The two men charged with severely beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium in 2011, leaving him with brain damage, pleaded guilty to assault charges. Marvin Norwood, 30, and Louie Sanchez, 31, faced charges of mayhem, assault and battery, and inflicting great bodily injury in the beating of […]

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There was an old joke that there are two sports in the South: football and spring football. Passions run deep for college football, and I guess that’s ok until you realize the fact that old alums are gaining their pride on the backs of kids (not to mention the billions of dollars of revenue generated […]

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ESPN texted me and millions of other fans over the weekend to announce that Michael Sam, linebacker/defensive lineman from Missouri and SEC defensive player of the year had, in an interview, announced to the world that he was gay. All of the articles proclaimed, needlessly, that Sam would be the first openly gay athlete in […]

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Along with the story about Michael Sam, the other story that was instantly all over the sports world over the weekend involved Oklahoma State basketball player Marcus Smart. In a road game against Texas Tech, Smart tried to stop a fast break and fell into the out of bounds area. A Texas Tech booster names […]

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I’m a cynic; I admit it. Especially in today’s control the message, anything for good P.R. world, I always take any action by almost anyone and certainly any corporation with a grain of salt. (for example, the way Rolling Stone has been co-opted by the record industry that any “big” record is going to get […]

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A couple of weeks ago, CNN reported (and I blogged on) that many athletes at Division I schools could read only at an elementary school level, not well enough to follow themselves in newspapers or even read multisyllabic words like “Wisconsin.” This week, Chancellor Carol Folt of the University of North Carolina admitted that the […]

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Long time readers know that I am a Northwestern alum and football season ticket holder for nearly 20 years. I am very happy when they win, disappointed when they lose. However, despite a dismal collapse that took my Wildcats from Top 25 ranked to out of the bowl picture entirely, I’m still really proud of […]

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