As I stated earlier, I attended the Chicago Blackhawks convention last weekend, and in general, it was a bore (at least if you have even been to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto as I have numerous times). The first thing was that it started on Friday evening. I thought it would be all […]

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I could be mistaken, but are there tons of people in the cycling world anxiously waiting for Lance Armstrong to be formally accused of cheating? The vultures are certainly circling: Floyd Landis, who has already been banned by cycling authorities for performance-enhancing substances, said that he and Armstrong used drugs together and that Armstrong helped […]

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When I was thinking about this post, at first I thought I had two separate stories: Rod Blagojevich bringing his children to court on the day that closing arguments were to be made in their dad’s corruption trial. The other story was about Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano apologizing to his teammates on ESPN before making […]

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I used to read an excellent movie magazine called Premiere; it had enough gloss for the ordinary celebrity magazine (with little tabloid stuff) and enough business insider material to satisfy anyone who doesn’t read Variety. But the magazine “jumped the shark” in one of its last issues, when it featured numerous pictures of Lindsay Lohan […]

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I know that it’s been almost 2 weeks since the NCAA announced its ruling to punish USC for recruiting violations, made them forfeit some games from 2004 and almost forfeit the 2004 national championship. The school will not be allowed to participate in post-season football for the next 2 years. But, nowhere to be found […]

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As I stated last week, I have wanted to comment on the movement of colleges following “the money.” We knew that the Big Ten was going to expand, and needed to because 11 teams are too unwieldy to schedule, but the simple addition of one school to balance the schedule soon turned into speculation that […]

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Some people have wondered why I haven’t mentioned the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. Some say that I won’t criticize President Obama and his administration. Well, I’m not afraid to do that – he left too many of former President George W. Bush and particularly Dick Cheney’s pro-oil guys in charge of regulating […]

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