There was a very good story on HBO’s “Real Sports” talking about the decline in golf and some of the extreme measures that certain golf movers and shakers are willing to initiate to save the game. A story on CNN Money highlights the problems and suggests reasons that this is happening. First, the evidence: Adidas, […]

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I admit that I am getting tired of super rich white men trying to either hoist their deluded notions of the world on the rest of us, or, like I believe is the case with Ann Coulter, are using their insane comments to earn money from very dumb people. But, the press tour that Washington […]

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I work in the financial services industry, but I have never been all that interested in companies other than what I need for my job. So, I never understand the mentality of the “investor,” and companies’ slavish intent to do anything for them. Through mutual funds, I guess I am an investor, but not an […]

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My regular job places me in downtown Chicago, and short waves went through the whole downtown when there were reports of a shooting at one of the buildings in the Loop last Thursday. Last Thursday morning, Steven Lavoie, CEO of ArrowStream, a company that focused on technology for food service companies that shipped freight had […]

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As an afterward to my previous story, I have to include this story. There were reports that an experimental drug was being used on the two American medical workers who contracted the Ebola virus. The drug has reportedly worked very well on the two Americans, which is a good thing. My question is: what were […]

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There is hardly any sports fan that hasn’t seen the gruesome leg injury suffered by Indiana Pacers guard Paul George while playing for Team USA in preparation for the World Championships. It ranks right up there with Joe Theisman’s broken leg and Robin Ventura’s ankle break for severity and gross out from the television footage […]

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The NCAA announced that it has reached a settlement in the litigation that began when a dozen college athletes accused the NCAA of putting their health at risk by leaving concussion policies up to individual schools. The settlement is for $75 million, a drop in the bucket compared to the NFL’s $750 million settlement, but […]

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