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You Knew This Was Going To Happen Eventually…

December 12th, 2008 · No Comments

With the NFL season winding down, and the preseason highly favored Dallas Cowboys struggling just to make the playoffs, you knew that eventually T.O. a/k/a Terrell Owens, a/k/a “the ticking time bomb” of clubhouse chemistry, would revert to his old, selfish ways. Reported by ESPN, according to multiple sources within the Dallas Cowboys, Owens has […]

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Cubs Vs. Sox Revisited

December 12th, 2008 · No Comments

A coworker showed me a joke today: White Sox fans go to the White House (Obama); Cub fans go to jail (Blagojevich).

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Packin’ Heat (To What Purpose?)

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

What is it about professional athletes that they think that the world is the Wild West and all of them are Billy the Kid? New York Giant wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the right thigh at a Manhattan nightclub Friday night. Burress was apparently out on the town with teammate linebacker Antonio […]

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Unusual Case At Florida State

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Usually when one thinks of Florida State football players, one thinks of Deion Sanders, a tremendous athlete and exceptional self-promoter, but not a great thinker. In fact, looking at former FSU players, you can see several great NFL players, but you would never think of them as scholars. The list includes Arizona wideout Anquan Boldin; […]

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Just Desserts

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

My feelings on the University of Notre Dame are well known (you only have to look to the top of the site to gain insight), and, in the immortal words of Malcolm X, “the chickens are coming home to roost.” In other words, the Great White Hope, Head Football Coach Charlie Weis, is failing and […]

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Jim Tressel: Classless Jerk

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

About four years ago, I wrote a piece online at Indignant Online about Maurice Clarett, and the way his situation was handled at Ohio State University. I questioned whether Clarett ever deserved to be admitted to the university, but I was also hard on the school and it’s coach Jim Tressel, because it appeared that […]

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Not Allowed To Play With the Big Kids

November 7th, 2008 · No Comments

The Chicago Sun-Times, reporting from baseball’s General Manager meeting, printed today that Mark Cuban’s bid to buy the Chicago Cubs has almost no chance of succeeding. You think? “There’s no way Bud and the owners are going to let that happen,” a baseball source told the paper. “Zero chance.” Tribune Company owner Sam Zell hasn’t […]

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