The NFL, specifically Commissioner Roger “Goofball” Goodell, has taken its sweet time handing down a ruling regarding New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s appeal of his four-game suspension stemming from Deflategate, and now, one potential reason many have been identified. According to Bleacher Report, who quoted Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, “settlement discussions have indeed […]

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I have often said here that I really feel sorry for athletes. Yes, they have fame and often wealth, and can get away with a lot, but on the other side, they never know who to trust. And for all of the deserved blame that they get for fathering lots of children, some of these […]

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I haven’t written much here on the Bill Cosby saga, mostly because there’s very little that I felt I could add. I never doubted the women at all; many of them were telling their stories with no financial upside and no possibility of criminal charges because the statue of limitations had past. Cosby, always most […]

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In this country, people actually paid attention to women’s soccer as a result of the run by the U.S. team. In a record-shattering World Cup final, the U.S. Women’s soccer team beat Japan 5-2 last Sunday, and even I, soccer ignoramus, watched the first 15 minutes in which the U.S. women blitzkrieg’d Japan with four […]

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I am going to take a couple of days off from the site, but I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy July 4th holiday. With the Confereate Flag going away, the Affordable Care Act standing the test of a frivolous lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court, and of […]

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One of my favorite overlooked movies is a Roy Scheider, John Badham directed thriller called “Blue Thunder.” The film was about a plot to bring military style helicopters to Los Angeles (sounds eerily prescient, doesn’t it). Anyway, the part of the tired, put upon sergeant was played by the great Warren Oates in his final […]

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Of course, I pay very little attention to golf – I have never had any interest in it. But I am often interested in its personalities: Tiger, Rory McIllroy, and Phil Mickelson. The big left hander who always looks to me like Hugh Grant having a bad day has not won a major tournament in […]

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