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MLB Cuts Out The Heart Of America

By Roger Wallenstein

The year was 1960, the first time I attended a minor-league baseball game, featuring the Duluth Dukes hosting the Eau Claire Braves at Wade Stadium in Duluth, Minn. “The Wade,” as the locals call it, is a concrete fortress whose aluminum planks in the cheap seats can be downright frosty even in summer if the wind is blowing in an unfriendly direction off Lake Superior.
Our summer camp was 30 miles away, and a field trip to see the Dukes of the Northern League more than 60 years ago was a delicious treat.

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Posted on February 22, 2021

Special Olympics Dragon Unveiled

By Special Olympics International

The Local Organizing Committee for the Special Olympics World Winter Games Kazan 2022 unveiled the global event’s logo during a ceremony at the Kazan Kremlin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The logo carries rich symbolism and was developed in part with a competition for designers across Russia. The visual identity is based on winner Artemy Lebedev’s concept: Zilant – a mythical dragon creature and symbol of the city of Kazan – hugs a stylized tulip native to the Tatarstan region and serves as a representation of the Volga River. The depiction of Zilant hugging the logo is emblematic of friendship, hospitality, and joy.

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Posted on February 18, 2021

For Bears QB Conundrum, A Magic Solution

By Jim Coffman

First of all, congratulations to Ryan Pace for not yet having made a lopsided trade for Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz or whichever other veteran signal-caller he might overpay for (with players and picks in a trade) and overpay (salary) in the current offseason.
I have a much better idea and will get to it shortly.

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Posted on February 17, 2021

Valpo Picked Wrong Genocides To Honor

By David Rutter

The world of Lutheran angst and outrage is aflame this month with news that Valparaiso University’s sports mascot has been expunged and excommunicated.
The forces of cultural sensitivity arrived. The Crusader had to go because it violates political correctness norms, and that makes people on both sides itch as if they have hives or shingles.
But I arrive to tell my Missouri Synod friends that they are misguided in their outrage on the merits of the case.
Missouri Synod Lutherans often are oddly and angrily wrong, and who better to lecture them on their theological errancy than Lapsed Catholics?

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Posted on February 16, 2021

Karma Finally Bites Boston

By Jim Coffman

Sports karma is a bitch.
And in this year’s Super Bowl, Boston fans received their second heaping helping of the last year-plus. This would be karma as it is experienced by people in their current lifetime, by the way. We are not getting into reincarnation.

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Posted on February 8, 2021

Super Bowl Halftime Show Prop Bet Post-Mortem

By Natasha Julius

Whelp, aside from a glaringly obvious set list and some predictably unfortunate dancing, The Weeknd defied expectations. No covers, no scantily-clad dancers, and he did the one thing Brandon explicitly predicted he wouldn’t do – played tracks from the mixtapes.
He also found some clever and entertaining ways to get around the fact that half the audience was made out of cardboard.

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Posted on February 8, 2021

The 13th Annual (More Or Less) Beachwood Super Bowl Halftime Show Prop Bet: Mr. Weeknd?

By Natasha Julius

It’s been a long, ugly, terrible year since I last pretended to care about the Super Bowl half-time show and somewhere in that miserable slog either the NFL or I or possibly both of us gave up. I can understand why the organizers would want to avoid the kind of big, loud spectacle we’ve seen in prior years. J-Lo’s not going to mount a stripper poll in a half-empty stadium, after all. But with all due respect to Mr. The Weeknd, this feels like the half-time show equivalent of sweatpants on a Zoom call – no one’s gonna see it, so who gives a fuck?

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Posted on February 5, 2021

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