I know that multiple players and their families have sued the NFL saying that the league knew or should have known that playing the sport is bad for your health especially after the discovery of CTE. Now the family of a deceased hockey player is suing the NHL, and while I feel for them, like […]

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Catching up on one from last week, Last week’s call by umpire Angel Hernandez and his crew failing to reverse an obvious home run by A’s infielder Adam Rosales is even worse because they couldn’t even get it righ using video review. Even Major League Baseball admitted the mistake: executive vice president Joe Torre said […]

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I admit that I worry about the Indignant Daughters. They are both very beautiful and are very “girl-ly,” and I have made only half joking comments about building a moat and stocking it with piranha and building gun turrets on all four corners of the Indignant Abode as they get closer to dating age. It’s […]

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The word fan is short for fanatic, which is what sports fans are – rooting on their teams with their entire being. They see calls through their passion; they cheer their teams; they boo the opposition. I know because anyone whose seen me at a Northwestern football game or Blackhawks game knows that I’m anything […]

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All the way back when I wrote for The Sportswriters on TV, I wrote about the incredible hubris of baseball umpires NBA referees, and to a lesser extent, NHL officials. The reason: arguments aren’t one sided, and it has always appeared that baseball arguments were caused/accentuated by the umpire. My prime case was the spitting […]

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I know that I am dating myself here, but when I was growing up, at least in my house, when an African-American person was doing well in sports, we tended to root for them. Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Dick Allen, the late Norm Van Lier were some of the athletes that my family followed and […]

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Finally, we see the cry baby in billionaire Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. Yes, Wrigley Field needs millions of dollars in improvements, and yes, he is hamstrung by the fact that historic Wrigley Field is a monument and requires permission before serious changes are made. He is also hamstrung by the politically connected owners of […]

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