It's by Rick Reilly, the editor of SI who saw fit in one issue a few years ago to share his views about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Naturally, he was against both. Reilly is the poster boy for shoddy sports "journalism."
I stopped reading Rick Reilly’s crap years ago.
His purpose is not to enlighten or entertain, it is to show how much smarter he is than everyone else.
He and Costas are cut from the same putrid bolt of cloth.