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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If the NCAA didn’t have enough problems, the scandal that first arose from a report about the University of North Carolina athletes being unable to read and being kept eligible through tutors and “classes” that athletes never had to attend, just write papers that the tutors actually wrote. A report was published today that the […]

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One of the biggest problems with college sports is the attitude by athletic departments, university senior officials, the local police and prosecutors, and sometimes even the student body that the football or basketball teams need to be protected when members do or are alleged of doing despicable things. It was this attitude that led to […]

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It is a common joke that sports teams will employ anyone who can help them win. Michael Vick returned to the NFL after being convicted of running a dog fighting operation and killing dogs on a regular basis. Do you have any doubt that some team will take a chance on Ray Rice now that […]

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