With the big budget film “Concussion” starring Will Smith coming out very soon, the topic of long term head injuries is once again front and center in the sports consciousness. This past week, the New York Times published an editorial questioning whether parents should allow kids to play football, given increased awareness about the long-term […]

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I’ve been extremely busy, so I haven’t had the opportunity to post here for awhile. But the sports world keeps on turning and so, I’m going to blow through the backlog of evil opinions: • There was no greater fun being in a Packer fan’s house on Thanksgiving with the Bears winning. I yelled at […]

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I have said that the daily fantasy sports game giants DraftKings and FanDuel are a pipe dream of the “20-something, baseball cap backwards wearing, ‘I know more about sports than anybody crowd.’” However, I have never thought that there any way to make them go away other than to get people to understand that their […]

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I have been fairly busy, but I have wanted to comment on Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy. Hardy has been a troubled customer ever since he came to the NFL, but over the past few weeks, he has become Ground Zero for what’s wrong with every NFL player, if not professional athlete. In 2014, […]

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For some reason, it is more obvious in hockey than in other sports when players get tired of a coach and lay down to get him fired. We’ve seen it many times (and it’s been suggested even more often). Seldom do you see a team band together around a coach and staff other than go […]

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One of the funniest National Lampoon magazine covers had a female Soviet bloc woman athlete in her running clothes with a noticeable bulge in the crotch. Back in those days, we used to joke about ice skating scores coming in “9.5 from the German judge; 9.8 from the U.S. judge – Oh: 4.3 from the […]

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I have said this before, but Missouri in many ways, should be located in the Deep South, especially in terms of the relationship between the races and the relationship between people of color and government/police. I have never felt comfortable the times I’ve been there, and all one has to do is look at not […]

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