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By BRUCE LOWITT After dramatically changing the face of Major League Baseball for the upcoming season, Commissioner Rob Manfred said he has “even more improvements in mind for 2024, which I think will either speed up or screw up the game even more, depending on your point of view.” By adding a pitch clock, increasingContinue reading “Want more offense? The MLB Commish has some big balls”

By BRUCE LOWITT Fox News, facing a $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, responded to filings in Delaware Superior Court with a statement by Fox News President Jay Wallace stating, in its entirety, “So what?” Wallace, who said he was acting on orders of Fox Corporation CEO and executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch, thenContinue reading “Fox to Dominion: “Get lost!””

By BRUCE LOWITT Mike Pence is challenging special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoena requiring him to testify about events surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, but the former vice president insists it’s not that his wife told him not to do it. “It’s not because ‘Mother’ said I shouldn’t,” Pence said, using the nameContinue reading “‘Mother’? Oh, brother!”

By BRUCE LOWITT FOX NFL Sunday routinely beats the competition in the leadup to National Football League telecasts with host Curt Menefee and panelists Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan. But that wasn’t good enough for Mark Silverman, president and chief operating officer of FOX Sports. In order to attract what heContinue reading “The Super Bowl Pregame Show Gets FOXed Up”

By BRUCE LOWITT Residents in George Santos’ congressional district in New York strongly agree that he should give up his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives but have seriously differing opinions on the punishment he should face for all his lying. A Newsday/Siena College poll found that 78 percent of voters in District 3,Continue reading “They don’t just want Santos gone”

By BRUCE LOWITT INDIAN CREEK ISLAND, Fla., Jan. 1, 2024 – Tom Brady’s roller-coaster offseason and 2023 football season has finally rolled to a stop after the greatest quarterback ever was unable to jump start several new careers and rejected, or was rejected by, several NFL teams. What began as a promising second career asContinue reading “The 2023 Odyssey of Tom Brady”

By BRUCE LOWITT Kevin McCarthy and his fellow travelers in the House of Representatives have established the No Ways and By No Means Committee, Homeland Insecurity Committee, Re-Education Committee and more than a dozen others, furthering the Republicans’ goal of becoming the party of rich white males. “We don’t just want to refuse to raiseContinue reading “Committees that should be committed”

Transcript of a surreptitiously recorded conversation among United States Supreme Court justices following the announcement by the court that it was unable to determine who leaked a draft of the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had established a constitutional right to abortion. “… (unintelligible) never said I wouldn’t like a goodContinue reading “They interviewed everyone except (probably) the guilty parties”

By BRUCE LOWITT The governors of 11 states plus Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., will begin shipping immigrants to Wyoming by midsummer because, as Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said, “they’ve got like six people per square mile up there. They could handle a few million people without even blinking.” Polis said asylum seekers inContinue reading “Wyoming: Bienvenidos solicitantes de asilo”

By BRUCE LOWITT In a mea culpa for their insensitive treatment of Ohio State kicker Noah Ruggles a week ago, the Atlanta Falcons’ halftime show during Sunday’s victory over Tampa Bay featured highlights of their Super Bowl meltdowns against New England and Denver and a fistful of other miserable moments during their mostly pathetic 57Continue reading “The Falcons blew more than a game”