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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Long time readers know that I am a movie fan. All you have to do is look up my annual Toronto Film Festival reviews to learn that. As such, I get really annoyed when people talk in movies; I have come close to fisticuffs at various times over the year. The latest rude behavior in […]

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For a long time, I’ve detailed my argument against WXRT. They are boring as hell, no fault of the DJs who I think know they are playing the same crap over and over again, but they have livelihoods to protect. That’s understandable. And there has been no impetus to listen to naysayers like myself because […]

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The arbitrator for Major League Baseball and the Players’ Union ruled on Friday, shortening Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez’s 216 game suspension for his involvement in the Biogenesys scandal, but upholding the suspension for the entirety of the 2014 season and postseason. Of course, “His Royal Deludedness” has already said that he will sue in […]

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