It looks like you don’t want to invite the Bash Brothers (Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco) to any party you may be planning (personally, I wouldn’t want to be in the same room with either of them, apart or together.) McGwire and Canseco were the most feared 1-2 home run hitting combos of the late […]

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Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was given a two-game suspension for a domestic violence incident in the offseason. Rice allegedly knocked his then-fiancée unconscious in an elevator in an Atlantic City casino last February. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is once again on the hot seat, since players who violate the league’s drug policy automatically […]

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The media is making a big thing out of the murder rate in Chicago, but yet again, oversimplify the problem. First, it should be noted that the murder rate in Chicago is half what it was in the early 1990s, and murder per capita is near where it was during the Johnson administration. However, the […]

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Former NFL Head Coach and current NBC NFL analyst Tony Dungy opened up the can of worms earlier this week in an interview with Ira Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune. Discussing St. Louis Rams’ draft choice Michael Sam, who just happens to be the first openly gay player in the NFL, Dungy said “I wouldn’t […]

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I have never been a Denver Broncos fan: I hated the Orange Crush back in the 1970s and I have never liked John Elway as a player or as a member of the front office. However, I always admired Bronco owner Pat Bowlen, and am saddened by the announcement that Bowlen, 70, has transferred control […]

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It has been obvious for several months that the NCAA is imploding. The continued scandals, health and concussion issues, the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit, the NLRB ruling that Northwestern athletes are school employees are all part of the gathering momentum that the college sports business model is coming apart. Another factor has been the big universities’ […]

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Increasingly, I have come to believe that more corporations are inherently evil. They are sociopathic in the extreme, concerned only with the bottom line. Cut corners for profit, cause injury or death – just as long as its profitable. Fire tons of people, leave formerly middle class areas a barren wasteland – who cares, we […]

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