Long time readers know that I have very little respect for ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit. Having played at Ohio State, he is a rabid “homer” who crabbily puts down any change, advancement to his beloved college football. Of course, since he got his notoriety from being a Big Ten QB back in the […]

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I am, as you know, a film fan: I watch lots of films, attend the film festival in Toronto each year for fun. I believe that I am a knowledgeable film follower. I am also African-American, but being of my age, I guess I’m used to not seeing very many black people in movies unless […]

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I admit that I don’t understand many hackers – breaking into computer systems just to prove you can is immature braggadocio. I do understand the hackers for money, and I do also understand sports fixers. It’s all about money, but like hackers, I do wish they’d go away. We have seen scandals in most sports […]

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The fairy tale that you get from the NFL is – young man from bad home/troubled background is given the chance to play college football, excels, is drafted by the NFL, becomes a big star and lives happily ever after. Of course, the happy ending hardly ever happens: the majority of NFL players go bankrupt […]

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Not The Reaction I Would Have Expected As I wrote last week, it was inevitable that some NFL franchise was going to be moving to Los Angeles, it was just a matter of who and how many. St. Louis, Oakland and San Diego all applied to leave since all three cities refused to pay the […]

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I can’t imagine a world without David Bowie. I guess I did for the first ten years of my life before he released “Space Oddity.” From then on, however, I followed Mr. Bowie through every stage, every musical and stylistic change. For a young black kid who was listening to soul music, but also was […]

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Now, many men my age have been hazed. To join a team, a fraternity, a club, there is a level of hazing. I can’t say that I had much especially since being the member of a fraternity never meant very much to me, certainly not enough to be worth taking the emotional and yes, sometimes […]

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