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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As I write this, the USA Soccer Team is about to play Belgium in an elimination game at the World Cup. While I was on vacation, I did watch a few minutes of the US – Portugal match match, and I must admit that it was exciting with lots of scoring opportunities at both ends […]

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Rich people aren’t like normal people. For one thing, of course, they can buy almost anything they want. The people around them don’t dare tell them no. As a result, they believe that the entire world can’t rebuke them in any way, and today’s oligarchs really believe that they are above all law and rules […]

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I know that it is natural as one gets older to have people die who are your age or younger than you are, but it seems unreal somehow, which is how the death of San Diego Padres’ Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn struck me at first. He was born in 1960, same as I, and […]

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