The current and former New Orleans Saint players who were implicated and suspended for the Saints’ bounty program had every reason to believe that having current Commissioner Roger Goodell’s suspensions adjudicated by former commissioner Paul Tagliabue would be tainted by conflict of interest, but it looks now like Tagliabue tried to have it both ways. […]

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A few months ago, I think I wrote that Bobby Petrino would be back in the coaching ranks, and now he is. Petrino is now the head coach of Western Kentucky. In case you’ve forgotten, Petrino was fired by Arkansas last April for a “pattern of misleading” behavior following a motorcycle accident. The coach was […]

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By now, if you follow sports, you have heard about the tragedy of Jovan Belcher, the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker who murdered his girlfriend and killed himself. (It should also be noted that Eric Eucker, one of the team’s groundskeepers at the Cleveland Browns practice facility was found handed in the stadium on Saturday, but […]

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This is not funny but in Amsterdam, a linesman at a youth soccer match has died after being beaten and kicked by several players. Richard Nieuwenhuizen collapsed and was rushed to the hospital hours after players from Amsterdam club Nieuw Sloten punched and kicked him. Nieuwenhuizen’s club, Buitenboys, announced the death but not the exact […]

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I’m getting as tired of writing about the NHL lockout as you probably are of reading about it. The sides still have not come to an agreement, and they have invited Federal mediators to come in and try to get the sides together, but no one is optimistic about this having any effect on getting […]

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In a related hockey story, a writer in The Hockey News wrote a couple of issues ago that Commissioner Gary “The Count from Sesame Street” Bettman, as the second longest tenured commissioner in NHL history behind Clarence Campbell, is a serious candidate for enshrinement in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Bulls#$t! Bettman has expanded the […]

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I never had the opportunity to discuss the murder of former champion Hector “Macho” Comacho. I saw a lot of Comacho’s fights and he was a fine fighter and decent champion. What is more interesting is the murder. If you didn’t hear, Comacho was shot in the neck and face while sitting in a car […]

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