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Look, Baseball!

I know I’m warmer than most on the World Baseball Classic, but I think it can only be a good thing that there’s actual, competitive baseball being played right now, after a long cold winter. (My enthusiasm will wane by May, when I’ll be wishing they could just skip ahead to September already. But let’s enjoy this!)

Vocativ has a pretty interesting profile of David Pick, an Israeli-American basketball fiend who exc

Vocativ has a pretty interesting profile of David Pick, an Israeli-American basketball fiend who exchanges hundreds of WhatsApp messages a day, acting as journalist, agent, scout, and everything in-between. [Vocativ]

The Campus Free Speech Battle You're Not Seeing

Last September, Simona Sharoni, a professor of gender studies at SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York gave an interview to an online magazine in which she talked about the need to connect feminism and gender to the movement for Palestinian rights. The interview wasn’t out of the ordinary for Sharoni. She’s made her…

Michael Bennett Withdraws From Group Of NFL Players Touring Israel Due To Human Rights Concerns

Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett has decided not to accompany a group of NFL players touring Israel next week, citing human rights concerns.