Maureen Dowd, in yesterday's New York Times column, "Boy, Oh Boy," on Joe Wilson's outburst during Barack Obama's speech to Congress: "Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it."
Wemple's sports post previewing the Redskins-Giants game was so popular yesterday, let's do another. But on tennis this time.
So everyone knows that 17-year-old Melanie Oudin made one hell of a run at the U.S. Open this year; the No. 70 seed dispensed with Elena Dementieva, Maria Sharapova, and Nadia Petrova, before being defeated last night [...]
The Grio published an opinion column yesterday asking this: "Do black men prefer their women larger?"
Weighing in was Milton Kent, a former sportswriter at the Baltimore Sun who hosts "Sports at Large" on WYPR in Baltimore and is, as it happens, a friend of mine. Kent, for the record, is black. And the Grio [...]
D.C. United's pride, but little else, is on the line again in a U.S. Open Cup match tonight at the Maryland SoccerPlex. Fresh off vanquishing the amateur Ocean City (N.J.) Barons, otherwise known as "the Real Madrid of Ocean City (N.J.)," United now has to take on the Harrisburg City Islanders, known around their hometown [...]
