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I apologize for the vanity, but I believe it’s important and something that I don’t see discussed. We have to convince people who will not vote for President Trump to not vote. The people that I am speaking to who despise Trump are voting against him, and not for Joe Biden. We need to convince evangelicals and suburban women that it’s okay NOT to vote. There are many evangelicals these days, and I work in this space, who refuse to vote for President Trump because they think he is a jerk. They despised Hillary so they were willing to vote...

There’s a good chance that the next leader of the United States will emerge from voters in swing states in the Big Ten Conference’s footprint. Five states that President Donald Trump won in 2016 – Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa – were democratic states when Barack Obama won the election in 2012. First-year Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren has made it a priority that the conference’s nearly 10,000 athletes will have a say in that election. Warren is in just his fifth month in charge of the 14-member league, and he’s made it clear with his early actions that...

I apologize for the vanity. I've been a freeper for well more than ten years and have never written one but I have to pull the trigger today.

The Ivy League canceled its men's and women's basketball conference tournaments Tuesday because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus. The four-team tournaments were scheduled to be played Friday through Sunday at Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge. The Ivy League instead will award its automatic NCAA Tournament bids to the regular-season champions, the Princeton women and Yale men.

I predict that there will be more scrutiny, not less, of the decision made by the Chick-fil-A Foundation. I am sure the company will revise its response. More nuance will surely be forthcoming because of the nationwide backlash. Nuance, however, is what causes you to lose in politics, get defeated in war and get burned at the stake in religion.

FOXBORO -- Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid says he wasn't trying to hurt Benjamin Watson when he delivered a late hit to the head of the New England Patriots tight end in the first quarter of Thursday night's preseason matchup. Regardless of intent, the hit still knocked Watson out of the game.

The Philadelphia Eagles' White House contingent would apparently have been a small one, as quarterback Nick Foles and potentially one other player were planning to attend the ceremony, according to NFL Network's Mike Garafolo.

Marguerite Moniot felt frustrated and flummoxed. Despite the many hours she had spent in front of the computer this year reading consumer reviews of health insurance plans offered on the individual market in Virginia, she still did not know what plan was right for her.

On 7 December 7 1941, the United States experienced one of its most defining moments in history: the attack on Pearl Harbor. A day of sadness, fear, and chaos – that early Sunday morning marked the unforgettable time that the Japanese attacked the Hawaiian naval base, forcing America to enter World War II. In total, 2,403 men and women were killed during the surprise attack, with thousands more left to recover from terrible injuries and acute burns. Though many were sadly unable to recount their experience from that fateful incident, Naval Lieutenant Jim Downing currently lives on to tell the...

I know, I know, Megyn Kelly, but this segment on Lt. Jim Downing, 104, is worth a watch.

NFL tight end Benjamin Watson discusses the prejudices common to all people as a result of our environment and experiences, and offers his insights on how we can ease racial tension in our society. (Part 1 of 2)

For most of her life, Phuc writes in a new memoir, she tried to run away from that moment when she became the Napalm Girl. Throughout "Fire Road," she explains how she came to see her life instead as a journey toward faith and peace. Phuc's survival and the errant bombing of civilians in her village outside Saigon by the South Vietnamese military have been comprehensively explored by journalists in the decades since the war, and in Denise Chong's 1999 book, "The Girl in the Picture," that detailed the war from the Vietnamese perspective. "Fire Road," written with Ashley Wiersma,...

"Everybody that morning, around me and I'm sure all over the island, were real heroes without any regard for their own life and safety," Lt. Downing said. "They did what needed to be done." He spent the morning trying to extinguish fires caused by the attack. Following Pearl Harbor, Lt. Downing served in the Navy for 24 years. Visiting from his home in Colorado Spring, Lt. Downing visited the National World War II Memorial. He also just finished his book, 'The Other Side of Infamy.' Lt. Downing has worked for a Christian ministry for years and say the horror of...

Trekking 500 miles across Spain is no easy task for anyone, but for wheelchair userJustin Skeesuck, achieving the dream seemed nearly impossible. However, Skeesuck’s lifelong best friend, Patrick Gray, simply didn’t accept that idea. “We've done everything together so far. Why not have one more adventure?” Gray told TODAY. “So there was just no other response in my head than yeah, I'll push you.” That’s exactly what he did — pushing Skeesuck, whom he has known all his life — across northern Spain’s Camino de Santiago trail. Skeesuck, who has Multifocal Acquired Motor Axonopathy, a neuromuscular disease similar to ALS,...

Steele has been with ESPN for a decade, and has been at the center of several controversies in recent months regarding her conservative political views. In January, Steele came under fire when she complained about protesters of President Donald Trump's travel ban, causing her to miss her flights.

Jack Barsky died in September 1955, at the age of 10, and was buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in the suburbs of Washington DC. His name is on the passport of the man sitting before me now - a youthful 67-year-old East German, born Albert Dittrich. The passport is not a fake. Albert Dittrich is Jack Barsky in the eyes of the US government. The story of how this came to be is, by Barsky's own admission, "implausible" and "ridiculous", even by the standards of Cold War espionage. But as he explains in a new memoir, Deep Undercover, it...

A conference on race took place at The Crossing Church in Tampa Bay, Florida, last week. The forum, titled “Under Our Skin,” attracted sports figures such as Super Bowl champion Tony Dungy, former player Ben Watson, and current ESPN anchor Sage Steele. The forum’s purpose was to “discuss the intersection of race and faith in America today.” That topic certainly received plenty of coverage at the conference. More notable, however, is how no one in the sports media covered what was actually said there.

"There are times that I believe that we, as African-Americans, can be hypocritical, and that is to not look ourselves in the mirror when we are saying certain things and blaming other groups for one thing when we are doing the exact same thing," Steele, the lead host of EPSN's "SportsCenter on the Road" and ABC's "NBA Countdown," stated during the "Under Our Skin" forum on race and faith held at The Crossing Church in Tampa that was sponsored by Tyndale House Publishers

I have been friends with Sage for more than a decade and she's a wonderful person. I was on the phone with her last evening when she was arriving at the airport. She had hosted the "NBA on ABC" studio show and had to be in Houston last night as she's hosting the Super Bowl media day today. As she was about two miles from LAX her car could go no farther because of the protests. She had all of her bags for the entire week in Houston and had to run to the terminal to make her flight. She...

This Jake Tapper interview with Lt. Jim Downing, 103, is tremendous.