Author: Aron Solomon

As first appeared in Boxscore By Aron Solomon A year ago, Kliff Kingsbury signed a five-year contract extension with the Arizona Cardinals. The contract guaranteed him $7.5 million a year for five years. He was fired immediately after the end of Arizona’s regular season last week, which means that the NFL franchise owes him the last four years of his contract, a total of $30 million. The last known communication from Kingsbury was a message that he was not looking for a job at the moment but was going to spend some extended time on a beach in Thailand, reportedly…

As first appeared in Boxscore By Aron Solomon Next week, the WTA will be thrown into the international media spotlight in a way that could potentially introduce women’s tennis to a broader audience. As a massive WTA fan and analyst of the game, I’ve been asking myself whether they are ready. The Netflix documentary Break Point really is a big deal. It follows on the heels of the very successful Drive to Survive, the series about Formula 1 race car drivers. The series focuses on a year in the life of several WTA and ATP players, with the first five…

As first appeared in NewsBreak By Aron Solomon The firing of West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) reporter Amelia Ferrell Knisely is a bad news story no one who supports public broadcasting wanted to hear to begin 2023. Knisely alleges that she was told to stop reporting about abuses she documented by the Department of Health and Human Resources against individuals with disabilities under care by the state. Knisely also alleges that her firing was the result of the state agency threatening to discredit WVPB. West Virginia Public Broadcasting is a public television and radio network serving the state of West…

As first appeared in NewsBreak By Aron Solomon According to FOX 5 New York, 57-year-old Frank Thompson was found unconscious and unresponsive on the floor of his second-floor classroom in a Westfield, NJ, middle school just after the school day began on November 29th. As per the FOX report, a school nurse was actively treating him in front of students when the police arrived. A police officer then used Narcan on Thompson, who began to show signs of improvement. Police late said they found fentanyl and drug paraphernalia in a closet in his classroom. Thompson was charged on Thursday with…

First appeared in NewsBreak By Aron Solomon As we saw on Monday night, part of playing a gladiator sport is putting one’s life at risk. Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin was involved in what looked to be a routine football play – until his heart stopped. His heartbeat was restored by paramedics on the field, and as of Tuesday morning, he is in critical condition at a Cincinnati university hospital. This type of catastrophic injury is, mercifully, rare in the National Football League. But what has become all too common are concussions. Before last weekend’s games, 135 players sustained concussions this season.…

First appeared in Boxscore News. By Aron Solomon, Caroline Garcia is an amazing tennis player. The Lyonnaise won November’s WTA Finals, capping a year that saw her rise all the way from 142nd in the world to number 4. So it caught my attention just after Christmas when I saw that Garcia was shilling for something called royaltiz. At first glance, I couldn’t tell if this was supposed to be the next big thing in sports gambling, if it was simply a bad idea to separate people from their money, or potentially the next FTX. As they indicate on their…

Tuesday’s vote to elect a new Speaker of the House quickly progressed from amusing to interesting to deeply compelling to actually historical. With the House set to resume efforts today at noon to actually elect a Speaker (to do some pretty important things, such as swear in new members of the House) there is no chance (please!) that 2023 will come when close to 1856 in the complexity of electing a new Speaker. The 1856 House of Representatives leadership election was a significant moment in American history, as it marked the first time that a Speaker of the House was…

As first appeared in Western Journal. For those of us who are doomscrolling our social media feeds these days, a term that we’re coming across is “margin call.” If you follow Elon Musk, it’s something that has been discussed at length over the past couple of weeks in relation to Tesla’s slumping stock price. As of Tuesday morning, not long after trading opened, this is what the totality of Tesla’s year looked like: No Tesla stakeholder, from Musk himself down to someone who owns one share of Tesla stock, is happy with a 71 percent decline in 2022. Experts believe…

Tim Sandle The disposal of pharmaceuticals and the waste generated from pharmaceutical production has an environmental impact, particularly in waterways. The extent of this varies by geography and in relation to the extent of local regulations and the willingness to comply with these regulations. Environmental concerns foremost relate to the detection of trace levels of pharmaceuticals in drinking water (from stimulants and antibiotics to analgesics and antihistamines; plus, scientific evidence of abnormalities in aquatic organisms, and the contribution that some pharmaceuticals make to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. The consequence of a lack of a coherent global (and often national)…

By Mark Dickinson Teachers face a Herculean task both connecting with children and building a sense of community to foster learning, a task even more challenging in diverse, often marginalized groups. Sometimes, the solution is as simple as turning on a soccer match. I teach middle school in a rural, Georgia county with kids from 32 countries, speaking 18 languages. It’s tricky enough for people from the same culture to get along, not to mention the problems that can arise when children mix English, Urdu, and Korean, or attempt to relate to one another’s customs, as dissimilar as the Battle…