Rick Telander
Sports columnist
Rick Telander is a sports columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.
There are so many things wrong here, it’s hard to know where to start. If the players and fans weren’t warned of a possible threat just to keep business moving, that’s unconscionable.
It’s a crazy gender world out there, folks. And, of course, the battlefield over transgender citizens’ societal and political rights has coalesced — where else? — in the so-called toy department known as sports.
Of course, the Sox are embarrassed by this season, furious inside that it started off terribly, showed the briefest hope, then collapsed for good.
Lugging around her dad’s legacy was never easy, but Trinity Rodman admits she has the athletic genes and feistiness that propelled her dad to rebounding dominance and five NBA titles.
We may not know what goes on in our kids’ minds, but we do know when you’re small, the world is gigantic and your fears are outsized.
As his Lou Gehrig’s disease progresses, McMichael holds out hope for Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The scandal happened in two ways: slowly, then all at once. The all-at-once part is easy: A football player made a complaint about locker-room hazing, an investigation was done and the dynamite blew up. The slowly part is complicated.
With lawyers becoming involved, who knows what lies ahead in this scandal?
It seems to this reporter that not only did the football coach have to know what was going on, but he subjectively encouraged it.