Over 16 years, I’ve covered tons. Six or seven World Series. Same number of MLB All-Star Games. I’ve driven through Ada, Oklahoma with bull riders and surfed with Barry Zito and spent four mid-February days in Yellowknife, Canada, the coldest North American city on record. I’ve seen people laugh and

Sarah Palin is very offended. She didn’t like the recent episode of The Family Guy, when a female character with Down syndrome went on a date and was asked about her family. “My dad’s an accountant,” she replies, “and my mom is the former governor of Alaska.” So is terribly

“We have a habit of turning sentimental about celebrities who are struck down — Muhammad Ali, Christopher Reeve — transforming them into mystics; still, it’s almost impossible to sit beside Roger Ebert, lifting blue Post-it notes from his silk fingertips, and not feel as though he’s become something more than

On SI.com, the excellent Joe Posnanski wrote a piece on what Tiger Woods should tell the media in today’s statement. Joe is great—but I thoroughly disagree. Here’s my take … First of all, before I start, I’d like to apologize to my wife Elin and our children. It’s pretty obvious

Dick Cheney? Sarah Palin? Mitt Romney? Rudy Giuliani? John McCain? All of y’all—where you at? Haven’t heard your snarky, America-is-less-safe-than-ever blather this morning. Or yesterday. Or the day before. Seriously, gimme a call—haven’t heard much. Oh, did you guys happen to catch this headline in today’s New York Times: IN

There is something about the Tea Party movement that I genuinely like. The whole f$%^-the-government, we’re-gonna-do-this-ourselves philosophy rings true for me. The anger is legitimate and understandable, and I can appreciate the need to find a voice; to find your own voice. And yet … I can’t help but feel

If there are two things in our society that are supposed to make us feel young, they’re music and sports. Yet here, in 2010, few things make me feel older than music and sports. As I write this, I am copying the entirety of Live’s Mental Jewelry onto my computer.

I am 37-years old, and I still get zits. Not all the time, and not to the point that I’m primed for an Oxy commercial. But it’s truly annoying, because two decades removed from the teenage years, well, I probably should be liberated from this shit. Above is a photo

As I write this, I find myself surrounded. By Vanilla Ice and John Oates. By Queen Latifah and Shawn Mullins. By Soundgarden and Shaw•Blades and Naughty By Nature and Kiss and Heavy D and Stone Temple Pilots. Upon returning from Florida last night, I was pleasantly surprised to find that

So yesterday the United States announced the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s top military leader in Pakistan and—without question, it seems—the most important terrorist-related snagging since 9.11. Hence, I eagerly await tonight’s broadcasts on Fox News, when surely Sean Hanity, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, et