Since I posted a couple of days ago, convincing stories have been flying all over about Tiger Woods being involved in numerous extramarital affairs. It doesn’t surprise me at all. After all, Woods is talented, rich, famous, clean cut, good looking, in the prime of life. The way I used to see women throw themselves […]

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The Tiger Woods incident has brought me to a point that has been building for a long time and it’s now time to issue it to the world. To all agents, publicists, hangers-on, sycophants and members of the posses of famous people – when something happens, don’t ask us, the public, to respect that person’s/family’s […]

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Earlier this week, former Chicago Bull forward Ron Artest made headlines because he told The Sporting News in an interview that he drank alcohol during games when he was playing in Chicago, in part, because the team lost so frequently. “I used to drink Hennessy … at halftime,” said Artest, who played with the Bulls […]

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As much as the media, the fans, and others proclaim the necessity of sports, especially in schools to “build leaders,” “teach teamwork” and other platitudes, is it all really crap? In light of the economic hard times of the past several months, sports and other extracurricular activities have been downsized, eliminated, or forced the participants’ […]

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For approximately 15 years, when I was writing for The Sportswriters on TV, I have advocated research on football injuries, and I have said that too little was being done to research the effects of football on players after they left the game. My reasoning was simple – when football was evolving, there weren’t 350 […]

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Florida State Head Football Coach Bobby Bowden announced that he is retiring after FSU’s bowl appearance this postseason. Did he retire or was he pushed as Florida State is no longer a national powerhouse is a question that should be asked, but does it matter? Bowden always amused me; kind of a jovial, funny stereotypical, […]

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When someone is great at something, especially if they’re rich, famous and a huge celebrity, when people get a chance to pounce on your image, the vultures stop circling and dive in to feast upon the carrion. Such is what’s happening to Tiger Woods. What we do know for fact is that he had an […]

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