We who have played sports, even on a playground know that sport teaches you teamwork, determination, and (hopefully) good sportsmanship. These are all life skills that kids need to learn and ones that you use for a lifetime. Unfortunately, organized sports all too often teach our kids a lesson in the real world: hypocrisy, rules […]

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Lots of work and lots more snow shoveling has kept me away from the blog the last couple of days, but I have four NFL stories that need to be discussed: The Super Bowl was everything a football fan would want – exciting, down to the last seconds dramatic. The commercials were mostly lame. The […]

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One of the results of a win at all costs mentality is that one is more then willing to bend, if not break the rules. The upside is that you win; you get all of the rewards, money, fame, glamour of the winner. The only downside (in the short term) is if you get caught. […]

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Yesterday was Super Bowl media day, a day that is a press conference, or actually many press conferences mixed with ants descending on an ice cream bar dropped on the sidewalk in the summertime. Journalists from every published, broadcast, and online outlet in the Western world asking questions both smart (occasionally) and dumb (mostly). Every […]

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The “investigation” into the deflated footballs continues by the NFL. A member of the Patriots’ crew has been identified as taking the footballs from the AFC Championship Game into a bathroom for whatever reason. It looks like he is going to be the patsy to take the immediate fall for the Deflate-gate incident, which of […]

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I wasn’t always a White Sox only fan. In fact, when I was a kid, I loved the Cubs, especially Ernie Banks. My grandmother managed a grocery store on the South Side where Ernie’s first wife shopped (yes, I know, she took and tried to sell a lot of Mr. Banks’ memorabilia). Ernie was Mr. […]

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I admit that I almost feel for the Ricketts family, owners of the Chicago Cubs. They bought the Cubs thinking that it was just real life fantasy baseball, where they could be their own GMs, perhaps bring a title to the North Side after 106 years, and make a tidy profit in the process. Unfortunately, […]

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