One of the main problems of football and basketball coaches in unbelievable hubris. They believe their own hype; they believe that they are infallible, above the law, above reproach. College coaches are even worse than their counterparts in the professional leagues. College coaches make more money than college presidents; athletic directors wield much more influence […]

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If it were anywhere else except Texas, we wouldn’t be having this issue. Ezekiel Elliott is going before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in an attempt to grant him an injunction that allows him to keep playing while his case against the NFL progresses. For those with short memories, the Dallas […]

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For the past few months, it was considered a fait accompli that the NFL would renew the contract of Commissioner Roger Goodell. He has brought untold billions of dollars to the league, which is the main job criteria of any commissioner to his bosses, the owners. But the Ray Rice incident, Deflategate, the Ezekiel Elliott […]

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Before the season started, I wrote here that I was having a problem getting geared up for the NFL in part because no team has signed quarterback Colin Kaepernick as a result of his national anthem protest last season. Every available quarterback from every league has gotten an opportunity before Kaepernick. As usual, the old, […]

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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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