While the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments in full force, it is tempting to enjoy the festivities and forget about the bigger problems the NCAA has. An ongoing FBI investigation has discovered that players from more than 20 Division I men’s basketball programs have possibly broken NCAA rules. Schools identified by Yahoo! as having […]

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There are sometimes stories that make one shakes one’s head in disbelief. No, this is not a political diatribe; there are enough of those already. Because it’s Winter Olympics time, we get to join in the pageantry and artistry of sport. Since it’s the Winter Olympics, not the Summer ones, the U.S. ends up doing […]

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The specter of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE, hangs over many contact sports – hockey, boxing, and especially football. So many former players have died, either through actual illness or from suicide that many parents of young men are not allowing their sons to play football. Teams cannot be formed in many middle class suburbs. […]

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I feel sorry for the Ball brothers. They are young, they are talented, and their father is an egotistical jackass. Lonzo is playing well for a rookie with the Lakers. Younger brother LiAngelo has left UCLA after the Chinese international shoplifting incident. The youngest brother LaMelo was committed to also attend UCLA (Lonzo went there […]

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It’s not going well for Russian President Vladimir Putin. His puppet wannabe dictator in the United States is being actively investigated for help from the Russians in last year’s election; the Obama era sanctions have not been removed. Despite the fact that he announced he would, surprise, be running for reelection as Russia’s “President,” where […]

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Aaron Hernandez, Dave Duerson, Junior Seau, Mike Webster. These are just a few of the NFL players, all dead now, who were discovered to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (“CTE”), a progressive brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. It helped cause their deaths, caused deterioration of their businesses, caused wild, often violent mood swings. Family […]

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I haven’t written in the past about Lonzo Ball and his father LaVar Bell. Since I don’t follow basketball much anymore, I only caught news articles and broadcasts occasionally. I know that Lonzo Ball is a highly touted guard who has been regularly compared with Jason Kidd. He was drafted first by the Lakers, but […]

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