I have to admit being horrified at the comment of Pittsburgh Steelers Pro Bowl linebacker James Harrison. After last Sunday’s game against the Browns in which he sidelined Browns wide receivers Joshua Cribbs and Mohamed Massaquoi with concussion-causing hits. “I don’t want to injure anybody,” Harrison said. “There’s a big difference between being hurt and […]

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As much as I hate to disagree with my old “The Sportswriters on TV” buddy and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Telander, I must disagree with him about the recent allegations against quarterback Brett Favre. In case you hadn’t heard, Favre has been accused of “sexting” pictures of himself from his cell phone to a New […]

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At this time of year, with the two Chicago teams having been put out of their misery long ago, I can look at the baseball playoffs without the angst of openly rooting for anybody. In fact, since the Cubs and Sox usually don’t make the playoffs, I look over the list of remaining teams and […]

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I had a feeling that the hungry, previously underperforming New York Giants would beat the Chicago Bears last night, but many seem to be surprised at how badly the Giants made the Bears look, especially the offensive line. I’m not. As I wrote last week, I thought that the offensive line is one of the […]

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I realize that it has been many years since I’ve been a single, dating person, and while I don’t remember having a specific rule against dating women in shootouts, I’m sure it was in there somewhere. I mention this for Jacksonville receiver Kassim Osgood. The 30-year-old wide receiver was with a 19-year-old Jaguars cheerleader when […]

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It was reported today that three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain tested positive for a banned steroid in winning this year’s race and has been suspended by cycling’s governing body. A World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited lab in Cologne, Germany, found a “very small concentration” of clenbuterol in Contador’s urine sample on July 21 […]

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Between work, keeping up with the Indignant Family, and the film festival trip, I’ve not been posting as much as I used to (I’ll be getting better soon). I started to write a story on the Denver Bronco wide receiver that killed himself, but I decided what else needed to be said. And I almost […]

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