To many, myself included sometimes, it seems like the world is tilting off kilter. Mass shootings; Tea Party morons; climate change, portions of Chicago becoming war zones. Sometimes,. It’s enough to wonder if people have lost their f#$%ing minds all at once. Sometimes, however, we need to remind ourselves that the world is moving in […]

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Most observers are saying that the NCAA structure is doomed, and that changes are definitely afoot. NCAA President Mark Emmert says that the changes may be coming so quickly that the college sports world may be vastly different in just a year. I don’t know if that will happen that quickly, but change is definitely […]

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They both moved from New York City to the West Coast; both have had years of great success; both have had years of terrible baseball. But what makes the San Francisco Giants-Los Angeles Dodgers rivalry deadly? A man wearing a Dodgers hat died Wednesday from a stab wound suffered in a fight between fans of […]

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According to most studies, people learn by watching other people then usually by doing. While I do not condone bad behavior by athletes nor do I absolve them of responsibility for those errors, I do shake my head at the people they are around, often adults, from the time they appear to be talented athletes. […]

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Work and family have kept me away from the site this week, so I have to catch up on a couple of things and hope to be better going forward. There was a scathing expose in Sports Illustrated over the past couple of weeks detailing how money was being funneled to football players at Oklahoma […]

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While music has “charms to soothe the savage breast,” some music I guess can drive people to violence. A 54-year-old North Charleston, South Carolina woman was charged recently with cutting her housemate with kitchen knives because he wouldn’t stop playing music by The Eagles. The woman was arrested and booked on “criminal domestic violence of […]

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I hadn’t heard anything about boxer Tommy Morrison in some years, but if you had bet me if this would be the next headline the former heavyweight champion would create, I would have bet on what happened this past weekend. The former heavyweight died Sunday. He was 44. The family would not disclose the cause […]

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