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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When I convinced the Indignant Wife to move to the Chicago area, there was one place I knew we would not be living: my folks’ house in Englewood. It was the only home I had even known until college (and some time afterwards), and it had chicken wire on the 1st floor windows and iron […]

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If I were ruler of the world, I would make every politician from all over the world sit down and watch a segment from the most recent HBO show “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.” Like most other shows of its ilk, some stories are much better than others, but with the World Cup starting this […]

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If all of the antics that occurred this weekend are true, every owner of a sports franchise should thank former Clippers owner and present day pariah Donald Sterling if not give him a big kiss. For those who weren’t paying attention, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has reportedly come to an agreement to buy Sterling’s […]

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One of the positives about sport is that there’s always a winner and a loser, but in the case of the Chicago Cubs versus the rooftop owners that sell tickets to watch games over the left and right field walls, neither side deserves to win. They belong to each other. For those of you not […]

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