As the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saint prepare to play a near-incomprehensible sporting match against one another, the rest of us prepare for a descent into hell.  As if sitting through the sport with so many rules, replay challenges, and mind-numbing length that only the world’s most litigious civilization could love was not hell [...]

The interview question “If you could have lunch with any 3 people alive or dead, who would they be?”  is supposed to be insightful because who you choose says something about who you admire.  Yet how often have you ever thought to yourself at lunch, “man I wish the people I was eating with were [...]

The Volokh Conspiracy dares to infringe on my political theory/soccer crossover blogging. The comments section is unsurprisingly hostile towards anyone dare pretend soccer is interesting. All I can say is: hurray for the market–which allows me to watch the beautiful game even if a majority of Americans think that I should not (so long as [...]

There is a very nice article on ESPN.com about Serena Williams.  When the Williams sisters first burst onto the scene, I was one of the many people who worried they were ruining the women’s game.  They represented what already seemed to have happened in the men’s game:  all power, no grace, no guile, no finesse.  [...]

No, I’m not going to actually make that list – though I think it would be an extremely hilarious thing to do.  Thanks to "Celebritology", I think that I have my new vote for the number one worst "top 100 list of all time" of all time.  That would be Time Magazine’s Top 100 albums [...]