Of course most of… Read more.
