by Steve Love | Jul 2, 2021 | Blog
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash The breadth of response to Carl Nassib’s entirely classy and comparatively quiet coming out as the National Football League’s first active gay player has been—if social media can ever be mousey quiet—boundless and most welcome. Of...
by Steve Love | Jun 30, 2021 | Blog
It must be the dog days before the beginning of football preseason. Why else would so many writers, some of whom claim to be analysts, go to cold-storage drawers in their pigskin morgues and haul out one of the cadavers that they previously autopsied? This would...
by Steve Love | Jun 28, 2021 | Blog
Steve Stricker won his third Champions Tour Major, the Bridgestone Senior Players If Akron Beacon Journal columnist Marla Ridenour is right—and she usually is—Phil Mickelson’s historic PGA Championship at the grizzled professional golfing age of nearly 51 will...
by Steve Love | Jun 25, 2021 | Blog
Following the apparently overwhelming positive response to Carl Nassib’s casual revelation that he is gay, and thus the first active player to acknowledge this in the NFL’s 101-year history, one of the speculative questions centered upon the supportive role his team,...
by Steve Love | Jun 22, 2021 | Blog
Life’s connections can be unpredictable—some warm, surprising, and rewarding, others fickle and hurtful. Guessing which will be which can be frustrating, particularly if one’s self-esteem is on the line and, despite what they might say, it always is for writers....
