Hazing has been a “rite” for men and women for millennia. Want to be in a club? You have to order the food, or clean up. Want to be in a fraternity or sorority? Weeks of “pledging” await you. And, as shown in fun way back in the television movie “Brian’s Song,” if you’re a […]

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I know that some people will look at this post as another knock on my least favorite university, Notre Dame, and they’d be right, but only a little (5%). There are bigger questions to this that makes this relevant for all of college athletics. Last year, redshirt freshman Everett Golson started at quarterback last year […]

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Somehow something in me never thought there were be a world without Lou Reed. He was too stubborn, too cool, too cantankerous to die. He was the voice of the streets, hustlers and hookers mixed with the artists. In some ways, he was the American version of Keith Richards – yes, we had drug issues, […]

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One thing about today’s political climate that bores me to tears is something happens and then everyone outraged and starts posting things on websites and social media engines. To my chagrin, my liberal brethren have jumped on this bandwagon if only to counter the lies of the Fox News media machine. The latest outrage is […]

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The NCAA announced that the University of Miami football team will be docked three scholarships in each of the next three seasons as punishment for past rules violations. No further bowl ban will be enforced on the school as part of the sanctions. This brings to an end an investigation that has dragged on for […]

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When you look up the work “lousy” in the dictionary, you get three meanings: 1) infested with lice; 2) a. mean or contemptible, and 2) b. wretchedly bad; miserable. The first definition is also used to describe something that is “unclean” or “disease-ridden.” Seldom are the terms used at the same time (in fact the […]

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• Detroit Tiger Manager Jim Leyland told his team after they lost in the ALCS this week that he wouldn’t be back. The 68-year-old Leyland says that a younger man should take on the duties. The Tigers won’t be the same team without him. Leyland is a worthy Hall of Fame candidate ranking 14th all […]

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