• Detroit Tiger Manager Jim Leyland told his team after they lost in the ALCS this week that he wouldn’t be back. The 68-year-old Leyland says that a younger man should take on the duties. The Tigers won’t be the same team without him. Leyland is a worthy Hall of Fame candidate ranking 14th all […]

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Grambling State’s venerable football program, headed for years by Hall of Famer Eddie Robinson – one of winningest coaches in NCAA history, has fallen into disarray. The historic black college has had an up-and-down record since Robinson retired after the 1997 season after enduring two consecutive 3-8 records. The team hired alum and former NFL […]

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Back when I was attending Northwestern University and covering the basketball team for the campus radio station, I attended a question and answer session with then Head Men’s Basketball Coach Rich Falk. Falk wasn’t much of a coach (nor has anyone in Evanston up to now since the Wildcats are the only Division I school […]

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Rather than take his medicine like a man, Alex Rodriguez once again is trying to fight his way out of the 211-game suspension Major League Baseball issued the Yankee third baseman for violating baseball’s drug agreement and labor contract. Earlier this week, Rodriguez’s counsel tried to portray his as duped into taking banned substances, and […]

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Quarterback Josh Freeman lives up to his name today – he is a “free man.” Heralded as the starter in Tampa Bay coming into the season after having been the starting QB there for several seasons, suddenly Freeman is out of a job today. This is as much a result of the toxic relationship between […]

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The hearing concerning Alex Rodriguez’s 211 game suspension is in full gear, under the radar as the Major League Baseball playoffs are moving along. Rodriguez’s representatives are presenting his case in front of an arbitration grievance hearing. What does he attribute his failed tests? He says that he thought the substances he used from the […]

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Over the past 48 hours, two men lost their head coaching/managing jobs. In one instance, a smart but abrasive young coach gets canned and there is a lot of people happy about this; for the other, a seemingly nice guy was put in the unenviable position of being manager of a bad ball club treading […]

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