I really didn’t want to do this today. I really didn’t. Maybe it will be wrong to do so. In fact, I’m sure someone will tell me that. That’s just fine. But I just keep thinking back to the awful day 20 years ago and how shaken I was. I…

Maybe we want to think that it’s Republicans who did this. Certainly there’s plenty of truth to go along with that fingerpointing. But that’s not who I blame alone. Republicans have been obvious about their desire to take away a woman’s right to do as she wishes with her body…

This is Frank Robinson. Along with Hank Aaron, I consider him the most underrated great player ever. It’s not just that he compiled some amazing statistics, but that he did it in the golden age of baseball — post integration. I’m not saying Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Walter Johnson…

In the annals of baseball history, few careers were more star-crossed than J.R. Richard’s. Richard began his career in 1971 at just 21 years of age, with the Houston Astros, and what anyone would tell you is that he threw HARD. …

Do you remember rock and roll? I don’t mean that indie rock and roll that still has some mild cache in the current day, but that dirty ass kind that briefly dominated the airwaves in the late ’60s and early ’70s. …

I really wasn’t prepared for the last episode of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series, Education, on Amazon. Sure, I knew the final installment was likely to be terrific (the series is a landmark of art, culture, and humanity)—what I didn’t know was how it would resonate with me. On the…

Yesterday I went down to the County/City building in South Bend to perform my civic duty to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I’ve been voting early downtown for years, and whether it’s been an off-year or a presidential election, I’ve always gotten in and out in 10–15 minutes. …

“Little Joe” they called him. I suppose that was because he stood all of 67 inches (5 foot 7 for those of you who are math challenged). There was nothing small about him though. Save that tiny glove he wore while patrolling second base. It looked like a child’s mitt…

Dear Liberal White People, For a long time I thought I was one of you. My voting record, my values, and my ghostly pallor typically gave me away. In college, I was the guy who wore a Bob Marley shirt to my very republican small business professor’s class just to…