I wrote the following letter, dated June 10, 2024, to Jeanie Buss and Rob Pelinka, owner and general manager, respectively, of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball franchise. Dear Ms. Buss and Mr. Pelinka: I ask you to give serious consideration to...
Baseball, especially of the major league variety, can be boring (pitchers who take almost half a minute between throws to the plate), infuriating (batters intent on blasting home runs, strikeouts be damned) and alienating (Alex Rodriguez, for...
Considered one of the USA’s Tier 1 schools, along with the Ivies, top public universities such as Michigan, Texas, California, UCLA, Virginia and North Carolina, and prestigious private ones like Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, Chicago, Northwestern...
Historians and scholars generally agree that of America’s 45 presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt were the best. And the worst? The consensus seems to be, starting from the...
My final semester as a college student took place at Stephen F. Austin State University. I had gone to Nacogdoches in the hot summer of 1975 to escape the clutches of an overzealous female. I enrolled at the university that fall and took courses...
Since late November of last year, room 23 of the Yeoksam Livingtel has been my home. This red-brick edifice, located at 47 Bongeunsa-ro 30-gil, Gangnam-gu, is about a mile northeast of the Yesung Life Officetel, where I resided for more than 14...
Sixteen-plus years have passed since I moved to Korea, during which time I have traveled, read, studied, asked questions and cogitated about the country’s history and culture. Having done this, I submit that Kim Il-Sung came perilously...
As a freshman at the University of Texas (Fall 1971 and Spring 1972), my head was spinning. I had serious doubts about whether I could compete, academically and socially, and had no direction to speak of. In such a confused and insecure state, I...
Genealogy is something to which I have devoted little time or energy. But I know that before trekking southwest to Texas, the patrilineal side of my family had been in Kentucky and Tennessee. I also heard from one of the old folks that our...
The Camden Panthers have won the 2024 New Jersey Group 2 state basketball championship, beating Newark Arts High School by a score of 69-50. When those young men raised the trophy at Jersey Mike’s Arena on the Rutgers University campus, it would...
Three months after I graduated from the University of Texas (May 1976), a young man from the rough-and-tumble oil-patch town of Freer matriculated there. He would go on to much greater heights than I have. Steve McMichael—dubbed “Bam-Bam” by...
People who know boxing far better than I have mixed opinions about Tyson Fury. He has impassioned supporters and vociferous critics. I have seen a few of his fights (highlights, that is, on YouTube) and must say I like him. He has no tats, he...
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