With the NHL holdout now over 1 month old, the players’ association tried to restart negotiations with the league this week, but the league declined. Commissioner Gary “Labor Stoppage” Bettman said this week that it is getting to be unlikely that a full season will be played this year, even more so now that the […]

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Several short stories: • First, I don’t understand cheating and losing. I mean, if you are going to all the effort of breaking the rules, your rules breaking should be successful. So, I don’t understand the San Diego Chargers. Apparently, the NFL is investigating whether the San Diego Chargers used a banned sticky substance during […]

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Americans are weird beings in that we love to elevate our heroes in sports, politics, even business, to pedestals so high that the person being adored can barely be seen from the ground; and we seem to take glee in taking out the steely knives to bring the person back to earth, especially if that […]

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I had the honor to know Bill Jauss, retired Chicago Tribune sportswriter and panelist on “The Sportswriters on TV.” Jauss died today at the age of 81, joining Joe Mooshill, AP writer and “back-up” TV sportswriter, who died a couple of weeks ago. In many ways, it was Jauss who got me involved with that […]

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I mean us as the United States; isn’t it only Third World and former Eastern Bloc countries who engaged in outright cheating? It was reported today that short-track speed-skater Simon Cho said that acting on orders from national team head coach Jae Su Chun tampered with the skates of a Canadian athlete at the 2011 […]

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With the 2012 election getting closer and closer, a whole bunch of famous people are coming forth with their opinions, which is their right, but some people’s endorsements come with a definite grain of salt. Creed lead singer Scott Stapp stopped by “Fox & Friends” (of course) to announce that he will not be voting […]

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Long time readers know that if it’s early September, it’s time for my annual Toronto International Film Festival trip, which is where I’ve been. Fourteen films in 6 days left me tired, bleary-eyed, but I did see some fine films (the annual summary is coming). In the mean time, there have been a few things […]

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