Entries by Aidan Berg

A Long Time Coming

86-year-old Tom Capehart added yet another achievement to his resume this year: a degree.

The State of Play: For better and for worse, Goodell’s apology reveals a lot about America

I want to make something abundantly clear: Black lives matter, unapologetically and unequivocally.  The fact that this statement remains remotely controversial after the events of the past several weeks, years and centuries is confounding, but nevertheless, it does.  For swaths of Americans — particularly the more resentful, privileged and light of skin among us — […]

Portrayals of sports riots, current protests sharply differ

On the morning of Super Bowl LII, the city of Philadelphia took to the streets in anticipation of celebrating who would become the 2018 NFL champion Eagles. It wasn’t the typical procedure of putting up barricades or cleaning the streets for fans — city employees coated light poles with hydraulic fluid to prevent celebrators from […]