I like sports memorabilia. I like owning sports stuff, but I don’t have the money to spend on serious amounts of it. (The Indignant Wife holds the purse strings tight, let me tell you!) But that’s OK because I don’t like the concept of “investing” and I don’t like being ripped off. On the former, […]

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I had the opportunity to spend the last few days in Pittsburgh, and it is a nice little city. It’s very pretty, on the three rivers, with the bridges. Downtown is nice in spots, but it is spread out between nice places. It even has a very nice up-and coming restaurant/shopping district called South Side […]

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The Chicago White sox are my team, but they drive me crazy. This season, they have been in first place for over 110 days, but never without drama. This week, they won two of three from the Tigers in Detroit, but lost 3 of 4 from their nearest competitors, the Minnesota Twins. As of this […]

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Speaking of doing all that a team can to win, the Blackhawks did something that may be almost as important as any on-the-ice moves they have made. The team hired Scotty Bowman as a special advisor to the team. Bowman, already inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame, a man who has coached teams to […]

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Before we begin, let me apologize. It has been a hellacious week at work, and something had to suffer, so it was our little party. Hopefully, it will get better and I’ll be more regular. Call me old-fashioned (happens all the time); call me a traditionalist but I remember a day when you checked ESPN […]

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I have long supposed that it was eventual that we would have a brawl in the WNBA, despite the “fairer sex” and all of that. Yes, there is much less testosterone flowing on the court, but when you have professional athletes, no matter what their gender, trying to win a game, competition often wins out. […]

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I must admit that I never felt much about the role of “Sports Psychologists.” Snake-oil salesmen, insurance and car dealers were on the same rung in the job hierarchy in my opinion, but maybe Greg Norman needs one, or, more likely, needed one a long time ago. “The Shark” had never won a major tournament, […]

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