When I think of the “presidential alert system,” I always ask myself, why? Under what circumstance would Free Men in a Free Constitutional Republic endure the service of interruption by one select branch of the federal government?
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Are MLB Managers Worth $8 Million?
Of all top-tier professional coaching jobs, the most irrelevant may be that of the Major League Baseball manager.
Read morePrediction: Bears/Vikings Week 12 Will Be Booted from Primetime
Watching yesterday’s ESPN Monday Night Football made me realize that watching one slightly above average team against a very mediocre team gets stale after over two hours of missed and dropped passes.
What happens to MNF ratings when an outright horrible football team is slotted for late-season primetime?
Read moreChicago Bears: Tyson Bagent Heralds End of Trubisky Dynasty
Sports dynasties are enshrined by lengthy runs of success cumulating in championships. In the warped world of the Chicago Bears,, dynasties are noted by certain trendy attempts to get out of their post-1985 rut.
Read moreChicago Bears: The Major Changes Over the Next Five Months
A month and change is all that’s needed to know the rest of the Chicago Bears 2023 season will be an elaborate waiting game for 2024. General manager Ryan Poles will get his obligatory second chance.
Read moreChicago Bears: Four Quarters of Garbage Time
Don’t be fooled by a faux stellar first half against the Denver Broncos – there is no hope for the 2023 Chicago Bears.
Read moreChicago Bears: Save the Doom Until After Week 3
I included this image with an article on my prior blog about the NFL’s March hype madness. Seems fitting to revisit the Bears after their Week 1 disaster against the Green Bay Packers. It may have been hard to imagine, back in March, when the Bears were on cloud 9 hype, that their opening performance would make them look like a worse team than the 2022 Bears.
Read moreHow Overwatch’s 5v5 is Mathematically Inferior to the Old 6v6
In this article I discuss Overwatch’s 5v5 team makeup problem and how the current situation is inferior to the prior 6v6 scheme in the first incarnation of the game.
Read moreA Lesson from the PGA-LIV Golf “Merger” Fiasco
Nobody really knows anything about what this ‘merger’ means for the future of worldwide professional golf, but still there may be something of merit to say on the matter.
Read moreThe Greatest Lesson of History
They say those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. But is that really true? No matter how much history I know, there isn’t much I can do about it. There is a more pertinent lesson.
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