Degenerate sports gambling is good for the soul
The morality police don’t understand why people bet on football
Football
Tuesday
Saturday
Politics should be more like fantasy football
Government should be small and entertaining — with the ability to bench and cut congressmen, of course
Thursday
Tom Brady’s transgressive excellence
The GOAT couldn’t have cared less what you thought of his avocado ice cream
Monday
Pro sports can lead us out of pandemic insanity
Let asymptomatic sportsmen play
Thursday
The NFL bends the knee to China
The league lectures Americans but cave to authoritarians abroad
Friday
Cheers to drunk politicians
Michigan’s attorney general shouldn’t apologize for having too much fun
Monday
The media’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ lunacy
CNN commentators are having their Xi-Winnie the Pooh moment
Saturday
College football is confounding COVID anxiety
Dr Fauci and his media acolytes should drop the sports agony for now
Wednesday
Urban Meyer and our DIY surveillance state
A coach is humiliated for behaving badly, but maybe not every lout should be caught
Tuesday
Jon Gruden exposes the NFL’s woke hypocrisy
Was the league’s commissioner behind the leak?
Thursday
In defense of brilliant idiot athletes
Conservatives furious over their dumb political opinions should sit back and appreciate what they’re good at
Wednesday
What’s in a name?
I pour myself a tumbler of rotgut and settle in with the names, these glorious names
Thursday
Let’s show vaccine passports for football fans the red card
As I’ve written before, the thing I’ve missed the most in the past 12 months is going to see QPR with my son Charlie. So I’m alarmed about the prospect of having to produce a ‘Covid status certificate’ every time I want to go to a game. That was the advice in a recent letter signed by various sporting panjandrums and I fear it will also be the recommendation of the taskforce set up by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to look into reopening sports venues. The first and most obvious objection is that it’s a breach of my liberty. It’s an inversion of the Common Law principle
