Sports At Politics

Kim Jong-il, the now-deceased former North Korean dictator and father of current North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, once claimed to have made holes-in-one at five different holes at a golf club in North Korea , although that feat probably never actually happened, since a single hole-in-one in a round of golf is rare, even at the professional level, and actual instances of multiple holes in one in a single round are extremely rare. I'll let you guess who is also exaggerating about their golf scores...: LPGA legend Suzann Pettersen is fond of the sitting U.S. president. But she's not so sure about his handicap. [...] "He cheats like hell," the 15-time LPGA Tour winner said. "So I don't quite know how he is in business. They say that if you cheat at golf, you cheat at business." Pettersen also said the president must pay his caddies well, as drives that are headed for the woods always ends up back in the fairway. She also mentioned his fondness...

Unlike the new Olympic events in curling, long track speed skating, and alpine skiing, the new big air event in Olympic snowboarding, which will debut at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, replaces an event from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia that has since been dropped from the Winter Olympic program, parallel slalom snowboarding, although parallel giant slalom snowboarding will remain part of the Winter Olympic program. There will be separate big air events for men and women in Pyeongchang. Big air snowboarding is the only new judged event in Pyeongchang, and, for those of you who are ski jumping fans, think of big air snowboarding as more similar to the aerials event in freestyle skiing than ski jumping, although there are some differences between big air snowboarding and freestyle skiing aerials beyond the obvious difference of big air snowboarding competitors using a snowboard instead of a pair of skiis. In big air snowboarding, the ramp is a single...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the third blog post in a seven-part series, titled Road to Pyeongchang, previewing the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the second blog post of a seven-part series of blog posts previewing the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a seven-part series of blog posts, titled "Road to Pyeongchang", previewing the XXIII Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Michael Cohen, who was, at the time, the top attorney for The Trump Organization, arranged a $130,000 hush money payment to conceal a 2006 sexual relationship between now-President Donald Trump and Stephanie Clifford: A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment [...] a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Michael Cohen, who spent nearly a decade as a top attorney at the Trump Organization, arranged payment to the woman, Stephanie Clifford, in October 2016 after her lawyer negotiated the nondisclosure agreement with Mr. Cohen, these people said. Trump married now-First Lady Melania Trump in 2005, according to Daily Kos's Jennifer Hayden: The alleged 'sexual encounter' took place in 2006. He married M...

Let me make it inherently clear that Kim Jong-un is a brutal dictator who has repeatedly threatened global armageddon by threatening to use nuclear weapons against the United States, has killed his own relatives, and leads a brazenly corrupt and completely undemocratic regime. I am absolutely not, in any way, a supporter of Kim or his political philosophy, and Kim should never be, in any way, a role model for current or future leaders of our great country. In fact, there are some similarities between Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump. For example, Trump is probably the most authoritarian-minded person to ever be president in our great country, and Trump is already one of the most corrupt presidents in U.S. history. A pair of North Korean athletes qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in pairs figure skating, although the North Korean Olympic committee did not officially enter the athletes prior to December 21, 2017, so any North Korean entry into the Olympics would be via...

Danny White, the athletic director for the University of Central Florida (UCF), claimed a national championship in NCAA Division I FBS gridiron football after the undefeated UCF Knights defeated the Auburn University Tigers by a score of 34 to 27 in a thrilling Peach Bowl contest. I'm going to consider UCF to be unofficial national co-champions with the winner of the College Football Playoff (CFP) final , which is scheduled for January 8 and will feature the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, as the winner of the Bama vs. Georgia CFP final will invariably have one loss on their record for the season (both Bama and Georgia lost regular season games to Auburn). Remember, the NCAA does not officially award a national championship in Division I FBS football . Instead, the College Football Playoff (CFP) was created in an attempt to avoid controversies over who would be generally recognized as national champion, which plagued the former Bowl C...