The fight for voting rights has created some unlikely partners. — By: Joey Handel and Carter Major League Baseball has long been considered the most conservative of the major American sports leagues, a product of its audience and the ethos of traditionalism inherent to the game. So when MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the league would move the 2021 All-Star…

The European Super League is an existential threat. — April 18th, 2021. 12:58 PM. Notification from iMessage. Karan sent you a link. Nothing about it was out of the ordinary. My best friend had texted me a link to a tweet with some football news. I talk to him every day, and we often send each other sports news…

What the rapidly reached deal says about how politics really works. — The Subtext to Legalization in New York What the rapidly reached deal says about how politics really works. Last Thursday, the story broke in the national press that New York’s state legislative leaders had reached a deal to legalize recreational marijuana. As our politics contributor Joey Handel has written about…

Millions of prisoners in America are banned from voting. Why? — By: Joey Handel and Carter “Why this fear? What can be worse than life in prison? Having choices but being unable to choose.” -Llujeta Lleshanaku, Prisoners One of the main legislative goals of the nascent Biden administration (going back to when it was just the Biden campaign) has been the…

There’s no better feeling in team sports than being bestowed with an ominous-ass nickname by the general public. And like the Purple People Eaters, the Monsters of the Midway, Murderer’s Row, the Warriors solidified their status in sports history when the lineup of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala, Kevin…

I went to a pretty good high school. My friends all went to good colleges, some to the best colleges in the country. Some of those are now on track to land jobs with some of the most competitive pay at some of the most prestigious firms. I am very…

We did it. We actually did it! I keep having to remind myself that it actually happened, that Donald Trump was defeated, and the threat he posed has — temporarily — been defused. It helped to be in New York City when the networks called it: cheers and whoops erupted…

Seriously, what just happened? In the span of about 48 hours, starting on August 25th, without much warning at all, the world of sports changed irrevocably. Obviously, the story started with the shooting of a Kenosha man named Jacob Blake who was reaching into his car during an arrest, when…

In life, as in sports, it’s generally best to avoid celebrating too early. It would behoove Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to learn that lesson now, though it may already be too late. The Sunshine State was one of the last states to close down in the wake of the COVID-19…