My distain for Oprah Winfrey and all she stands for is well known to regular readers of this blog, but maybe she made a BIG mistake taking her talk show to her own cable channel. Last weekend during the Grammys (that featured the highest rating in years in part due to the fact that Whitney […]

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One of the most alarming books I’ve ever read about the pro tennis tour was “Hard Courts: Real Life on the Professional Tennis Tours” by John Feinstein. In that book (1992), he detailed how tennis parents dominated the player’s life; and in effect becoming the young person’s employees, but with guardian powers over money. The […]

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I subscribe to the Chicago Tribune, mostly for the comics and the fact that The Indignant Wife likes the large amount of sales inserts and coupons that come in the paper. But, I have long disliked the paper’s ultra-conservative slant, and the biased articles about minorities, especially the underprivileged. Once again, the newspaper got my […]

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The old adage is that famous deaths come in threes. It’s a crock, of course, because people die all the time, and of course, when we are talking about threes, when do we start? When do we end? Do two major stars and a movie director count? What about a “key Grip?” While not famous, […]

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Lots of people in my age group are in shock today. Don Cornelius, the founder of “Soul Train,” was found dead in Los Angeles of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 75. Reportedly, Cornelius created a pilot for “Soul Train” using $400 of his own money, I remember watching it on WCIU here in […]

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It’s bad enough that former assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine is under investigation for having forcibly touched young men in the 1980s, but now his wife was in it too? The New York Daily News reported earlier this week that former Syracuse ball boy Bobby Davis says in an affidavit that the Fine’s wife had […]

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I know that over the past few years, I sincerely wished for overblown wide receiver Terrell Owens to please go away. The outlandish antics on the field; the stupid wars of words with coaches and quarterbacks were permitted when he was one of the best receivers in the game, but the NFL is a brutal […]

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