Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
On May 3, 2025, Sovereignty, a 3-year-old colt, surged past the odds-on favorite, Journalism, to claim the Run for the Roses by 1 1/2 lengths at Churchill Downs. For Trump supporters, this wasn’t just a horse race—it was a providential sign.
Spring has its share of traditional rites and rituals. In Happy Valley, the home of the Penn State Nittany Lions, one spring rite that still survives is the football program’s annual spring game.
The recent saga surrounding Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava has thrust the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) debate back into the spotlight, exposing the raw greed that’s eroding the heart of college athletics.
Today, April 6th, we celebrate National Student-Athlete Day (NSAD)—a day to honor the nearly 8 million high school and 500,000 college student-athletes across the United States who balance grueling athletic schedules with academic excellence and community impact.
Football may be a game of inches and even tush pushes (for now) but like any business, it is the numbers that ultimately narrate the game’s story. Numbers reveal objectively if something is getting better or worse. Numbers are the language of business and make no mistake, the NFL is a business.
“Game Called.”
Those words, penned by Grantland Rice in 1910, were originally solemn—a farewell, a benediction for the ballplayer stepping beyond this life’s final basepath.
With all the banter regarding tariffs on imports and while many sports’ aficionados were consumed with filling out their NCAA basketball tournament bracket, the Major League Baseball (MLB) season’s annual road show got underway in Tokyo, Japan.
In the quiet town of Tavistock, Ontario, a craftsman named Eckhardt Wettlaufer sought to create a special gift for his son’s fifth birthday. Drawing upon his woodwork skills, he crafted a circular wooden board with a central hole, surrounded by concentric scoring rings and small pegs acting as obstacles. This was in 1876, and little …
After setting the record for overtimes played in a Division I NCAA basketball season in the quarterfinals of the Patriot League Tournament, the number one-seeded Bucknell Bison were sunk in the semifinals by Navy in regulation, 83-77.
Paul William Bryant was born in the late summer of 1913 in a Cleveland County, Arkansas, backwater. His hometown of Moro Bottom wasn’t even a town, technically. Only seven families lived there.
When Penn State lost to Maryland on Saturday 68-64 their hopes of qualifying for the Big Ten Tournament came to an agonizing end on Senior Day, no less.
Who reading this can recall when the Super Bowl was played in mid-January? How many can remember when the NFL’s championship game was called just that: The NFL Championship game?
Take a good look at this photo. The American flag, the iconic 101st Airborne patch, and the West Point shield—symbols of courage, sacrifice, and service.
Septuagenarian Peter Costarelli has made the journey to the home field of the Army Black Knights football team at West Point twice over the past half century but has yet to attend the granddaddy of college football – Army vs. Navy.
That will end Saturday.
Sweet Home Alabama & the Army-Navy Game: A story of a decades-old military academy rivalry coupled with good, old-fashioned Southern Patriotism.
Well, wasn’t THAT something? Last Friday’s bout was like watching an exasperated grandfather chase his bratty grandson around the living room.
This week, Chuck takes a look at a future possibility in car racing, one that enhances the viewer experience.
My site reported, on October 28th, about the efforts of collegiate officials to stop female athletes from complaining about male members on their teams or having to compete against males who claim to be female on other teams. Well, no, complains the Athletic Director of the University of Nevada at Reno, that’s not what happened …
STATE COLLEGE – Football media day at Penn State has always resembled a military parade. It is a classic pass and review. All the players don their jerseys and are regulated to huddling together by their positions located throughout Holuba Hall’s vast indoor football practice facility. The afternoon’s proceedings have always taken on a very …
In a world where society once rallied around the idea of protecting the vulnerable, we now find ourselves in a disturbing new era where the lines between right and wrong have blurred to the point of absurdity.