The local Chicago media is making a big deal of the titillating trial of Marni Yang, who is standing trial for murdering pregnant Rhoni Reuter, both of whom were having relationships with former Chicago Bear safety Shawn Gayle. Ms. Yang , 43, is accused of killing Reuter out of jealousy over Reuter’s relationship with Gayle. […]

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Years ago, in the midst of the Maurice Clarett incident at Ohio State, I wrote that head coach Jim Tressel had to have known about Mr. Clarett’s lack of educational experience and his penchant for trouble, but rode his young running back to the school’s first national championship then dropped him like a hot potato […]

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I haven’t followed basketball is quite a few years, mostly because I now find the sport boring, but, I have paid more attention recently with the Chicago bulls being better than they have been in a long time. (That’s not to say I’ve watched a game, but, unlike other years, I have actually watched a […]

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I think we all thought that if the anger management sessions took with Chicago Cub pitcher Carlos Zambrano, the fights in the dugout would be a thing of the past, but it turns out today’s cubs don’t even need the season to start to begin brawling. Yesterday, there was another fight, this time between pitcher […]

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BYU center and best player Brandon Davies was suspended from the Cougars’ nationally ranked team for the remainder of the season because he violated the school’s honor code provision that prohibits premarital sex. Davies, a sophomore from Provo High School, acknowledged his transgression to BYU officials on Monday, according to multiple sources. I think that […]

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I hate when the mainstream media makes a big deal out of part of a big story that is meaningless. All over the media – CNN, the Chicago Tribune, so many others, – are headlines that the NFL faces a big deadline tonight when the collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union expires. Yes, it […]

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There has been a lot of comment about the sudden death last week of former Bear safety Dave Duerson. I met Duerson when he was doing the old Back Table show and he was a nice man. He took time to speak with me and we spoke a long time. (It’s funny – the death […]

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