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Serena, the GOAT, Becomes the Sacrificial Lamb On Tuesday, Serena Williams lost in the first round to 115th-ranked Harmony Tan 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7). If ever there were a case of the GOAT looking like a sacrificial lamb, this was it. It was the 21st time that Serena Williams has played Wimbledon. It was Harmony Tan’s first… Read more.
Coach and player in master-slave relationship For years, I have been decrying the master-slave relationship between coaches like Nick Saban of Alabama and his football players. I’ve always believed that colleges should pay players. In this regard, I refer you to commentaries like “Reggie Bush Forfeits Heisman Trophy” on September 16, 2010, and “Salaries of College Coaches Reflect Enduring Master-Slave Relationships”… Read more.
Sunday’s race made clear that any hope Lewis Hamilton had of winning his eighth Formula One title this year is already up in smoke. The Daily Mail reported on his ongoing frustrations and epic falling from grace on Sunday as follows: ________ Lewis Hamilton has given up on his hopes of winning the 2022 Formula… Read more.
The South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the UConn Huskies last night to win the NCAA women’s national championship. And South Carolina did so with relative ease, winning 64-49. Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournament as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” inherent in low-seeded… Read more.
Baseball might be as American as apple pie. But greed is as deep as a bottomless pit. That is the only explanation for subjecting fans to another baseball lockout. Baseball is already the least popular among America’s major professional sports. Not least because it is so intrinsically boring that Tiger Woods made even golf more… Read more.
Findings of doping finally moved Kentucky racing officials to strip Medina Spirit of last year’s win in the Kentucky Derby and suspend its famous trainer Bob Baffert. Unfortunately, the only news is that the punishment was so lenient. Because here in part is what I wrote in “Baffert ‘Baffled’ as Doping Dogs Derby Winner. Ha!”… Read more.
The Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI on Sunday. The suspenseful game ended with a fourth down stop by the Rams to win it all. The Rams controlled much of the first half, with receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Cooper Kupp scoring the first two touchdowns of the day. The Bengals answered back… Read more.
Russia state-sanctioned doping That Russia runs a state-sanctioned doping program to enhance the performance of its athletes is an open secret. I decried this phenomenon in the blog post “In Putin’s Russia Even Athletics Is a Criminal (Doping) Enterprise” on November 9, 2015. Therefore, nobody should be surprised that Kamila Valieva has the women’s figure skating competition embroiled… Read more.
China has spent much of the past five years jailing Hong Kongers for demanding democratic freedoms. The government considers such demands seditious challenges to its authoritarian rule. Mind you, those Hong Kongers were merely demanding freedoms China promised. This, as part of the infamous “one country, two systems policy” colonial Britain negotiated as a condition… Read more.
In a stunning result, Michaela Shiffrin failed to successfully navigate more than a handful of turns in Wednesday’s women’s slalom and was disqualified from her second race this week at the Beijing Olympics. Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion who was expected to contend for multiple gold medals at Beijing, had trouble in her run almost… Read more.
