As the NFL owners and players met last night and plan to meet again next week with the shadow of training camps not opening in three weeks, another sports league has shuttered itself in a labor dispute and it is surprising to me. Why? Because it is the NBA that is locking out it’s players. […]

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The rumors were true, I guess. It was said that the Los Angeles Dodgers couldn’t make their June 30 payroll without outside funds. With Major League Baseball putting the kibosh on a deal in which Fox would lend owner Frank McCourt more money, the tie was cast. McCourt, recently having settled his multi-million divorce, had […]

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Right now, both of the top men in the world, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are both in tight matches, and if either or both fall, the men’s bracket would really be up for grabs at Wimbledon. But it would just look like the women’s draw. Over the weekend, everyone talked about the miraculous return […]

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have a friend whose daughter attends university in Vancouver. Originally from the Toronto area, she and her dad were Maple Leaf fans, but in moving to Chicago, the dad, Brian, became a Blackhawks fan (we share the partial season tickets for the Hawks with him and other […]

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“Fairy tales can come true; It could happen to you; If you’re young at heart” – “Young at Heart – music by Johnny Richards and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. When the NBA Playoffs started, I was rooting for the Bulls, but barring that, I wanted anyone to win other than LeBron James and the Miami […]

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As a brief respite in the economic problems in Cleveland, Ohio, the sports fans there are rejoicing today, as are many NBA and sports fans elsewhere. You know that it would take quite a villain to make people happy to see Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks win an NBA title, and there is one – LeBron […]

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It’s bad enough that the hated Vancouver Canucks are one game from winning the Stanley Cup, but they continue to make people hate them by saying stupid comments. Goalie Roberto Luongo, who fluctuates between hero and goal faster than any player in the NHL to the silly Vancouver fans, was talking about the crucial goal […]

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