Dear Mr. Delany, I have been a season ticket holder for Northwestern University football since 1996, but been watching Big Ten athletics since 1976, the year before I entered NU. Since 1990, I have written for 2 sports television shows (“The Sportswriters on TV” and “The Back Table with Chet Coppock”) and various web sites. […]

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It may be the fact that ESPN is covering sports all the time, but testosterone levels in its Bristol, CN. headquarters may be out of control, especially among the baseball announcers. Baseball analyst and former New York Mets General Manager Steve Phillips is the latest member of the “Baseball Tonight” group to be accused of […]

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The documentary “The Corporation” shows that one of the weaknesses of American jurisprudence is the ability of corporations to act as “individuals” in a legal sense. As such, the government can’t give corporations the “death penalty” if they continually break the law, pollute, etc. Unfortunately, corporations can suffer the same “sins” of hubris, and pride […]

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Let’s face it, athletes attending Florida State University weren’t recruited for their intellectual acumen. People like Deion Sanders and others went to school to play sports and every NCAA rule was bent if not snapped into little pieces by Bobby Bowden and the administration. This week, after months of appeals, and wrangling over public records […]

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There are times when African-American “Leaders” should keep their mouths shut. Both the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton sent letters to the NFL asking the league to reject the bid of racist conservative Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams. The letters have led the league to issue its own statement that […]

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All too often, today’s modern athlete is bashed by retired athletes for their seeming lack of social conscience or at least public comments on public issues. Part of this is that times have changed, and in most ways for the better, but it is also due to the big money and high profile of athletes […]

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Usually, I have good reason to hate a sports team. The teams that appear at the top of this site are either traditional rivals of my favorite teams (Packers, Indians), or have “traditions” or fans that are so obnoxious, that they deserve to be hated (Notre Dame). I can’t say that I have ever rooted […]

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