It is a longstanding journalistic standard to publicize a big news exclusive. After all, journalists are in the business of selling papers, generating ratings for television shows, getting eyes on commercials. However, sometimes, what is listed as a bombshell merely confirms one’s opinion of a person or team or league. ESPN’s Outside The Lines is […]

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In the argument about the naming of the Washington Redskins, I have admitted that as a kid growing up, I never heard anyone complain, not even the friends I had who had more Native American ancestry that the rest of us. As the complaints got louder and more and more people began to stand up […]

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As you may know, I wrote for The Sportswriters on TV, and I can’t help believing that somewhere Bill Gleason is smiling. The late Daily Southtown writer and Sportswriter created a big stir at a press conference after one of the Chicago Bulls’ championships, Gleason asked Michael Jordan about Nike mistreating Asian workers who made […]

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As noted everywhere today, 2016 has been an absolutely brutal year for artists. In less than one-third of a year, we have already lost Alan Rickman, Doris Roberts, Chyna, George Kennedy, Garry Shandling, Harper Lee, Nancy Reagan, Abe Vigoda. Musicians have been particularly hard hit; the year started with the death of David Bowie, then […]

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Everyone, all 7 billion people on this Earth, and entitled to their own opinion, no matter how stupid, backwards, racist or just plain ludicrous they are. (However, people are not entitled to their own facts as the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Monaghan correctly stated.) However, when you’re a celebrity, your comments carry much […]

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I have long thought that former sports superstars would not make good coaches. In almost every major sport, superstars have thought that their knowledge of the game and the players’ perspective would make them great coaches and front office members. In football, former Super Bowl Champions Bart Starr, Forrest Gregg, among many others have tried […]

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I’m no wrestling fan – I haven’t been since I was around 13 and found out that the whole thing was fake. (I remember working the old International Amphitheatre and “opponents” Dick the Bruiser and Ernie Ladd sitting in a private room in the back deciding “how much we gonna give ‘em (the crowd) tonight?”) […]

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