Football players don’t have to be great thinkers. They have to run and catch and tackle better than anyone on the planet. They are behemoths who also happen to be superb physical specimens. They don’t have to compete for Rhodes Scholarships. However, almost all of them attended college, at least for football practices and games. […]

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As I wrote just a few weeks ago, spring is one of the best times of the year: the weather is warming (occasionally here in Chicago); baseball has begun; and there’s the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The best hockey players in the world (especially now that the Iron Curtain has been melted into slag) playing the […]

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You came back from Vancouver and everyone thought that we had the advantage in the best-of-seven series against the banged up Canucks. But, for the third straight game in the second round of the playoffs, you guys came out flat in the first period, fell behind by 2 or 3 goals, but, unlike other games […]

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You know what I mean – the couple who stay after you want to go to bed. The folks who you are glad to see early in the evening, but by midnight, they have overstayed their welcome. That’s where we are with future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre. We all remember the quandary he […]

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I believe that it’s stupid that there’s no playoff in Division 1A college football, but I also believe that the last people the world need to come up with a solution is the American Congress. But that’s becoming more possible with lawmakers having college football officials appear before a Congressional committee. Rep. Joe Barton of […]

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A new book by Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts casts another cloud over the public perception of baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez. The book entitled “A-Rod,” to be released later in May, reports that the slugger took performance enhancing steroids in high school and his coach knew it. The coach, Rich Hofman, has denied this. Further, […]

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Long time readers know that I have been estranged from the sport of basketball for several years. I haven’t watched any basketball since the Michael Jordan era with the Bulls, but it’s not because I got spoiled by winning. It’s because I was bored with the two man game. You know what I mean: instead […]

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