For the second time in two years, a fan fell out of the stands at a Texas Rangers game trying to get a ball. Shannon Stone, a 39-year-old Brownwood, Texas firefighter, flipped over the railing of the outfield seats, falling 20 feet onto his head and died. The biggest horror was that this all happened […]

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More action in sports today is occurring in legal courts, not on the playing courts, fields, or fields. The NFL and their players are in heavy negotiations trying to come to an agreement. The NBA lockout just started and, as I wrote last week, with no critical deadline approaching, the two sides will do nothing […]

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As the NFL owners and players met last night and plan to meet again next week with the shadow of training camps not opening in three weeks, another sports league has shuttered itself in a labor dispute and it is surprising to me. Why? Because it is the NBA that is locking out it’s players. […]

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A budget stalemate forced a virtual full shut down of the Minnesota government leaving only a limited array of state services in operation over this holiday weekend. Visitors won’t be able to go to the state parks or the zoo, and travelers will find the highway rest stops shuttered. Road construction projects will cease, as […]

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The rumors were true, I guess. It was said that the Los Angeles Dodgers couldn’t make their June 30 payroll without outside funds. With Major League Baseball putting the kibosh on a deal in which Fox would lend owner Frank McCourt more money, the tie was cast. McCourt, recently having settled his multi-million divorce, had […]

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have a friend whose daughter attends university in Vancouver. Originally from the Toronto area, she and her dad were Maple Leaf fans, but in moving to Chicago, the dad, Brian, became a Blackhawks fan (we share the partial season tickets for the Hawks with him and other […]

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Time.com reported this last week, but I didn’t have time to post it then A woman pretended to be a 17-year-old to draw out incriminating evidence from her ex-husband via Facebook, but he turned the tables on her. The pair are in the midst of a nasty custody battle apparently. The woman, 29-year-old Angela Voelkert, […]

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