• Is there anyone more cursed than figure skater Nancy Kerrigan? Known best of course, for being knee-capped by a bodyguard for rival Tanya Harding, this week, her dad was beaten to death, apparently by her brother, who is being held in the murder. What a life this woman has had. • Tim Tebow has […]

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In this troubled time when jobs are scarce (6.1 unemployed people for every open position) and people are nervous, in the unreal world of sports, jobs are plentiful and the usual football college and NFL coaching merry-go-round is in full swing… Assistants are fired; new assistants step into their place, and of course, the jobs […]

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President Obama gives credit for his happy marriage to ESPN’s SportsCenter. He says that he watches it everyday while working out and the First Lady says that she knows more about sports than she’d like… Well, that’s what’s helped work for me and the Indignant Wife. She is a sports fan and we used to […]

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For a very long time, I have taken issue with the umpires, referees and people who officiate sporting events. Many times they are all too human instead of the objective adjudicators they are paid to be. NBA refs have “sent a message” to players they don‘t like; umpires have players they don’t like. Or they […]

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I don’t think you could have grown up here in Chicago without knowing the radio ads for U.S. 30 Drag Strip in Indiana. Now, exactly where in Indiana, I couldn’t tell you, but I know about the strip because of the radio announcements. “Sunday! Sunday!! SUNDAY!! At Smokin’ U.S. 30 drag strip….” And on would […]

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Less than one week after failing to generate nearly enough votes to make Baseball’s Hall of Fame, Mark McGwire is finally coming clean (as it were). The beefy slugger sent a message to the Associated Press admitting what was painfully obvious: he used performance enhancing drugs. According to the statement, this is due to his […]

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• An important question: how stupid is Rod Blagojevich? Like Paris Hilton about 1 year ago, he seems to be everywhere – plugging his book, “Celebrity Apprentice.” And now he’s made a comment (and apologized for it) for saying that he (Blagojevich) was “blacker than (President Barack) Obama.” Of course, this is pretty stupid since […]

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