Basketball great Charles Barkley once famously declared that he was no role model.  We believe he was being entirely too modest, that there’s much the sporting world can and should be doing to help our country get back on course...

It's been more than 70 years since the first Kennedy-Nixon debate, and there has been an explosion of media types and formats better suited to test presidential mettle than what debates have devolved to. Here are a few we think are worth running up the flagpole to network execs, whose contact info we've helpfully provided...