Coaches Aren't Kings
There's something rotten in college sports.
Kevin Binversie is a Wisconsin-based conservative writer and commentator. He contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2013 and 2018, covering a range of topics including sports culture, comic books, Wisconsin politics, and legal affairs such as the landmark gerrymandering case Gill v. Whitford.
There's something rotten in college sports.
It is oddly fitting that Steve Ditko had been dead for a week before the rest of the world discovered word of his death.
With the National Football League punting on how to handle players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police mistreatment of African Americans, all the owners (and Commissioner Roger Goodell) may have done is trade one headache for another: Accelerating the pending labor Armageddon…
A series of bills introduced Monday in the Hawaiian state legislature could harbor a new era of regulation of the video game industry. The bills, introduced by state Rep. Chris Lee (D-Oahu), go straight at the most vocal complaint among gamers today: loot boxes.
How far will an advocacy group go to back its endorsement? We’re about to find out via the actions of the Club for Growth in Wisconsin’s Republican primary for the Senate.
This is due to an industry-wide move to offer players in-game purchases. There are many kinds of items you can buy in today’s video games. One common type is an “item box,” which is also known as a “loot crate.” You don’t buy the loot crates directly, of course. First, you purchase in-game currency…
With the U.S. Supreme Court case, Gill vs. Whitford now concluded, we wished to look at how the Badger State found itself at the center of the judicial fight over partisan gerrymander. The following is Part 2 in a series relaying Wisconsin’s recent history in drawing its legislative district lines.
We Wisconsin political watchers are used to having the Badger State’s redistricting fights end up in court. So used to it, in fact, that some form of court has played a role in the matter since 1931.
Immense technological and storytelling evolutions of the last 30 years have elevated video games into a respected art form. Video games today have graphics that make them literal works of digital art and provide cinema-quality experiences to gamers. It's allowed the industry to transition from…
For comic book writers, the first rule in working for Marvel or DC Comics is this: The toys don’t belong to you and you’re only allowed to play in the sandbox as long as the suits let you.