Completing a week that featured a whirlwind of activity and intense negotiations, sources inside the New York Yankees organization revealed late last night that they will be holding a press conference this morning to announce that they have acquired the rights to the Florida Marlins' 2003 World Series Championship. This...

The grim news came down yesterday for Chad Pennington and the Miami Dolphins: Pennington's shoulder injury will cause him to miss the rest of the 2009 season. Normally I would rejoice at the prospect of the rival Dolphins losing their starting QB for the season, but Pennington is a player...

I am a Jew and my mother is a Jew. Her mother and father are Jews whose own mothers and fathers (and sisters and brothers and aunts and uncles and cousins) were murdered by the Nazis because they were Jews. I am a Jew whose entire childhood and adolescence was...

I have a good friend who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Bible at an Ivy League university. Often times, we discuss the authorship of the Bible, specifically, whether its books were written by one or multiple authors, and whether modern biblical scholarship can be reconciled with the belief in divine...

My weekend was marked by the sneaking suspicion that I had lived it several times before. I do not refer to any of the principal components of my daily life, which took their usual twists and turns in direct proportion to the amount of alcohol I consumed. Rather, I am...

There is a scene at the very end of "The Candidate," a 1972 film starring Robert Redford as Bill McKay, a dark horse Senate candidate, in which, moments after being declared the winner, McKay pulls his campaign manager, Marvin Lucas aside and genuinely and plainly asks him, "Marvin ... What...