What You Can Learn From Golf
Maybe most importantly, golf teaches you how to be patient and how to overcome failure, something that is inevitable for everyone who has ever lived.
Sports
We All Wanted to Love the Women’s Soccer Team
For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever the sport, I have always rooted American. But if […]
Losing a Hometown Hero
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] PITTSBURGH—Baseball is always held up as a metaphor for […]
What If the Media Covered Sports Like They Cover Trump?
I don’t know one poll that suggested New England was going to have this kind of night,” said CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Nobody predicted this,” said […]
Samsung and LG are as Bad as the NFL
Americans recently were treated to the sight of muscle-bound millionaires taking a knee during the national anthem as a once-beloved institution—the NFL—refused to criticize or […]
Trump, the Classic Movies, and the NFL
Donald Trump’s mind has been furnished over the years mainly by the media, but perhaps not enough, for two iconic movies could have alerted him […]
The Tragic Incoherence of the NFL Protests
It has become a sort of reflex to object to the National Football League’s players’ bended knee/sitting through the National Anthem—while also conceding that their […]
Out with the ‘Ins’! In with the ‘Outs’!
It was a kick-in-the-gut moment for a lot of conservatives, and for a lot of normal people who just wanted some non-political space left in […]
Don’t Blame the Kneelers—Blame Those Who Brainwashed Them
The brouhaha over political demonstrations during the National Anthem makes me think of a scene from “Junior Bonner,” a 1972 Sam Peckinpah film about rodeo […]
Trump, Football, and Natural Right(s)
Sunday was a rough day for the NFL and for football fans. U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), never one to miss an opportunity to oppose […]
Trump Trumps the Ruling Class Again
Donald Trump is once again confounding his critics. He is holding fast to a common sense view of politics that puts his opponents on constant […]
The Rusher Who Wouldn’t Take the Knee
No law requires the playing of the National Anthem at the outset of professional sporting events. Also, no law requires people to stand when the […]
Kaepernick and Curry Pop the Sports Bubble
Who would have thought that Colin Kaepernick would actually do the nation a great service? He’s been a change agent alright, but not in the […]
Pigskin Doggerel
The (Football) Star-Mangled Banner (An Anthem With Offensive Lines) Oh, say, have you seen how your ratings have dropped? Seems your viewers don’t find grownup […]
Buskirk and Boychuk on the Germany Problem
American Greatness Managing Editor, Ben Boychuk joined Publisher, Chris Buskirk on his radio show to discuss the progress of the site and some of the […]
Colin Kaepernick and His Own Lady Macbeth
OK, I confess it. I love football. God help me, I love it so! I played in high school and college and I love the […]
In Defense of America’s Game
Every autumn, 4 million boys continue a tradition they share with their fathers, grandfathers and leather clad players of old. Football’s unique character and preeminent […]
Nate Silver and the Fetish of Data-Driven Journalism
“Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.” “Never tell me the odds!” ―C-3PO and Han Solo Yogi Berra famously threw […]
Key Play for Super Bowl: Deflate the Left’s Racist Rhetoric
A craze is breaking out all over America, but it’s not about Super Bowl LI in Houston. People are going absolutely crazy over “whiteness”—more specifically, […]
Deplorable NFL Can Find No Love in Hollywood
Poor Roger Goodell. After watching the final NFL wild card game of the weekend, the league honcho had reason to feel pretty upbeat as he […]