Father’s Day with others’ children still touches heart
PORT AU PRINCE , HAITI – As I write this, on Father’s Day weekend, I am overlooking a small courtyard of 46 children. Some are barefoot. Some run in circles. One pushes a wheelbarrow. Six or seven are reading. Several girls are having their hair braided by nannies. A...
Casey Mize takes it slow; what a pleasant change
The Detroit Tigers made Casey Mize the No. 1 pick in the 2018 MLB draft earlier this month. Yet, Mize isn’t rushing to the big leagues, which is an approach I can support.
Does God really want preacher in a $54M private jet?
The preacher wants a new airplane. Not just any airplane. A private jet that can seat 16 and fly 6,000 miles without stopping. The cost of this airplane, new, is $54 million. But that’s not a problem for the preacher. He just asks his followers. “(God) said,...
Watching Shohei Ohtani gives glimpse of double greatness
I came to witness. After so many years in the sports writing business, it’s rare to see something you haven’t seen before. I obviously missed Babe Ruth trying to be a pitcher and hitter 100 years ago, and Roy Hobbs in “The Natural” was, after all, a movie character...
Why are Americans so wild about a royal wedding?
Before the vows, before the hymns, before the majestic organ blasts, before the children carrying the bride’s veil up the steps, before the 92 year-old queen stepping out of her vehicle (“There’s the queen, is she in green?” gushed a CNN commentator) before Prince...
Heroic amputee lost his leg but found something special
It’s coming on graduation season, but I’ve already heard the best commencement speech of the year. It wasn’t delivered in a cap and gown, over a microphone, or to the sound of applause. Instead, it came in a phone interview, with a somewhat tired high schooler who had...
Detroit Lions draft picks easy to judge, hard to be right about
“Who are you to judge?” It’s the question that shadows the NFL draft. TV experts make predictions. TV experts get it wrong. Viewers laugh, “Who are you to judge?” Player waits. Player doesn’t get selected. Player snarls, “Who are you to judge?” Team...
Professor’s hateful tweets not what tenure should protect
Fresno State English professor Randa Jarrar caused a stir last week when she lashed out on Twitter after the death of former first lady Barbara Bush, calling her an “amazing racist.”
Sinclair script is not news. It’s frightening propaganda
If you form an opinion, it’s yours. If I make you repeat my opinion, it’s not. That is the crux of the Sinclair Broadcast Group controversy, where the nation’s single biggest owner of TV stations recently instructed all of its 193 stations to deliver the same message,...Stay Connected
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