A comedian I follow on social media asked a very good question as the Winter Olympics begin in earnest – the Games were a big thing growing up and they’re not this year. Why is that? I think there are a number of reasons why this Olympics does not have the same excitement as in […]

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What happens when you really love something, a work of art, a film, a television show or a sports franchise that is/was created, cast with or owned by someone you find disreputable, even evil? In the social media age, and with more sophisticated ways of finding information, people’s exploits, positive and negative are grist for […]

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The other day, I received an email from the Blackhawks. As a partial season ticket holder, I was invited to stream a town hall meeting with senior management, other season ticket holders and certain members of the press. I had to log in to watch this, and I got much more than I bargained for. […]

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After having enjoyed as enjoyable a playoff season as any in sports history, former Dolphins Head Coach Brian Flores dropped a boulder into the lake that is the National Football League. Brian Flores filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL accusing the league of having racist hiring practices. With the league, three teams were named […]

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I know that the title isn’t the exact quote, but I don’t think that pride is enough to capture the attitude involved here. I wasn’t paying attention last night, until this morning when I read the amazing – that Jacksonville had fired Head Coach Urban Meyer. I was not surprised that Meyer got fired; I […]

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I have long aspired to be on TV or radio broadcasting sports. I did basketball analysis of Northwestern Men’s basketball games back in school around 1979-1981. And everyone knows that I wrote for the two television shows back in the day. But I always felt that I would be good being a talking head on […]

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I am wearing a Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Championship t-shirt this morning. It’s one of seven Stanley Cup winner shirts that I own – two from 2013 and 2015 and three from the 2010 title. Of course, we now know that during the 2010 playoffs, the Blackhawks front office covered up and protected their video […]

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