The Perfect Deshaun Watson Suspension Gift

According to advertising email, this “Full Body Massage Chair” is for sale at a most appropriately named big-box store. Browns fans might want one for their unavailable quarterback as he sits out 11 games, as mandated by the NFL. Good women who provide...

Watson Mixed Messages can’t Massage This

With the finality of Deshaun Watson’s heightened punishment for violating his massage therapist victims and the National Football League’s personal conduct policy, it comes clear that the most difficult days ahead will be those of his counselor—or counselors. This job...
WriterL the Book Continues the Writing Journey

WriterL the Book Continues the Writing Journey

Largely and rightly, Stuart Warner’s new book, A Place Called WriterL: Where the Conversation Was Always About Literary Journalism, celebrates teaching and learning that has elevated narrative nonfiction in the hierarchy of writing. It also reeks of loss. It could...

Mayfield Memorandum 33: Browns QB Victim

When Baker Mayfield found himself trying to win the hearts and minds of the Cleveland Browns who owned the first pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, Mayfield went for the bomb. He took a verbal risk to sell himself to the Browns. He speculated and overpromised. “I think if...
Scott’s Bud Wilkinson: A Late B(l)oomer of a Book

Scott’s Bud Wilkinson: A Late B(l)oomer of a Book

John Scott is anything but a slow study yet it took him years to complete his marvelous archetype of learned sports biography. He began Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football in 1986. It wasn’t published until 2021. Do the math. It took Michelangelo less time...