Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 15, 2025

Bench them

Why is Zipper’s chin guard loose? Is he afraid his goatee will get wrinkled??

According to a survey, most Americans believe that RFK, Jr. will be the first Trump appointee to lose his job.

Say goodbye to the basket of coeds.

…from drinking unpasteurized milk, or not getting the bird flu vaccine, or from eating raw road kill, or all of the above.

Are they a Division III team with Zipper on it?

It should be the Walden curse. A jinx is more of a physical thing

And that means what to me?

Can’t win for losing, eh BD?

I like this. Some people make way too big a deal about sports, but Zipper has priorities.

See what peer pressure will do to you?

Somehow, I don’t think what the QB called was in the playbook.

And the crowd goes wild…

I went to a brand new high school. When it opened there were two classes, freshmen and sophomores. I was a sophomore. In the three years I went there we did not win a football or basketball game. In my senior year we made the sports section of the Chicago Tribune when we played another school that hadn’t won a game. We lost.