The NCAA will go to its impending grave claiming that Division I athletes are no different than any other students on campus.

As the Fighting Irish prepare to host Michigan State in an early must-win game to retain playoff hopes, Notre Dame’s legal team went to the Indiana Supreme Court this week to shield its campus police from the prying eyes of an ESPN investigative reporter seeking hundreds of incident reports concerning student-athletes.

In the month since Philadelphia hosted the Democratic National Convention, the City of Brotherly Love has exhibited world-class political skulduggery.

Standardized testing is lazy. It’s proxy for assessing student abilities and school performance that doesn’t actually tell you very much about student abilities or school performance.

Score another one for the bookies.

After a long and productive Facebook conversation (productive for Facebook, anyway), I think I have a good way of explaining this whole Iran/Nuclear Deal/$400 Million Payment thing in a way suburban voters can appreciate. It’s not better than the way the PRESIDENT tried to explain complex geopolitical negotiations to…

Last month, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals denied Tom Brady’s request for a rehearing of his four-game suspension for allegedly deflating footballs during a 2015 playoff game. By doing so, the Court essentially approved of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acting as the judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner in…

A powerful new swing vote has emerged on the hobbled, eight-member Supreme Court. His name is Justice Stephen Breyer. Appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, Breyer has been a liberal wine-cooler compared to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s progressive Johnnie Walker Blue.

Courts around the country are straight killing restrictive voter ID laws. In North Carolina, in Texas, in Wisconsin, and today in North Dakota, federal appeals courts are reviewing laws designed to suppress voter participation and overturning Republican-backed restrictions.

Donald Trump’s support of deposed mogul Roger Ailes has been strangely under-reported. When Trump was asked about the allegations surrounding Ailes, Trump said: “Well I don’t want to comment. But he’s been a friend of mine for a really long time. And I can tell you that some of the women who are complaining, I know…

The Constitution, including its 27 Amendments, is over 7,500 words long. Nobody actually thinks that Donald Trump has sat down and read the full thing. Right? The American Constitution might be the shortest founding document in the world, but it’s still a legal document. Who honestly thinks that Donald Trump has sat…

Today marks the day that more than one dozen new or amended NCAA rules take effect to further control how school administrators, coaches, athletes, and parents interact with each other.

Sometimes it takes a crisis to bring a family together. Our American political family is in crisis. The Democrats are running a candidate with what would be record breaking unfavorables, if the Republicans weren’t running a total psychopath.

Basically, the electoral map doesn’t work for Donald Trump if he can’t win North Carolina. North Carolina was a solidly Republican state, until Barack Obama came along and won the state in 2008. He lost it in 2012, but got very close.

Donald Trump is not a traitor (yet). A private citizen hoping for the Russian government to break U.S. law is not treason... though it’s an unconscionable desire from a citizen who wants to be President.

I have been asked, repeatedly, to post about Bill O’Reilly’s racist statements regarding the slaves who built the White House, as referenced in Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. Apparently, my job is to be a woke dung-beetle, who collects up the racist waste of the internet…

Back in the day, when AIDS was called the “gay plague,” and Tom Hanks didn’t have an Oscar, the FDA placed a ban on blood donations from gay people.

The easiest reason for Bernie Sanders supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton is the Supreme Court. I don’t think that’s the “best” reason, but Bernie people can’t bitch about money in politics and then let Donald Trump nominate the next one (or two, or three) Supreme Court justices. That’s just hypocrisy. Your Jill…

It might not seem like it, but I do try to stay away from politics. However, when covering the intersection of sports, gambling, and the law, it is nearly impossible to do so. One particular issue that I have kept an eye on is internet poker. It should come as no surprise that I take a Libertarian approach to gambling…

Well, it happened y’all. Donald Trump is the Republican Nominee for President. That means that the Republicans in your family, people you try to avoid talking politics with in the best of times, are actively rooting for the destruction of American exceptionalism.