Noem mij gerust naïef, dat doe ik in deze ook, maar ik had het niet verwacht. Vier bestuursleden van de ploeg van m’n hart – KV Mechelen – blijken schuldig aan een poging tot matchfixing. Aldus sprak het Belgisch Arbitragehof van de Sport vandaag. Toegegeven, ze bevestigen daarmee alleen maar wat de Geschillencommissie van de […]

Bill McKibben in The New Yorker: By now, we are used to Trump’s big-lie technique. Even by that standard, however, the claim that “we are working harder than many previous Administrations, maybe almost all of them,” on environmental protection will be believed by exactly no one for whom words have not yet lost their common-sense […]

Tim Herrera in The New York Times: By agonizing over tiny improvements in our work — if they even are improvements — we prevent ourselves from achieving the actual goal of, you know, doing the work.

Sports Illustrated: “Unflappable. Unapologetic. Unequaled.”: We’ll go there. Muhammad Ali is a singular figure in American life. But there are elements of a modern-day Ali in Rapinoe’s stance toward sports and social activism, to say nothing of her ability to turn the glare of publicity—much of it controversial—to her advantage. Who else would say with […]