Well, a delayed flight notwithstanding, your friend and humble narrator has arrived in Toronto for his 13th Film Festival. My first film is not until tonight, an Asian action film (par for the course for me), then tonight, the new film from the director of Academy Award winning “A Separation.” I’ll try and keep you […]

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I had heard rumblings for years that Bobby Riggs has thrown his match against Billie Jean King, but ESPN has been reporting some new information. Hal Shaw, now 79, was one of the golf pros at the Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa, Fla., a mob-connected (owned?) golf club in the 1970s. He […]

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Much like the NCAA, there is a certain hypocrisy to being a news broadcasting entity like ESPN reporting controversial information on a league that you broadcast. Eventually, the league is going to tell you to back off, and you’re going to do it. The latest instance was reported in The New York Times this week. […]

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It is time of year for Christmas for movie fans – the schedule is out for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and yes, once again, I will be there watching at least 10 films. But there is a quandary that I get in from time to time and its happening now… I often pick […]

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A common sports euphemism concerns the pressure on athletes to perform and win; we use the sayings “having or getting the monkey off one’s back.” Sometimes it’s a 600 lb. gorilla; other times, it’s a stuffed monkey like Northwestern football head coach Pat Fitzgerald had at the last two bowl games (when NU “got the […]

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A few quick thoughts: • I’m going to need a defibrillator to watch the rest of the games in the Stanley Cup Finals. I want the Blackhawks to win so badly I can barely watch. • Whenever someone dies, I automatically think of the family left behind, especially young children, which makes the sudden and […]

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Long time readers know that I’ve been bored by the NBA for a long time, and don’t usually pay it much attention, but a few things have crossed my mind this week: • I was watching ESPN and they were publicizing a documentary on the NBA Network: “The Doctor.” Fortunately, the hotel I’m in this […]

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