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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I want to like Peyton Manning. He seems like a decent guy; the kind of guy who would be fun to hang out with; despite his Hall of Fame pedigree, he appears to be down to earth and self deprecating. On the other hand, Manning is one of the biggest owners of Papa John’s pizza […]

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Professional sports franchises move occasionally, mostly over money: not enough support from local fans, but more likely because the city the team currently plays in won’t pony up the millions to finance a new stadium. I have always been against franchises moving unless the residents of a city are really in dire economic straits, or […]

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Soccer’s international ruling body FIFA is as corrupt as Tammany Hall or a Third World dictatorship. It seems that every few months there is another raid on a hotel and various FIFA officials are being arrested for bribery and other crimes. So far, the investigations haven’t been able to pin anything publicly on FIFA President […]

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