On the basis of some of the things that I've written here and elsewhere, I've been accused of being a Sexton "loyalist." Those who make that accusation don't know me very well. In particular, they fail to see just how a great a test of my cosmopolitan principles it is...
I may be living in the Middle East, but I'm still a dyed-in-the wool New Yorker. And it's a rare moment for a New York sports fan of my persuasion: both of my favorite teams are in first place. That would be the New York Rangers (hockey) and the New York Mets...
George W. Bush and Laura Bush watching Game 5 of the 2010 World Series, with Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton in the foreground. So if I were the Devil and had, by virtue of my position, perfect foresight, I think that last night I would have beamed myself over to the...
Major League baseball's free agent-signing season began today, with the Yankees making a monster offer to the Milwaukee Brewers' pitcher C. C. Sabathia. They're apparently also planning big offers to free-agent pitchers Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett. The Mets are going...
Always on the lookout for connections between baseball and politics, I was happy to see Jon Stewart mocking both the Obama and McCain campaigns for pandering to baseball fans. The most fair-weather of these fair-weather fans turns out to be . . . well, Sarah, of...
I've just started reading Simon Schama's latest book, The American Future: A History, which arrived today from amazon.co.uk. I got interested in the book when a friend sent me this a link to a review of the book by Niall Ferguson in the Financial Times. The book seems...
The polls show that the presidential election seems to be breaking in in favor of Chicago's Barack Obama, but this year's Chicago Cubs couldn't catch a break when it mattered. I'm still hoping to see Obama make history on November 4, but tonight I watched the Cubs...
So today was the final game at Shea Stadium as it turned out.In the end, it came down to the inability of the Mets' bullpen to do its job, as all of us who have been following the team's fortunes since the All-Star break. Perhaps we should have seen it coming when...
Last night I watched the first debate between Barack Obama and John McCain downstairs in our residence hall's commons. We had a group of about forty Faculty Fellows, RAs, and first-years from our building and others. The students were largely pro-Obama it seemed to...