This week in the sports world: NFL refereeing under fire again; Biden goes to bat for indigenous Olympic team

If the NFL wanted good refereeing, it would have it

You do have to appreciate that the officiating crew on the league’s Sunday Night game, supposedly the marquee matchup of the week where the entire NFL world tunes in, was able to pack in so much moron-acy into one final drive. The density of clueless officiating in the last minute of Kansas City Chiefs-Green Bay Packers was not all that different than a black hole. – Sam Fels Read More

It’s fight night at the Winter Meetings, maybe out of boredom

I had sort of bought into the magic of the Winter Meetings there for a second, and I know better. These haven’t been a thing for some time and yet many a writer show up thinking that deals will take place in the lobby or the bar where they can witness them come together over drunken arguments between GMs. It’s not the 1980s anymore and Dallas Green and Gene Michael or whoever else aren’t throwing back a bathtub of scotch and deciding they hate their centerfielder because they can’t remember his name anymore. – Sam Fels Read More

If the Bengals and Jags fall in the forest, do they make a sound?

Ever watch two teams, at the same time, trapped in a simulation, a pantomime, merely a dramatization of a football game? Either with the full knowledge that they are trapped within the parameters of a social experiment that they cannot escape? Or unaware of the boundaries placed upon them? – Sam Fels Read More

Biden supports Indigenous Olympic lacrosse team

With lacrosse being added to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, it is only right that the group of people who invented the sport get an invite too.

President Joe Biden has offered his support to the Haudenosaunee lacrosse team to get into the Olympics and represent themselves, their culture, and their flag at the Olympics. – Mackenzie Meaney Read More