The big story in the NFL is the looming lockout/work stoppage and while Commissioner Roger Goodell and MFLPA chief DeMaurice Smith have been saying publicly that the sides have to come to an agreement soon, it really looks grim. The owners walked out of the last meeting, and the league later filed an unfair labor […]

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My stereotypical portrait of a college bowl official is an overweight, white, balding man in bad clothes who has a bag of money that he dips into to pay off the NCAA and colleges and universities. Morals? Not important. Scruples? HA! Well, maybe this one is closer to the truth than I realized. The CEO […]

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So much for the comeback of Peter Forsberg – two games into the comeback, he announced his retirement from hockey. As it turned out, the chronic foot problem that robbed the former NHL MVP since 2003, robbing him of chunks of his career, was too much for him to overcome. (I commend the Colorado Avalache […]

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So, the people of Green Bay, Wisconsin have a reason to continue living – their Packers won the Super Bowl yesterday. Already I’ve had people contacting me to rub it in – fine, have your fun. It was a very good game, however. It’s interesting: some people are saying that the Steelers could have won […]

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It seems like every year, Peter Forsberg leaves the NHL, then at some point rumors abound that he is returning. Forsberg, a former league MVP, signed a $1 million prorated contract to play the rest of the season with his old team – the Colorado Avalanche. The 37-year-old Forsberg has been out of the league […]

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If it’s January here – cold, snowy, generally unpleasant; it must be time for the opening of the tennis season at the year’s first major – the Australian Open. For the men, we expect a continuation of the Rafael Nadal – Roger Federer grudge match, except it never came to be. Nadal lost to David […]

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It was reported this week that college football conferences will get approximately $170 million from this year’s Bowl Championship Series games, which is a record. Some $24.7 million has been paid to the five conferences that don’t get automatic bids to the BCS bowls., also a record. BCS officials say the huge dollars were fueled […]

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