I know that the title isn’t the exact quote, but I don’t think that pride is enough to capture the attitude involved here. I wasn’t paying attention last night, until this morning when I read the amazing – that Jacksonville had fired Head Coach Urban Meyer. I was not surprised that Meyer got fired; I […]

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Hagar The Horrible cartoon many years ago – Hagar breaks the 4th wall and speaks directly to the reader “Friends are good, but friends come and go. Now take an enemy – a good enemy lasts a lifetime.” Everyone should know that I have no love for Notre Dame. Anything that brings shame to the […]

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The landscape of college football keeps getting stranger and stranger. Players can receive some money as part of their scholarships; athletes have control of their likenesses and can sell them; conference memberships are swirling around like the ball on a roulette wheel; the transfer portal is more important than recruiting if you want to build […]

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Ever since the end of the 2021 Major League Baseball season, the clouds of labor strife have been hovering over the sport. Just a short time after cheering over 25 years of labor peace between the owners and the MLB Players’ Union, the sides are reportedly far apart in negotiations and as of tomorrow, December […]

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The seat under Chicago Bears’ Head Coach Matt Nagy has been hot for two years now. After two consecutive 8-8 records, the fans were calling for Nagy and GM Ryan Pace to be fired after last season but instead, CEO George McCaskey refused, giving the pair one year to “show progress.” Pace appeared to do […]

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I have long aspired to be on TV or radio broadcasting sports. I did basketball analysis of Northwestern Men’s basketball games back in school around 1979-1981. And everyone knows that I wrote for the two television shows back in the day. But I always felt that I would be good being a talking head on […]

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I am wearing a Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Championship t-shirt this morning. It’s one of seven Stanley Cup winner shirts that I own – two from 2013 and 2015 and three from the 2010 title. Of course, we now know that during the 2010 playoffs, the Blackhawks front office covered up and protected their video […]

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