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Handicapping the Big Bowls
Mercifully, we’re on the precipice of enjoying college football bowls from legitimately successful teams this season. Don’t misunderstand me. As much as I enjoy...
Kiddie Table
When I think too long on contemporary grown-ups, I do not like what I see.
Something about it reminds of the final scene in Citizen...
TCU Tumbles
It wasn’t a great week for coach Jamie Dixon and Frog hoops. Junior guard Jaylen Fisher is riding the pine pony with knee swelling....
Two Steps Forward, One Back
The Horned Dribblers stayed busy this week, and I have three conference contests to recap. Excitement is on the menu with coach Jamie Dixon...
Squid Game: Ready Player 456
Netflix surely didn’t anticipate Squid Game becoming its biggest hit ever as an original series, as the Korean series hit the streaming service last month with...
Giving Up with the Joneses
It’s been roughly a week since the Cowboys stumbled, bloodied and broken, into Soldier Field for Thursday Night Football, gathering force for a final...
Writing to Live
“The writing was my safe space,” shared one of my former students, Selena Park. “It was healing for me.”
Park was one of 19 students...
Holiday Games
If one thing has helped save the sanity of many in 2020, it’s video games. As moviegoing screeched to a halt, and various films...
The Mean (and Fun!) Streets
Street Fighter V launched on shaky legs back in 2016. People criticized its lack of single-player content, thin roster of characters, and poor online performance....
Monday Night Madness
We have survived what my wife astutely calls “the winter of summer,” a midweek cold front that brought cooler temperatures — for August. And...


















