When the Big Ten changed their minds about playing football, I was skeptical. Unless you were a senior or had a serious chance to go to the NFL, I felt that the other players could use to time to work on studies and not take the beating that a Big Ten football season takes on […]

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I know that this site is best known for griping – about athletes, about agents, and especially about leagues and owners, but I have to give the leagues some credit, in the midst of the pandemic, the NBA, has done a great job in playing through. Major League Baseball has done a good job overall […]

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I was asked by my friend Steve Bynum from WBEZ to speak about the passing of Hall of Fame Chicago Bear great Gale Sayers, and I felt it was important to follow up on that here. It has been heartrending to see Mr. Sayers wheelchair bound, unable to speak, suffering from dementia. Visits to Soldier […]

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Twenty-five years is a long time. A quarter century; longer than the lives of both my children. Longer than I’ve lived in this house. So much has happened in 25 years, and most of the time, unless it was a personal event, a birth, a death, an accident, you don’t remember where you were on […]

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With all of the unrest that is going on in the world, and with sports significantly curtailed as least as a live spectator event, one would think that maybe that’s the reason that I haven’t been posting as much here. The truth is simpler – more work, more duties, less time. However, there was a […]

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The pandemic has exposed many things, good and bad about the country, the world, and the sports world. The NHL and NBA play on in their bubbles (the hockey players apparently doing a much better job that the NBA who had a few players sneak out to break the quarantine, got caught and in trouble […]

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Just as the rest of the year, news stories happen even quicker in the pandemic environment. It seems like there are stories every few minutes that change the landscape, demand attention. Since I have not been keeping up like I should, let’s talk about sports in the time of Covid: It is being written that […]

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