The conversation surrounding college football these days is all about whether or not an expanded playoff is the right move for the health of the sport.Whether the College Football Playoff expands to 24 teams or not remains to be seen, but as a traditionalist, I miss the days of the BCS, when only two teams played for a national championship at the end of the season.It was brutal for a large majority of the country, where one loss put all your team’s hopes and dreams on life support, but it made for some insanely dramatic television week in and week…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! World War II veteran Arthur Rose read a letter written a few days after June 6, 1944, at a Saturday ceremony in Normandy, France, as part of a commemoration of the 82 years since D-Day.”Dear mom and dad and kids, About a month before we landed, I had a feeling I might be part of the invasion. I couldn’t quite believe, though, that I would. I kept thinking, what could I possibly do in an invasion? Pull engines in the middle of a battle? I figured men like me would come along…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Most people know Baseball Hall of Famer John Smoltz for his prowess on the mound, but the 59-year-old has also become quite the golfer.Smoltz qualified for the U.S. Senior Open in 2018 and is hoping to do so again this year. He said his game is in the best place it has ever been and credited his health for where it is today.”The game is in its best place. The goal is you always wish you could play tomorrow when the game is in its best place, but that’s the beauty of…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog under the title: The World Is Approaching “Tank Bottoms” As Experts Warn That Very Painful Oil Shortages Are Ahead This Summer Without sufficient quantities of oil, the global economy will not be able to operate normally. So the fact that the global economy is running a massive “oil deficit” right now should deeply alarm all of us. Ever since the war with Iran began, the world has been consuming far more oil than it has been producing. We have been running down commercial oil inventories and strategic…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Mirra Andreeva, a 19-year-old Russian tennis pro, won her first Grand Slam title on Saturday, defeating Maja Chwalinska to win the French Open.Andreeva won in two sets, 6-3, 6-2, over the 114th-ranked Polish qualifier. Andreeva became the youngest player to win the women’s singles title since Monica Seles, who was 18 when she won her third straight French Open in 1992.She also became the first Russian woman to win a Grand Slam since Maria Sharapova won the 2014 French Open and became the first teenager to win a Grand Slam title since…

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The idealized concept immediately took root and blossomed: the Royal Air Force saved Britain from invasion in 1940. The conventional wisdom holds that Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s legendary “few” handed Nazi Germany its first defeat in World War II and paved the road to eventual victory. But was it true? In this poster, a German bomber is shot down by a British fighter during the Battle of Britain. Image: NARA After eight decades, it’s time for some objectivity about this admittedly heroic stand. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Western allies joined in a belated effort to counter Adolf…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The 158th running of the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown, will be run on Saturday.However, like the Preakness Stakes, it will not be run at its usual track. The race known as “The Test of the Champion” will be run at Saratoga Race Course for the third straight year, as Belmont Park began undergoing major renovations in 2024.Because the race is being run at an alternate course, it has a shortened distance of 1 1/4 miles, compared with the usual 1 1/2-mile distance at Belmont Park. Returning to…

It’s June, which means the baseball world will be on edge for the next 25 days or so. A tradition unlike any other in this country!For those who don’t know (and that’s none of you, because it’s everywhere), June is Pride Month. Haven’t you heard?!You know in October when the NFL wears pink for a month? That’s June in Major League Baseball, except it’s rainbow hats and social media posts. And, of course, the Texas Rangers angering half the country because they don’t do any of it. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD.…

The French Open is about to crown new champions.That alone makes this Roland Garros feel different.No Carlos Alcaraz defending his title. No Jannik Sinner, the world’s No. 1 player. No Novak Djokovic. No Iga Swiatek, who had won four of the previous six French Opens. No defending champion Coco Gauff, either. And no Aryna Sabalenka, after the women’s world No. 1 lost to Diana Shnaider in the quarterfinals.There’s no obvious script.And Martina Navratilova thinks tennis could use a little of that.MARTINA NAVRATILOVA SAYS SHE TRIED TO WARN KAMALA HARRIS’ CAMPAIGN ABOUT TRANS ATHLETES: ‘NOBODY WOULD LISTEN’Navratilova, an 18-time Grand Slam…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump said he wants soon-to-be acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte to begin shrinking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) before a permanent nominee takes over — signaling a potentially aggressive effort to reduce the size of the agency responsible for coordinating the nation’s intelligence community.Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he has privately instructed Pulte to begin what he described as a broader effort to streamline ODNI, calling the office “unnecessary and/or too big” and saying he wants the acting intelligence chief to “start…