I admit that I was very bored in the early stages of the lockdown back in March/April with nothing to watch: no movies; no restaurants; and especially no sports. I admit that life improved immeasurably when the NHL, the NBA and Major League Baseball went into full or partial bubbles and played games. Hockey was […]

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The 2020 election is over, but the division in the country is as yawning a chasm as ever. As much as some people don’t want sports and politics to mix, sport has always been an important step in racial equality. What does that mean now? There was the Colin Kaepernick incident and failure of the […]

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When the Big Ten changed their minds about playing football, I was skeptical. Unless you were a senior or had a serious chance to go to the NFL, I felt that the other players could use to time to work on studies and not take the beating that a Big Ten football season takes on […]

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I know that this site is best known for griping – about athletes, about agents, and especially about leagues and owners, but I have to give the leagues some credit, in the midst of the pandemic, the NBA, has done a great job in playing through. Major League Baseball has done a good job overall […]

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With all of the unrest that is going on in the world, and with sports significantly curtailed as least as a live spectator event, one would think that maybe that’s the reason that I haven’t been posting as much here. The truth is simpler – more work, more duties, less time. However, there was a […]

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The pandemic has exposed many things, good and bad about the country, the world, and the sports world. The NHL and NBA play on in their bubbles (the hockey players apparently doing a much better job that the NBA who had a few players sneak out to break the quarantine, got caught and in trouble […]

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I’ve not posted for awhile, in great part because I didn’t see any way that sports would be returning in 2020. The pandemic, the hurdles and obstacles just seemed to be too much. Already some schools have cancelled all sports until 2021. I was about to agree, let’s not even try, let’s wait until next […]

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