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This World Series began like a treat when the Washington Nationals took a 2-0 lead over the Houston Astros … in Houston … in their best of 7 games. But then it seemed like a trick when the Astros came to Washington and won 3-consecutive games to take a 3-2 lead back to Houston. Even… Read more.
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NCAA Takes First Step in Emancipating Student-Athletes It has become axiomatic that as goes California, so goes the nation. Sure enough, just weeks ago California made it legal for student-athletes to hire agents to help them profit from their names, images, and likenesses. Now comes this: The NCAA’s top decision-makers voted unanimously Tuesday to start… Read more.
Sometimes President Trump’s congenital mendacity manifests like a tourettes tic. This explains the way he used to blurt out “no collusion,” as well as the way he now blurts out “no quid pro quo.” But, just as there was collusion between him and the Russians, there was quid pro quo between him and the Ukrainians.… Read more.
President Trump on Sunday announced that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive Islamic State leader, died during an American military operation in Syria, a major breakthrough more than five years after the militant launched the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. ‘Last night the United States brought the world’s Number One terrorist leader to justice,’ Trump said in a… Read more.
Instead, it’s the governing party’s laundry list of promises, which the prime minister hands her to read from the throne each year to mark the State Opening of Parliament. Except that this year’s list was much ado about Brexit, which amounted to a promise to drive the country right off the White Cliffs of Dover.… Read more.
Trust me, you don’t have to like baseball to marvel at this curious thing: never before in the field of professional sports has a team paid so much to win so little. New York’s season-ending defeat to the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series on Saturday means that for the first time since… Read more.
There’s nothing more self-absorbed than an American president like Trump playing the victim. But a British duchess doing so comes close. No doubt HRH The Duchess of Sussex (née Meghan Markle) would cringe at any comparison to Donald J. Trump. Yet she invited it with the cringeworthy interview she gave for Harry & Meghan: An… Read more.
I suspect many of you don’t know Catalonia from Babylonia, and couldn’t care less that you don’t. But, trust me, reading what follows will “connect” you far more than browsing social media ever could. Catalan separatists burned barricades and clashed with police in Barcelona on Thursday in a fourth night of violence triggered by Spain’s… Read more.
Speaking to a live audience at Georgetown University on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s role in providing a voice to more than 2 billion people of around the world. While he admitted that some types of misinformation can do harm, Zuckerberg said that Facebook and other tech companies shouldn’t be the ones to… Read more.
