So, all the deadlines, legal wrangling, lawsuits, saber-rattling is over – the players appear to have ratified the new NFL collective bargaining agreement. To my knowledge, no one in the media has reported exactly what the agreement entails, but it sounds like the players get a little less TV money, but they get lifetime health […]

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I’m not big on nationalism and sports, so I’m not sorry that the US Women’s soccer team lost the World Cup final. From what I heard, the US women had numerous chances to put Japan away, but the scrappy Asian women stayed close and won in a shootout. Japan, still reeling from the tsunami and […]

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Over the past two summers, I was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for work and since I was staying downtown, I walked over the PNC Park, paid a mere $27 each time, and had a great seat within the first 15 rows, once behind home plate, the other time behind the White Sox dugout (interleague play) to […]

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If you thought that Jim Tressel and Terrelle Pryor leaving Ohio State would bring the whole sad affair to an end, you’d be wrong. Obviously, the university hoped so, but it saw that the NCAA is bringing the hammer down on the football program; so, the school announced today that it is vacating its wins […]

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For the second time in two years, a fan fell out of the stands at a Texas Rangers game trying to get a ball. Shannon Stone, a 39-year-old Brownwood, Texas firefighter, flipped over the railing of the outfield seats, falling 20 feet onto his head and died. The biggest horror was that this all happened […]

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More action in sports today is occurring in legal courts, not on the playing courts, fields, or fields. The NFL and their players are in heavy negotiations trying to come to an agreement. The NBA lockout just started and, as I wrote last week, with no critical deadline approaching, the two sides will do nothing […]

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I woke up on Sunday, or more precisely, I was awakened by the Indignant Children as always on weekend mornings. Hungry, had enough of being in bed, they cajoled me to take them downstairs for television, playing and breakfast. Most of the time, the television consists of something animated, but the girls were playing which […]

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