Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! Today marks 100 days until Christmas, which is technically true but emotionally fraudulent. You could be excused for not feeling particularly holly and/or jolly right now, because nothing about this weather suggests that Christmas is anywhere within shouting distance. In fact, September currently

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! The NFL season is officially back, which means millions of Americans can once again spend their Sundays screaming at professional athletes for failing to produce enough imaginary points for a team called something like “Tua Legit Tua Quit.” Fantasy football is a beautiful

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! Fall is almost here, bringing with it football, flannel, decorative gourds, and approximately 11 days of perfect weather before the forecast turns into a damp gray hostage situation. Of course, we’re not actually in fall yet, and that’s for two very important reasons: The

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! Yesterday, we lost what might have been the closest thing America ever had to a universally beloved celebrity. Dolly Parton died yesterday at 80 after a brief battle with cancer, ending a life that somehow stretched from a one-room cabin in the mountains of

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! College football returns next week, which means it’s time for preseason rankings, playoff predictions, Heisman odds, and dozens of other things we’ll confidently say now and pretend we never said by October. But forget the AP Poll. I’ve done some research, and today we’re

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! Today is my 30th birthday. It still doesn’t feel real that my age now starts with a “th-,” but apparently the government has the paperwork to prove it. They say wisdom comes with age, and I’m disappointed to report that there may actually be