I feel for Northwestern Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald. He and the university have had to walk a very thin line when former quarterback Kain Colter and the team filed a case with the National Labor Relations Board that athletes are employees and should have the right to unionize as such. Of course, I don’t think […]

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Ordinarily, an athlete taking time off to be with his expectant wife would be an item for the back of the sports page, unless it was your home team’s media; then it would be in the paper, but no one would make much of it. That is the case unless, of course, the city is […]

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I have been taking the commuter train to work a few days this week, and I noticed some advertising all over Ogilvie Transportation Center. The Ad says “Still Illinoyed?” Indiana, the State that Works!” Of course, this is aimed at the higher costs and pension difficulties of Illinois and trying to get companies to move […]

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The Indignant Girls were on spring break last week, so I took some time off, but in my absence, a couple of items deserved comment. The first and most important was the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that Northwestern football players were employees and have the right to form a union. Personally, I […]

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ESPN and SI.com are reporting that Phil Jackson is very close to a deal to take control of the New York Knicks’ basketball operations. Jackson, of course, played for the Knicks and despite winning 11 NBA Champions as a Head Coach in Chicago and Los Angeles, in his heart he has always been a Knick, […]

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I used to be a basketball fan. The grace, the fluidity, and way the game was played was just magnificent. Today, with everyone standing around; passing between two or three players; the game is dull, which is why I no longer watch. However, Wizards center Marcin Gortat, son of an Olympic medalist boxer, has an […]

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Does anyone other than me find it contradictory that the 13 part update to Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking “Cosmos” is on nine Fox cable networks? First, the show is hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, a doctor of astrophysics, so he’s very smart, and he happens to be African-American. Second, the portion of the first show I […]

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