I have a mixed attitude when it comes to the NCAA. They have the unenviable job of policing college sports, usually with an insufficient staff, but the encyclopedia of rules they are trying to enforce are complex and often contradictory. On top of that, they are policing a group of colleges that essentially hires and […]

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I hardly ever read Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Morrissey mostly because I don’t like his style, but I did read today’s column and it hits home. One of the major stories of this Super Bowl is that it will be the last time middle linebacker Ray Lewis ever straps on pads in an NFL game. […]

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Long time readers know that I have very little respect for Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig. Despite all of the revenue gains, which is the only thing the owners care about, any positives that the sport has made under Selig’s watch are greatly overshadowed by his cowardice in dealing with performance enhancing drug situation in […]

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I have written for sports since 1990; I have watched sports for as long as I can remember (I vividly remember watching Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers on television in their rookie year with the Bears and that was 1965). I thought that I had seen just about everything in the world of sports. I […]

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There are so many football stories this week. Let’s take them in brief… • First, we have to discuss the Chicago Bears hiring Marc Trestman as the 14th Head Coach in the team’s history. Trestman was surprising to some since he has been out of the NFL for eight years, spending the last five years […]

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For only the second time in four decades and just the eighth time since voting began in 1936, the Baseball Writers of America elected no one to the Baseball Hall of Fame this year. The writers were expected to ignore steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa who all appeared on the ballot […]

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The Penn State/Jerry Sandusky scandal goes on. Sandusky’s counsel has filed an appeal that the defense did not get appropriate time to prepare. OK, that is what is expected to happen in the American Criminal Justice System. My question concerns what the State of Pennsylvania is doing. The State, not the university mind you, is […]

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