Sports

A water drop and ripples

Is the NCAA an indicator of the breaking of the dam of reality on COVID?

By Justin Katz | January 10, 2022 |

This is encouraging and long overdue: As ESPN reports, the NCAA’s COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group updated its definition of “fully vaccinated” to account for various new vaccinations, boosters, and immunity factors. “Fully vaccinated individuals now include those within two months of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, five months of receiving the Pfizer vaccine series…

A water drop and ripples

You really need to witness the absurdity of men in women’s sports.

By Justin Katz | December 15, 2021 |

Understandably the text and numbers provided in news stories about the record-setting run of a male swimmer identifying as a female in Ivy League competitions are kind of abstract to most people.  Matt Walsh provides video of Princeton’s trans superstar lapping the competition: Just to show you how absurd this is. Here’s the trans swimmer…

A water drop and ripples

A biologically male swimmer is dominating the Ivy League female division.

By Justin Katz | December 1, 2021 |

We can probably expect outcomes like that described by Hank Berrien in the Daily Wire to become more and more common: In November, a University of Pennsylvania swimmer who swam for the men’s team for the previous three years swam for the women’s team, dominating the competition. Lia Thomas formerly used the name Will Thomas.…

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The Border Crisis and the Boston Marathon

By John Loughlin | October 9, 2021 |

Todd Bensman talks about immigration and Victoria Salibi discusses running the Boston Marathon.

Mike Stenhouse & Providence Grays

State of the State: Providence Grays Host Historic Baseball Event

By Mike Stenhouse | July 29, 2021 |

A free event on August 14 and 15 at Rocky Point Park pays homage to the history of a great American pastime.

Soccer cleats in the air

Don’t be surprised when we find it was dangerous to open the door for boys in girls’ sports.

By Justin Katz | May 23, 2021 |

Any parent with children of both sexes who play soccer has seen the undeniable difference in the way boys and girls play the game.  It seems the cultural and hormonal differences may be interwoven with an underlying acknowledgment of actual risks. According to the results of a recent study: The study confirmed findings from previous…

Girls playing soccer at night

You may not have heard a key variable in the women’s soccer pay inequity discussion.

By Justin Katz | May 20, 2021 |

Having high-school-aged daughters in this day and age, I’ve heard the issue of pay equity for female soccer players come up from time to time, in and out of a school-project context.  Curiously, I’d never before heard the detail that Ashe Schow reports for The Daily Wire: … U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner dismissed the…

Mike Stenhouse and Ken Block

There’s a direct connection between unreasonable costs for government and unreasonable taxation.

By Justin Katz | May 13, 2021 |

On his In the Dugout show, yesterday, Mike Stenhouse implicitly made that connection.  On the one hand, Ken Block was on the show to talk about firefighter overtime abuse in Warwick, while on the other hand, pollster Jim Eltringham addressed public opinion on a proposed Transportation & Climate Initiative gas tax.  Stenhouse also leveraged his baseball connections…

The NCAA logo as a pride flag

Providence College Should Quit the NCAA

By Justin Katz | April 22, 2021 |

The culture wars can’t be a one-way fight, and the longer the forces of tolerance and truth restrain themselves, the more certain their defeat will be.

The Death Penalty for Penn State Football

By Patrick Laverty | July 13, 2012 |

It’s embarrassing to tag this with a “Sports” category as this really isn’t a sports issue. It’s a human decency issue. When you turn a blind eye to child rape in order to protect a football program and its coach, that’s just disgusting. Yesterday, a report commissioned by Penn State University and completed by former…