Mel Kiper

What smart fans should do this week

SOME THINGS I don't get. Tip jars at the cash register of self-service cafes. Airport security guards who point you to a one-hour line and say, "Enjoy." People who sit for 10 hours watching the NFL draft when they...

Imagine the sales pitch that might have been delivered in the long hallways of a Ministry of U.S. Sports Culture not very long ago: O.K., how about this for a television event. The commissioner of the NFL stands at a...

What to watch and watch for

Football, said George Will, combines the two worst elements of American life: violence and committee meetings. But there's no violence in the football draft—save for the butterscotch dress shirt of draftee Charles...