Mike Ditka is revered in Chicago, first as the tough pass catching tight end and then the coach of the Super Bowl Champion 1985 Chicago Bears. Here, he is an icon, a marketing star, at least in this area. He had been an NFL analyst, okay as a personality, but increasingly out of step with […]

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We all knew that it was just a matter of time before ESPN “punished” sports anchor Jemele Hill for her tweet that Donald Trump is a white supremacist. Never mind the fact that the tweet is true, the White House has put pressure on the network to fire Hill. Of course, a much classier President, […]

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Yesterday sucked. There’s no other way of putting it. We had the massacre in Las Vegas – 59 people killed (as of now) and over 500 wounded. The powers that be are issuing their “thoughts and prayers” empty comments with no meaningful gun control in sight (in fact gun stocks went up yesterday after the […]

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Yesterday, the media reported that coaching assistants of three schools along with numerous representatives of shoe companies and others were indicted for bribery involving payments to players and their family members in return for the player agreeing the play for a certain university. In addition, it was rumored that another school located in Kentucky was […]

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All over the nation, schools and non-for-profit organizations are having problems fielding football teams. One northern suburb of Chicago very close to where I live, Highland Park, has cancelled their young football league, much due to the fear of CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, brain damage which apparently comes from sports injury, especially football. This week, […]

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This morning, ESPN and CNN blared with breaking news that four assistant basketball coaches from Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and the University of Southern California were among those arrested on federal corruption charges after they were caught taking thousands of dollars in bribes to steer NBA-destined college stars toward certain sports agents and financial advisers. […]

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As the NFL, player protests and presidential tweets are the stories on the front pages and lead the sports sections all over the country, another story concerning a practice nearly as old as racism, is rearing its ugly head in the area right where I live. The subject is hazing. It is defined as “the […]

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