It seems that sport seems to make computers go crazy. There is the BCS computer which has been wrong as often as right over the years. But there is no computer more bizarre than the tennis computer that determines and men’s and women’s rankings. Case in point; once again, Caroline Wozniacki came into a Grand […]

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. – William Shakespeare (All’s Well That Ends Well Act iv. Sc. 3) By now, everyone knows of the death of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno yesterday. The 85-year-old Paterno died 85 days after being fired by Penn State Trustees […]

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Super Bowl 46 is now set – a rematch from four years ago – the New York Giants vs. the New England Patriots. As to rooting factors, it’s a toss-up: New Yorkers make you want to root against them at every opportunity; and Boston are no longer the loveable losers, they have won and shown […]

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There have been and will be numerous articles and television specials to commemorate Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday today, and I’ll add my own birthday greetings to the man who may have been the most important sports figure of my life. My grandparents, who were sports fans, but didn’t like strident black athletes or performers, were […]

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I wrote on Facebook yesterday after the football games were over that now that the Tim Tebow led Broncos and the dreaded, hated Green Bay Packers have been eliminated from the NFL playoffs, our long national nightmare is over. Bible-thumpers and cheeseheads can go back to their little lives. Normally, if my team is no […]

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I’m not proud of this, but I do think that sports agents are some of the scummiest people on Earth, right down there with used car dealers, lawyers and corporate CEOs. I admit to being ashamed when I read that former super-agent Leigh Steinberg filed for bankruptcy protection this week, said that he takes responsibility […]

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Happy New Year to everyone. The Indignant Family went away for the new year, and your friend and humble narrator is rested and ready to start 2012. but before we get started on the new stuff, let’s briefly touch on the issues that happened while I was gone: • Alabama soundly defeated LSU in the […]

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