Finally, after months of blackouts and finger-pointing, the corporate pissing contest between Comcast, owner of the Versus cable channel and DirecTV have come to an agreement. DirecTV had pulled the plug on Versus last August because DirecTV wanted to place the cable home of the NHL among other things, on a higher price package. DirecTV […]

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All over America and the world, people are filling out NCAA men’s basketball championship brackets, and that’s fine. Lots of people will be following the tournament from work and have illegal office pools and the like. Personally, I have grown bored with basketball, so I won’t be participating, but that’s fine. But, of course, the […]

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It is completely fitting that Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland” hauled in a record amount for a non-sequel this past weekend, because it was an unreal weekend for me. Let’s count the ways: • Did the McCaskey family suddenly get the spirit of George Steinbrenner? The Bears went out on the first day of free […]

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I have to admit that I keep hearing Prince’s song “Delirious” when I read this, and even now, as I type. One of the things I like most about sport is that you can judge someone performance all the time, real time, and, with ESPN, You Tube and other resources, you can watch an athlete […]

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So, Tiger Woods finally emerged from seclusion and sex addiction rehab to speak to the media for the first time since his Thanksgiving car accident and all of the revelations of multiple marital infidelities. The announcement contained no real surprises other than Woods trying to quash rumors that wife Elin had hit him which led […]

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Some people have asked why I’ve done nothing on the Winter Olympics, currently running from one of The Indignant Wife’s favorite places in all the world – Vancouver, British Columbia? The honest answer (besides having been as busy as two people over the past week) is that I’m ambivalent. It honestly hasn’t been as captivating […]

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As a “semi-pro” sportswriter, there is nothing that aggravates me more than when someone who is getting paid to report sports makes an egregious error, or obviously either don’t know what they’re talking about or haven’t done their homework. An honest mistake, or simple misstatement is one thing, but when they obviously are incompetent, it […]

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