Lots of times, lawsuits come out of labor negotiations. We’ve seen it in baseball, the NBA, the NHL, the NFL. We fans have seen the lawyers called out whenever labor and ownership can’t come to an agreement. So it appeared to be business as usual when the governing body of soccer in the states, US […]

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It’s Spring and most of the talk in the baseball world is of the coming summer and anticipation of the season. That is, everywhere except with the Chicago White Sox who are the center of the baseball news world since earlier this week. Out of the blue, first baseman/DH Adam LaRoche retired early in the […]

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The rumors have been swirling around even before the last NFL regular season: Detroit Lions superstar wide receiver Calvin Johnson was considering retirement. Well, the 30-yard-old receiver whose nickname is Megatron made it official today by retiring after nine seasons in the league with the Lions. He had reportedly told some teammates entering last season […]

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I have yet to say anything on the Erin Andrews civil suit against a stalker and the hotel she stayed in when the stalker took nude video of the sideline analyst and posted it on the internet. Before we get to the ugly details of the case, let me give my own biases. First, I […]

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Rumors have been floating around Peyton Manning ever since he quarterbacked the Broncos to victory in Super Bowl 50 – would he return and would he be returning to Denver? The likelihood of returned to the Broncos was considered a long shot since John Elway and the team seem confident in last year’s backup turned […]

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Months ago, I stated that the University of Illinois was making a mistake permanently hiring Bill Cubit as its head football coach after the school fired Tim Beckman. I don’t know Cubit and I think he did a decent job last season, but amidst the allegations of racial inequality on many of the school’s athletic […]

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Part of the severity of the NFL’s ruling against Tom Brady in the “deflategate” scandal was the record of cheating by Brady’s team, the New England Patriots. The Patriots were caught videotaping the play calls in a game against the New York Jets in 2007. NFL Commissioner Roger “The Sherriff” Goodell fined the team $250,000, […]

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