It’s tough, but we may have the 2010 poster child (accent on “child”) for spoiled, selfish athlete. Marlins star shortstop Hanley Ramirez failed to hustle for a ground ball Monday night, and Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez yanked the 25 -year-old. Instead of taking the punishment like a man and perhaps learning from the incident, Ramirez […]

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Seven more wins and the Blackhawks win Lord Stanley’s Cup for the first time in 49 years. It’s far from over; but they may be on the brink

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It’s time to call San Jose’s Joe Thornton a bust. Not in the regular season where the gargantuan forward is always among the league leaders in points. It’s in the playoffs where Thornton disappears. It’s the reason the Bruins shipped him to California several years ago: not a leader; disappears in the playoffs. Since joining […]

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The output has fallen of on the site lately – I’ve been working and traveling, but I have to share two road experiences. First, I was in Boston teaching a class, and I finally got the opportunity of going to a game at Fenway Park. It is a beautiful, historic ballpark, and my friends and […]

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From time to time in my career, I’ve had to interview people for jobs, and in every case, I’ve had to go through training to make sure that I ask appropriate questions. Questions about race, sex, religion, sexual preference are not allowed by law. Above that, these types of questions are irrelevant – they have […]

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It was announced this week that Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer and long time television personality Bob Uecker is scheduled to undergo heart surgery on Friday and will need two to three months to recover. Uecker, a Hall of Fame announcer, won a World Series ring with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1964 and played in […]

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When he came out of LSU, I thought that quarterback JaMarcus Russell had a bright future ahead of him. Even though he was drafted by the Oakland Raiders, Al Davis’ team always emphasizes the long bomb, stretch the field philosophy. It has been hard to watch Russell get chance after chance, but still not be […]

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