Last week, I wrote how I felt that Michigan State University fans were the most boorish assholes in the Big Ten, and if it weren’t for Notre Dame, they would be the biggest assholes in the nation. Well, I had that brought back home to me last weekend. It was Northwestern’s Homecoming game, and the […]

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Things have fallen together well for your friend and narrator in this year’s Major League Baseball postseason. First, the hated Minnesota Twins meekly succumbed to the Yankees. As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I won’t root for the Twins or anyone else in the White Sox’ division. Then the Yankees got beat and […]

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Long-time readers know that I am a fan of Northwestern football; I have had season tickets for home games since 1996. I openly root for Northwestern, and I usually yell at the referees, and the opposing team’s fans, who sit one section over from my tickets, do annoy me from time to time. But there’s […]

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Hockey players, for the most part, begin playing as children and that consumes them. Games, junior leagues, and all-star teams take precedence over everything, including education. Which is a nice way of saying that hockey players are generally not known for their intellectual expertise. However, even the biggest goon who has had his brains bashed […]

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I sometimes get pushback when I suggest that there are some baseball franchises that deserve to be eliminated unless they get an owner with EXTREMELY deep pockets and alternate sources of income where he/she/they/it can run the team as a hobby, with little concern for profitability. The Pirates, Brewers, Marlins, and Royals are the teams […]

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Many Chicago Cub diehards are groaning today because former shortstop Ryne Sandberg was passed over for the manager’s job. Instead, the team returned the reins to former interim manager Mike Quade. Some of the local papers have said that the former career minor league manager comes cheap at a time that the Cubs have among […]

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I have to admit that in today’s sports world, I came to some conclusions before I even finished reading about former NFL linebacker Junior Seau yesterday. Seau was arrested on a domestic violence charge in Oceanside, California, shortly after midnight Monday. Police were called to Seau’s residence to investigate a report of an assault late […]

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