One of the criticism people (including me) have for Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is the blind eye they turned on PED use, especially in the years after labor strife caused the cancellation of an entire season. Desperate to get fannies back in seats, the owners and the league were happy to see steroid laden mammoths […]

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It appears that the wings of change are blowing through big time college football. Some of these winds may be a typhoon. Big conferences are discussing paying stipends to athletes, and that and other issues have the big conferences like the Big 12 and Big Ten threatening to break from the NCAA, or at least […]

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That is the common refrain of the career criminal and most kids – I’ve got the game figured out; I can do what I want and get away with it. Of course, most of these people do eventually get caught (or killed in the case of criminals). However, most people grow up and out of […]

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In the same week that MLB Commissioner Bud “Head In The Sand” Selig announced that baseball was “cleaner than it has ever been,” rumors abound around the next round of suspensions for use of performance enhancing drugs. Everyone has been waiting for the shoe to drop in the form of suspensions for the 20 or […]

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I don’t want to write a whole lot on this subject for two reasons: this is far from being an isolated case; and second, I don’t want to single out one player among dozens/hundreds. Former Minnesota Viking/Miami Dolphin quarterback Daunte Culpepper surrendered his nearly 10,000-square-foot home to SunTrust Bank back in April in lieu of […]

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The word “fan” in sports nomenclature is short for “fanatic.” Dictionary.com’s listing for sports fan is “an enthusiastic devotee of sports.” Just two weeks after the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, the town and this writer are still on a high that will last long into the summer. Despite that, even I realize the […]

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There are stories that you know aren’t funny, but… When I first say this story, I thought of a scene from “The Big Chill.” Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Kline are in a field and it is obvious that Goldblum has just finished peeing. He said “that’s the great think about the outdoors – it’s one […]

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