Jonathan Chait had an intriguing article in last week’s New York magazine (“In Defense of Male Aggression: What Liberals Get Wrong About Football”) in which he discusses the current state of America’s most popular sport. The article is an admixture of… more »

  So I will watch the game today having, as has become my habit, avoided the media foreplay the Super Bowl has conditioned us to expect over the past forty-six years. I could care less about the comparisons and the stats- I am well past the age where f… more »

I anticipated that the Super Bowl would be a close game and, in the end, it was, as the 49er's had a last-chance shot in the closing minutes to win. Yet, it was a strange, almost bizarre game in the way that football can sometimes be, as captured in the… more »

From that purveyor of gladitorial entertainment, the NFL, these news items as the league readies us for its orgy of playoffs: The Arizona Cardinals fired coach Ken Whisenhunt on Monday, making it seven total coaches fired on Black Monday. This follows… more »