The Milwaukee Brewers announced this week that they would be unveiling a 7-foot, bronze statue of the team’s former owner and current baseball commissioner Bud Selig to be placed outside of Miller Park. Selig led a group that bought the bankrupt Seattle Pilots and moved the team to Milwaukee renamed the Brewers. Some will recall […]

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Well, as you probably know, I wrote for a couple of sports television shows, but I also did Internet reports on the NFL for a friend of mine in England. Well, hoes in Ireland now, but he’s still in the business, so he asked me to do a piece on this Sunday’s “Big game.” (Isn’t […]

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I don’t like all of the attention given to high school football players on “National Signing Day,” which was this past Wednesday. Insteead of just reading in the papers who the top local guys decided to play for in college, it is now a television event, with the ESPN “U” channel devoting 10 hours of […]

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This past weekend and for the past three decades or so, I have ignored the Pro Bowl. Back when I was in my teens, the Pro Bowl was a must see, but it really hit the skids this year. This is saying a lot for a guy who watches a lot of NFL football – […]

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I have tried to avoid the full contact fighting sports. The Indignant Wife hates boxing, so I don’t even follow that anymore, but even if I was still watching boxing, I can’t see myself following two men beat themselves senseless in a miniature “Thunderdome” cage like a old wrestling match. If I want to watch […]

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Well, now we know who will we will get tired of reading and hearing interviews with before the February 7th Super Bowl. Peyton Manning will lead the Indianapolis Colts into Miami for the second time in four years to play the New Orleans Saints, the franchise’s first ever appearance. As I think I wrote a […]

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There are a lot of groaning White Sox fans this week as a result of the question as to whether the Sox would resign former designated hitter Jim Thome. Thome was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers at the trade deadline last year to give him a chance to win a title with that team. […]

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