If you are looking for another sign of the rot that is college football, you have to look no further than the media coverage of “national signing day” yesterday. High school young men were having press conferences to announce where they will be “attending” school (that is, playing football). Some will become pros, more won’t, […]

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• What a nostalgic Super Bowl – a complete blowout. We had been getting used to close games. • The cliché that “defense wins championships” is not a cliché today. • Is this the official ascension of the black mobile quarterback? Will everyone soon be running the read option? • Did Seattle just score again? […]

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I never took a journalism class, but from various movies, I have heard that one of the cardinal sins of reporting is “never bury the lead,” that is get to the point of the story early. Well, long time readers know that I bury the lead constantly (and am doing the same thing here, alas.) […]

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First, it appears that WXRT has come to an agreement with DJ Tom Marker. Since all WXRT has left is its air talent (since its playlist sucks), it probably isn’t the smartest thing in the world to fire a DJ and piss off the listenership. Alex Rodriguez didn’t just sue baseball over his one season […]

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For a long time, I’ve detailed my argument against WXRT. They are boring as hell, no fault of the DJs who I think know they are playing the same crap over and over again, but they have livelihoods to protect. That’s understandable. And there has been no impetus to listen to naysayers like myself because […]

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Long time readers have followed my complaints that the former progressive rock station WXRT in Chicago has become a shadow of its former self, to which station management thumbs their collective noses at complaints since they are very profitable, especially since they had not competition since WKQX became a news-only station, then a pop station […]

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Yes, Dennis Rodman is an idiot. We’ve always known that. The only thing we can hope is that Kim Jong Un will keep The Worm in North Korea forever. There was a scary report on The Huffington Post yesterday. According to the online news source. Adoph Hitler’s Mein Kampf is the top seller in Amazon’s […]

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