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Rooting For The Underdog, Or Should I Say, Under-bull

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments

I have been to Mexico a few times, and I have been to the bull fights a couple of times. I think it is barbaric and I never liked it (I went the second time with The Indignant Wife who had never been). I always rooted for the poor bull, which is drugged and already […]

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Can’t Pitch Out Of This One

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Former major league pitcher Roger Clemens was indicted for obstruction of Congress and other charges related to statements he made to a congressional committee in 2008. Once again, it appears that Roger Clemens does not think that the normal laws apply to him and that he can bowl over Congress and the law like he […]

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Chairman of the BORED!

August 18th, 2010 · No Comments

I’m bored with the big stories of the day. All I can come up with are shorts: • Rod Blagojevich was found guilty of 1 count under the indictment; judge declares a mistrial on other 23 counts. This means we have to go through this all over again. Oh boy! • By the way, who […]

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Dynamiting The Bridge On The Way Out

August 17th, 2010 · No Comments

Gracing the cover of GQ magazine this month, LeBron James gave an interview with the magazine in which he blasted Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, and growing up in Akron, Ohio hating Clevelanders. James said he doesn’t think Gilbert, who bashed James in a letter immediately after he announced his decision to sign with the […]

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No Freedom Of Expression

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments

One of the benefits of being a sports fan is the chance to boo or heckle a player, a coach, team management, or ownership (or all of the above if you can do it). But freedom of expression is not valid in Bethlehem, Pa., the site of the Philadelphia Eagles training camp. Jim Devlin of […]

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On Second Thought….

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Isiah Thomas will not be returning to the New York Knicks after all. Thomas announced yesterday that he was declining a position as a consultant with the franchise he ran for 4½ years because it may not be legal. “After speaking with Commissioner Stern and Knicks executives, it has become apparent that my new agreement […]

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Calling It Correctly

August 10th, 2010 · No Comments

One wouldn’t invite Shaquille O’Neal and ESPN host Jim Rome to the same party (unless of course, you’re mean like me and would like to see the little man beaten to a pulp). In an interview Monday on a Washington D.C. sports radio program, O’Neal emphasized his point that Rome has no legacy. “One, I […]

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