The admission that Alex Rodriguez took performance enhancing substances has created a huge ripple effect on the game of baseball. Rodriguez held, what should be considered an ill-considered press conference that only made things worse for the third baseman. He said that an unnamed “cousin” of his purchased an over the counter steroid he called […]

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Newsday and the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday that Commissioner Bud Selig feels that he bears no blame for the steroid catastrophe that blossomed on his watch. In a lengthy telephone interview, Selig, the former used car salesman and one time owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, disputed the widely held perception that he was in any […]

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Robbie Alomar was a top second baseman for the Blue Jays, Orioles, Padres, Indians and White Sox in a playing career that spanned from 1988 to 2004. In that time, he was an All Star 12 times; had 10 Gold Gloves; won two World Series titles with Toronto; had a .300 lifetime batting average, had […]

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As gifted and talented as Alex Rodriguez is, it is obvious that he never cultivated his mind as well. First, he married a woman much older than he, and one cannot say that she didn’t see him as a multi-million dollar merger instead of a relationship. So, the marriage ends. What does Rodriguez do? He […]

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Hi folks; the Indignant Family has returned from Disney World, and the Indignant Oldest Daughter had a great time; so much so that she was exhausted by the end of the trip, and was a real monster coming home. But, she had a great birthday. I had a number of thoughts as we went around […]

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Olympic swimming superstar Michael Phelps was photographed by a U.K. newspaper dragging on a bong, or, in other words, smoking marijuana. Phelps, backed by millions of dollars in corporate funds quickly issued an apology, and writers around the country including the Chicago Sun-Times’ Greg Couch were all over the gold medalist’s second “lapse of judgment.” […]

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Several columns at once: • The game was better than I thought it would be. Arizona almost won the game, but I’m glad they didn’t just so that it wouldn’t justify Bill Bidwell’s mismanagement for 40 years. • The game however, showed the problem with the NFL today – parity has become parody. By record, […]

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