Usually, I have good reason to hate a sports team. The teams that appear at the top of this site are either traditional rivals of my favorite teams (Packers, Indians), or have “traditions” or fans that are so obnoxious, that they deserve to be hated (Notre Dame). I can’t say that I have ever rooted […]

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I used to be a big Oakland Raiders fan. When Darryl Lamonica was bombing opponents into submission, I was a fan. Then, the Raiders brought in my favorite quarterback of all time, Ken Stabler, a man who partied all night before a game, and according to his autobiography “Snake”, huddled the defense on the sidelines […]

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SLAM! That sound you hear is the Chicago 2016 Olympic team including Mayor Daley, Patrick Ryan, Oprah, and unfortunately, President and Mrs. Obama being slammed. In fact, the Chicago bid didn’t even make it to the finals. It was the first city eliminated before the International Olympic Committee gave the 2016 Summer Games to Rio […]

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With the Swiss arresting famed director Roman Polanski this week, this may finally bring an end to a 31-year farce. Polanski has lived abroad since being found guilty of giving drugs to a 13-year-old girl that he was photographing for Vogue Magazine and having sex with her. As the father of 2 daughters, I think […]

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All along, I have been against the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid. It was too expensive especially considering how that money could be used for schools and infrastructure; no Olympiad other than Los Angeles in 1980 has ever finished in the black; and I don’t want to deal with the traffic and congestion that we will […]

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I did a rant a few months ago about how so many people, especially African-Americans have their feelings hurt, go to their cars or nearby homes, get arms and come back and shoot somebody. The latest to make the news involved an incident at an adult baseball game. One team had won the first game […]

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When President Obama announced that he would be speaking to school children, the hue and cry came up from the right wing who do nothing other than hue and cry these days. “Brainwashing the children,” they said. “He will be pushing health care reform to our kids,” they screeched. Even with early copies of the […]

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