The person I’m happiest for today is Danica Patrick. The Indy Car driver had been looked at as a freak: a woman in a man’s sport; the poster girl for auto racers – only racing because she is attractive. But all that is over now: she won the Japan 300 Indy Car race this past […]

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In this political season, it is not unusual to dislike politicians on the opposite side of whichever fence you happen to sit on. (No need to bring up my affiliation.) However, I am disgusted by members of both parties today. If you think the hearings on performance enhancing drugs was a colossal waste of time […]

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It was announced today that Houston Astro shortstop Miguel Tejeda is actually 2 years older than he is listed: 33 instead of 31. According the ESPN, Tejada told Oakland A’s officials that he was 17 when he was signed out of the Dominican Republic in 1993, but he was actually 19, meaning he is now […]

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This story has only come to light after an ESPN reporter presented Tejada with a copy of a birth certificate, filed by his father in his hometown of Bani, that showed he was born on May 25, 1974. ESPN hired a Dominican law firm to go after the certificate after clerks at the town hall […]

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I was out of work for 13½ months and it sucked. I hadn’t been jobless since high school, and I went nuts trying to find another job. Ever since then, I have tried to be very careful in calling for someone to be fired, even in the big money world of sports; even though coaches […]

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As we speak, Americans are showing their outrage to the Chinese government by protesting the Olympic flame that is to wind its way through the country on its way back to Beijing in time for this summer’s games. The protests are as a result of the government’s crackdown on Tibetan protestors who want their freedom […]

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These two people have never been seen together in the same place. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Sesame Street’s The Count. Note the resemblance. Are they the same person? You be the judge!

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