New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter announced on Facebook yesterday that the upcoming 2014 season will be his last. Jeter has been the Yankees’ starting shortstop since 1996 and led them to five World Series titles. Jeter will turn 40 in June and is coming off a 2013 season in which he played just 17 […]

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There was an old joke that there are two sports in the South: football and spring football. Passions run deep for college football, and I guess that’s ok until you realize the fact that old alums are gaining their pride on the backs of kids (not to mention the billions of dollars of revenue generated […]

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ESPN texted me and millions of other fans over the weekend to announce that Michael Sam, linebacker/defensive lineman from Missouri and SEC defensive player of the year had, in an interview, announced to the world that he was gay. All of the articles proclaimed, needlessly, that Sam would be the first openly gay athlete in […]

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Along with the story about Michael Sam, the other story that was instantly all over the sports world over the weekend involved Oklahoma State basketball player Marcus Smart. In a road game against Texas Tech, Smart tried to stop a fast break and fell into the out of bounds area. A Texas Tech booster names […]

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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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A couple of weeks ago, CNN reported (and I blogged on) that many athletes at Division I schools could read only at an elementary school level, not well enough to follow themselves in newspapers or even read multisyllabic words like “Wisconsin.” This week, Chancellor Carol Folt of the University of North Carolina admitted that the […]

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