I usually hate these types of columns in the newspapers. Why should a reader give a good damn what someone else is thankful for? Unless it’s someone who I know, or a favorite writer, I usually avoid the piece. But this year, I do have a lot of things to be thankful for; several of […]

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Well, it turns out that I didn’t have a portable radio to listen to this morning’s Lin’s Bin on WXRT. A question I sent in many years ago was used as grist for the mill on Lin Brehmer’s show this morning. He sent me an e-mail to make sure that I was still training bankers, […]

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If you happen to be near your radio tomorrow (Friday, November 13, 2009) at approximately 7:15AM or 6:15PM, turn on WXRT to Lin Brehmer’s “Lin’s Bin.” I guess that Lin will be answering a question from your friend and humble narrator (me). I don’t know what the question is (was); it was a long time […]

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I’ve never liked Andre Agassi. I have always respected his tennis talent, but I’ve never thought much of him (and its not because he married the object of my extreme lust, Steffi Graf). It started when he was just getting famous. I was in London in 1991 during Wimbledon and Agassi was the new hot […]

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Most people believe that if one has the talent and the luck to play professional sports, you’ve got it made. One or two contracts, and even the most extravagant person should have enough money to live well for the rest of their lives, and their children should be taken care of. But, like Santa Claus […]

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As you might guess, I am not religious. I am somewhere in the agnostic range most of the time. Since, however, I was raised in the Methodist Church, I don’t go out of way to attack the Christian Church like a Christopher Hitchens (unless they do something stupid, in which I may riff on it […]

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ESPN broadcaster Bob Griese has been suspended one week for a remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya. During last Saturday’s broadcast of the Minnesota-Ohio State, a graphic was shown listing the top five drivers in NASCAR’s points race. Fellow analyst Chris Spielman asked where was Montoya, who is Colombian. Griese replied he […]

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