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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I never write about my work to stay out of trouble, and besides, who wants to hear me bitch about my life? I work in banking and so I get e-mail alerts from various banking organizations. Honestly, sometimes there is no industry that is so pompous and deserving of being “taken down” than banking. Today, […]

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I took some time off this holiday season and spent a lot of it chasing the Indignant Children and watching movies, both in theaters and at home on video. A lot of stuff happened, so let’s go over it: • The well deserved Chicago Bear house cleaning by George McCaskey didn’t go far enough. Ted […]

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Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and family stuff is paramount. So, I bid each and every one of you a Happy Holiday season and a Happy New Year. If I get the opportunity, I will post something here, but I can’t say for certainty that I will.

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Someone contacted me and asked why I never wrote about Major League Umpire Dale Scott came out as a gay man, and there’s a simple reason – it wasn’t news. True equality is when it is no longer news that someone is gay. Only the fundamentalists cant deal with a changing world. Love who you […]

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