It is strange irony that in the week the World Series starts (and why do they have to wait 4 days for the start of the Series?) with the Los Angeles Dodgers ,eeting the New York Yankees that Dodgers’ famous pitcher Fernando Valenzula passed away. Young people may be surprised at how popular he was, […]

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Long time readers and friend know that I think that the Big Ten Conference has the worst officiating in all of college sports, especially in football. As a Northwestern Season ticket holder since 1996, I have seen some good football, some bad football, and some mediocre football. Back in the day, I used to yell […]

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When I came back from the Toronto International Film Festival, I was on a small plane and sitting nex to an attractive young lady. We each napped, and didn’t really speak, but as we were getting off the plan, I noticed that the woman was wearing a Yankees cap, backwards on her head. I said […]

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“He was a man take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again.” – Hamlet I don’t think there was ever a time in which I was not aware of Peter Edward Rose. Of course, I was not watching baseball as a toddler, but with all of the baseball fans […]

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Going all the way back to my Sportswriters days, I have always disliked the referees/umpires, whoever was there to officiate the game. The reason was and is that the refs, especially umpires were there to call the game, fairly, and to the best of their ability. No one in the history of sport has ever […]

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Long time readers know that there is no one is all of sports broadcasting that I hate more than Stephen A. Smith. He is a loudmouthed jigaboo who spouts ignorant opinions with an African-American slant that appeals to low intelligence Black people, who feel that he speaks to them in their language, and to low […]

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All the way back when I started writing for The Sportswriters On TV, I have long written that umpires and referees have too much power. The officials, especially baseball umpires, are some of the most thin-skinned people you would ever encounter. I always thought the most exemplary case was that of Robbie Alomar/John Hirshbeck in […]

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