If there is a silver lining to the Donald Trump campaign for President, it’s that women’s rights issues and sexual and spousal abuse are coming to the forefront much more now. Of course, we have to hear the rudest, most vile comments imaginable along with hearing about incidents against women that make one’s blood boil. […]

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Summer is officially over. We’ve had Labor Day; the Autumnal Equinox came and went. Football is in full swing; baseball is winding down, especially for the non-playoff teams. Fall is a time of winding down, the respite before winter descends. Start packing up the summer stuff, get the winter stuff out. Transitions, and not all […]

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In the previous piece, I wrote about saying goodbye to two legends who we have watched for decades: Vin Scully and Arnold Palmer. While it’s sad to say goodbye to anyone, it is natural for it to happen to people in the Autumn of their lives. When it’s someone young – in the prime of […]

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For whatever reason, sports has long been perceived as being very patriotic. The National Anthem is played before most games, many franchises do good work for veteran’s charities. As we found out awhile ago, the Defense Department was paying teams to have veterans at games and to promote militarism, showing that sports owners have more […]

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It’s easy to just get down on athletes when they do something wrong: PEDs, drugs, spousal abuse, and I’m not here to absolve these people from their actions, but there are some whose downfall is just sad, in great part because they were cast in a role their parents wanted, not themselves. We hear all […]

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A couple of people have asked me why, with the banner on this site and my previous comments about my hatred for Notre Dame sports, I have not pounced on the story of the six ND players who ran afoul of the law earlier this week. It was wondered if I was losing my edge? […]

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I’ve been away for a week or so, but I have been following the Olympics and other than some idiotic behavior by some athletes and the news media, the Olympics came off as a great success. No one was injured by violence (more on that in a moment); we didn’t hear of anyone poisoned by […]

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