Penn State person here.

Haha. We travel a lot with the kids. Not many mega trips or weeklong vacations. Lots of small trips. I think that’s a lot easier. So we have the science to packing down pat.

The definitive ranking of sports television theme songs:
1. NBA on NBC (Roundball Rock)
2. Olympic Fanfare and theme
3. This week in Baseball (Gathering Crowds)
4. NHL on ESPN 
5. Monday Night Football
6. NFL on Fox
7. Sportscenter theme from 1990s
8. Baseball Tonight
9. Everything else

When we got our tax return earlier this year, we decided to take an impromptu trip to Valley Forge with our kids. Keep in mind, they were 5, 3 and 4 months at the time. We basically came up with the idea at 4p.m. at night and were on the road by 6 p.m.

I spent two years as a sportswriter for Casey Lawrence’s hometown paper.

You know who is worse at his job than Phil Jackson is?
Stephen A. Smith. He’s a two-bit Bobby the Brain Heenan. The Alex Jones of the sports world. And he’s bad at it. Gorilla Monsoon and Mean Gene Okerlund cannot be imitated.

Gorilla Monsoon! What a fucking name!

What kills me is that there are fantastic columnists at medium-sized papers around the country. The Times and the Post should be scooping some of those people up for these jobs.
Those people do much more with far fewer resources than a Brett Stephens or a Ross Douthat.
 
Don’t confuse the paid local columnist with the…

Subscribe to your local paper.
Your local government has far more of an impact on your life. They are the people who sit through hours of zoning hearings. For $10-$15 an hour, often.
Your local paper is easily mocked, but has probably broken several stories in the last five years that have impacted your life.
I’m…

They ended the year at .500. Eight other teams finished with better records. They didn’t make the playoffs.
Seems fair enough.

I spent more than a decade in small and medium-sized newsrooms. That Ross Douthat has a job at the New York Times will never stop astounding me.
First, the man can’t write.
Second, the man doesn’t seem to understand public policy.
Third, the man doesn’t seem to to ask the right questions, so he never has an interesting…

If you’ve ever seen Ken Burns’ “baseball,” one of the best parts is near the very beginning.
Robert Creamer, who is like 75 during the interview, talks about why he loves baseball and says two simple words. “It’s fun.” He doesn’t think there’s anything metaphysical about it.
His eyes go wide and this cynical old writer…

Thank you. So very much.

As a Penn Stater, I would like to say

I still say it looks more like professional douchenibbler Richard Spencer.

Why did someone make a bust of Richard Spencer?
More importantly, why isn’t the bust from when he was getting socked in the jaw?

Brands of chips that Kettle is better than:
Wise

That’s it.

But it’s not numbered.

Has anyone pointed out that Trump’s autograph is clearly just a series of squiggly lines? Can he read? Seriously.
Look at that shit. There is no “a” in there. No “d.”
Just squiggles. 

Here’s my subway story. I’ll try to keep it as short as I can.
This happened about 10 years ago in Hanover, a south central Pennsylvania town. I was a youngerish sports reporter and grabbed a quick lunch at the local subway.
I wanted to order my usual hoagie: A turkey on wheat with lettuce, tomato, onion, pepper and a…