George Perry

Jan 13, 2025 | sportsmith.co | George Perry

“Would you describe me as soft?” Even though the person was asking me through a screen from a few thousand miles away, I froze, then started shifting in my seat. That conversation, like my first with him, had already gone deep into topics of mental health and emotional openness. But Tom Short still has that aura — through the screen, over the distance — of someone you wouldn’t want to cross in a gym or outside a pub.

Dec 10, 2024 | thefederalist.com | George Perry

While Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared sex mutilation surgeries for minors to racial segregation and Justice Sonia Sotomayor mused about girls who “don’t want … breasts” last week, some women’s sports advocates applauded the Ladies Professional Golf Association’s new “gender eligibility” policy. Even a golf clap is more than the LPGA deserves, as the new policy is riddled with bogeys.

Aug 25, 2024 | realityslaststand.com | George Perry

Reality’s Last Stand is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paying subscriber or making a one-time or recurring donation to show your support. George M. Perry is a sports performance coach, sports businessman, and writer in Houston, TX. Before going into the sports industry, he was a submarine warfare officer in the United States Navy and briefly attended law school.

Aug 15, 2024 | quillette.com | Thomas Larson |Lawrence Krauss |George Perry |Ralph Leonard

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Aug 13, 2024 | quillette.com | George Perry |Ralph Leonard |Holly Lawford-Smith |Andrew Fox

While modern Olympic Games feature many well-paid professional athletes—especially in such popular spectator sports as basketball and soccer—their presence is something of a modern innovation. The International Olympic Committee originally idealised their events as competitions among non-professionals whose love of sport was unsullied by commercial motivations.