I have meant to address the Jamele Hill situation for awhile, but never got around to it. For those of you who don’t know, Ms. Hill is one of the anchors on the main 6:00 PM Eastern SportsCenter on ESPN along with Michael Smith. They are a departure from the usual SportsCenter anchors – both […]

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The NFL is in trouble. For now, ratings are down; for the future, CTE looms over the sport like a toxic cloud. A nearby suburb is having trouble fielding football teams at the pee-wee level. Yes, there are still plenty of athletes playing high school and college football, but young boys, especially from middle class […]

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For decades now, the opening of the NFL training camps was like Christmas – the anticipation, looking forward to numerous football games: the increase in the monthly DirecTV bill for the Sunday Ticket payments; going out to buy the NFL Preview magazines. This year however, the anticipation is still there, but muted. I have three […]

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Last Thursday Boston Red Sox pitcher David Price verbally confronted TV analyst Dennis Eckersley on the team’s flight to Toronto. Apparently, there were heated words between the current and former pitchers on the plane. The next day, Price met with manager John Farrell and team president Dave Dombrowski, but Farrell didn’t elaborate on the meeting […]

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When I first was laid off, one of the first things I took time to watch was the Oscar winning documentary “O.J.: Made In America.” This is a gripping documentary that gives the watcher a view of being young, black and gifted in America and then, being a famous celebrity in America, and what it […]

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This is a rare, purely political post. You have been warned. Earlier this week, Democrat Jon Ossoff lost a special House election in Georgia to Karen Handel, another GOP operative who is a firm follower of Donald Trump. A number of years ago, I donated money to Barack Obama’s campaign, and as one would imagine, […]

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I should know better than to get into Facebook arguments. I got into some in the past and then, I stopped. A simple, one sentence answer to a question led me into a very dark place. The post was from Pro Football Weekly asking whether or not the fact that quarterback Colin Kaepernick was still […]

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