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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A few months ago, I posted a rant here about how tired I am of getting constant snail mail from charities that I support begging for even more money. Now, I’d like to speak about political contributions. Long time readers know that I am VERY liberal and consider myself a Democrat only on my most […]

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To many sports fans, player agents are the lowest form of human life: pimps/con men/lawyers who use any means necessary/available to negotiate huge contracts for their clients and get 10-15% of the big contracts. (Of course, to most fans, the owners of sports teams are perhaps slightly higher on the evolutionary scale as the agents.) […]

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As I wrote here a few days ago, Alex Rodriguez made no friends among his fellow players when he sued both Major League Baseball and the Players Association as a result of the arbitrator’s decision to uphold a major portion of Rodriguez’s suspension for alleged PED use in the Biogenesys affair. Rodriguez claims that the […]

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I know that he is a very successful football coach (he could join the only two coaches to win a national championship in college football and win a Super Bowl – barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson), but Seattle Head Coach Pete Carroll is sleazy. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Potash this morning was almost genuflecting to […]

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