Alex Kirshner

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  • Oct 1, 2025
    In 2013, NBC produced a 4-minute, 41-second commercial to hype up its acquisition of broadcast rights for the English Premier League. Jason Sudeikis starred as “an American...
  • Sep 4, 2025
    American exceptionalism is the belief that the United States exists on a separate political and moral plane from the rest of the world. The NFL has its own version of this idea, and...
  • Jul 30, 2025
    I support Adam Sandler’s right to make hundreds of millions of dollars producing fun movies. My favorite movie from my childhood is The Waterboy, the 1998 romp about a redneck...
  • Feb 10, 2025
    Super Bowl 59 was over before Kendrick Lamar took the field at halftime. The most obvious reason was that Patrick Mahomes’ unimpeded journey to greatest-of-all-time status took...
  • Jan 28, 2025
    There is not a lot left to say. Every publication is allotted one story with the headline “God Just Hates the Buffalo Bills,” and we used ours last year. We have already...