If there’s one thing that can be said about New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, it is that he will do ANYTHING to save his own ass. Even though he has denied publicly numerous times that he took performance enhancing drugs, the Miami Herald reported this week that Rodriguez admitted to DEA officials in […]

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Over the past several months, there have been reports of the academic scandal at the University of North Carolina. A former tutor turned informer reporting that many athletes were illiterate, didn’t go to classes, or had work done for them. She was met with threats and derision. The NCAA investigated and couldn’t find anything. Now, […]

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CBS Sports is reporting that Florida State quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston will declare for the 2015 NFL Draft “no matter what happens in the second half of the season.” Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports reports (reported by SI.com) that Winston is not considering dropping out of FSU amid investigations into both […]

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Speaking of Florida State and young Mr. Winston, there was quite a long article in the New York Times on Sunday that detailed how the local police department handled FSU athletes very differently from other students and non-students. The article detailed a pattern that validates the lax investigation of criminal sexual assault charges against Jamaeis […]

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My feelings on the St. Louis Cardinals are very obvious – all you have to do is look at the banner on the top of this site. My initial reason for this was because as an Andy Frain usher, the rubes and country bumpkins who descended on Wrigley Field every year were a pain in […]

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Often, we see professional athletes start their own charities to support various causes. However, it appears more and more that the charity is a tax dodge, or a public relations vehicle. Sometimes we hear that the money that is supposed to go to the charity never does any good, except to the athlete. We have […]

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For decades, the International Olympic Committee (“IOC”) has made out like bandits. They auction off the rights to host Games for billions of dollars from the countries and the municipalities (both over the table and under the table in the forms of money, but also “favors” including sex and other perks); share none of the […]

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