Notre Dame is one of those schools that people either love or hate. At least when it comes to sports.

Women’s flag football is likely entering its salad days. Not that tackle football isn’t fully in its prime, contrary to the once popular prediction of its inevitable demise.

It’s a good time to be Lane Kiffin, the current head football coach at Ole Miss. That’s not just because his team is ranked seventh in the country and, barring a disaster against Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl, will be headed to the School’s first ever playoff appearance.

I know I’ve told this story before, but back when I was in college and we all had to come back early from winter break for indoor track, a bunch of us would get bored with nothing to do but practice and meets.

It’s no secret that the NBA All Star game isn’t what it used to be. Long ago, fans stopped caring about watching the best players in the League get together and see whether the East or West can commit to less defense, which usually ends up with some team scoring 160 and only winning by four. To be honest, it’s actually not that far from what the NBA regular season looks like these days anyway.

I get it. Basically, once every four years I do a commentary right after an election, and depending on the gravity of the moment, it might feel a bit vapid to drone on about who just won a football game or drafted a point guard.

Every company has an idea of what they consider the worst thing that can happen. And it’s usually way worse than what you’d think. Like talk to an someone who works in crisis PR for an airline, and there are disasters I would have never imagined in my worst fevered dream.

Last night was the opening night for the NBA season. You may or may not have known that, because either you’re not a big NBA fan or because we’re largely in the throes of both football and the MLB Playoffs. So you may not have realized that last night launched the regular season schedule, the first two of over a thousand games played in the regular season alone.

This is not the first time I’ve talked about a college football coach getting a massive payment for effectively getting fired and asked to not coach his team anymore.

As a child of a certain era in Texas, I grew up on a certain brand of country music. Kenny Rogers, Alabama, the Oak Ridge Boys. I listened to Dolly Parton before she was retro cool.