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A day after Barack Obama’s historic win, I think newspapers are among the major winners in Election ‘08. On Wednesday in New York City, I heard various stories about a scarcity of the day’s newspapers. Friends and colleagues were unable to find copies of the New York Times at newsstands. By midday, I heard [...]

Every year as sports seasons come to an end, attention turns to the future of athletes. Who will be back and who will ride off into the sunset. Funny thing is that each year, the same athletes turn up on the list, as if they have some special lease on retirement. Will I, Won’t I [...]

We left for Utah this morning via JFK and JetBlue. First thought is flying has simply become humiliating. We learned to live with long lines at check in and shoe removal at security, but we’ve crossed the line. At JFK, we spent 36 on bagels, coffee, water, two sandwiches (for later) and chips. Not like [...]

Bob Costas is among the sporting world’s more respected reporters — and for good reason, I think. But Costas exposed a surprising ignorance during the Olympic opening ceremony when discussing Israel and the Jewish sabbath.
Here’s what he said as Isreal’s contingent entered the opening ceremony:
[Israel's President] Shimon Peres is here. He is staying [...]

I found my interest in last night’s Super Tuesday coverage diminishing little by little as the electoral map became muddled in various shades of blue and red.
Still, I was drawn to one particular bit of exit polling data, showing that the leading quality sought by Obama voters is “can bring about needed change.”
Obama [...]

1) Giants coach Tom Coughlin should be getting far more credit than he is — for bucking the NFL trend and playing his best players in the last week of the regular season. With nothing more than pride on the line, Coughlin took on history and allowed his team to give the Patriots all they [...]

I sure wish I could watch the Packers-Cowboys game on the NFL Network tonight and, even more, the Redskins game next Thursday night. I called Cablevision a few minutes ago to inquire about the channel, which is not in their lineup. Before I could even get to a rep. I heard, “Press 1 if you’re [...]

Three days after removing Don Imus from its cable channel because of a joke with clear racist and sexist undertones, NBC turned its airwaves over to a new episode of the long-running Saturday Night Live. Given the network’s central role in the Imus affair turned national obsession, it was fair to wonder whether SNL might [...]

The National Hockey League should be ashamed of itself. The hockey all-star game should be a chance for the world’s best hockey players to show off one of the world’s most exciting games — a glorious display of passing and shooting.
Unfortunately, for the few Americans actually watching the game on television last night it was [...]

Senator Hillary Clinton made a subtle but interesting comment in her post-SOTU remarks to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. Here’s what she said in response to a Matthews question about whether she still “feels a sting” from the Republicans’ efforts to kill her health care plan in the early 1990s:
“You know I really don’t [...]