Culture
I’ve been avoiding this subject because I don’t want to bring any pain to my (two) trans women friends. But reality overpowers kindness, I’m afraid. Let’s start with a simple fact. In physical sports, we don’t allow adults to compete against children. We don’t
Sports
The big pink chair will be empty this Eagles’ season. It was Uncle Curt’s chair for Eagles daytime games, when he walked over from his Center City apartment to mine, two blocks away. Two things were certain: Uncle Curt brought a half-gallon of Diet Pepsi that he bought in
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The Kentucky Derby over the weekend took me back to 1994, to my first (and last) win as a jockey at the Cherry Hill race track (R.I.P.) To be precise, as I learned at the time, I was a driver, not a jockey. I wasn’t on the
Sports
Which professional sport produces the biggest major league asshats? I mean players, not fans. (In Philly, you gotta specify.) It's axiomatic that most athletes in the Big Four — baseball, football, hockey, basketball — are coddled, but which sport offers up the characters with the worst character? Which athletes get