NFL’s Pro Bowl is over. (Did anyone watch? I didn’t.) {Actually the Pro Bowl got a 7.2 rating which was higher than Game 1 of the World Series, which goes to show you that there’s a lot of people with nothing better to do.} So it’s on to the final chapter to the season. The […]

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I hardly ever read Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Morrissey mostly because I don’t like his style, but I did read today’s column and it hits home. One of the major stories of this Super Bowl is that it will be the last time middle linebacker Ray Lewis ever straps on pads in an NFL game. […]

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Long time readers know that I have very little respect for Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig. Despite all of the revenue gains, which is the only thing the owners care about, any positives that the sport has made under Selig’s watch are greatly overshadowed by his cowardice in dealing with performance enhancing drug situation in […]

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I have written for sports since 1990; I have watched sports for as long as I can remember (I vividly remember watching Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers on television in their rookie year with the Bears and that was 1965). I thought that I had seen just about everything in the world of sports. I […]

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There are so many football stories this week. Let’s take them in brief… • First, we have to discuss the Chicago Bears hiring Marc Trestman as the 14th Head Coach in the team’s history. Trestman was surprising to some since he has been out of the NFL for eight years, spending the last five years […]

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I used to hate the Denver Broncos. I know it’s not on the top of the site, but trust me, I never likfed the Broncos. As usual, I hated their fans, who were high altitude rubes. It didn’t help that I always hated John Elway. That came from when he was drafted by the Colts […]

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For only the second time in four decades and just the eighth time since voting began in 1936, the Baseball Writers of America elected no one to the Baseball Hall of Fame this year. The writers were expected to ignore steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa who all appeared on the ballot […]

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