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Sports fans like rivalries. They like basketball rivals that play home-and-away games. They like football rivals who play every year. They like following their teams to rivals’ homes, when they can. The great College Sports road trip tradition must not be lost! Today’s conferences are designed to compete for contracts with sports networks proliferating on a dying cable-TV industry, even though in waning industries, consolidation is the norm. Below, then, is what the conferences of the NCAA might look like if the conferences constituted themselves to foster fan enjoyment, rather than competing to gobble up TV markets. But first let...

President Trump is not expected to attend the All-Star Game in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, though past presidents have attended the game when it was held in the city. The Associated Press reported that Trump will likely skip the game after returning home on Tuesday from a trip to Europe ending with his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tuesday’s game marks the fifth time it will have been held in Washington since 1937. The AP noted that several former presidents have attended the game when the nation’s capital hosted the event. Former President Eisenhower skipped out on throwing the...