Not The Reaction I Would Have Expected As I wrote last week, it was inevitable that some NFL franchise was going to be moving to Los Angeles, it was just a matter of who and how many. St. Louis, Oakland and San Diego all applied to leave since all three cities refused to pay the […]

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I didn’t watch more than a couple of plays this past Monday night of the FBS National Championship football game. I did check my iPad occasionally to see what the score was, but it certainly wasn’t “must see television.” This is surprising considering the fact that I have clamored for a playoff system for years. […]

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January is usually a time when one doesn’t think much about baseball, except for pining for spring training. Except for the fact that every year, many of baseball’s greats and not-so-greats spend time near their phones, hoping for a call from the Baseball Hall of Fame that, hopefully, they had received the 80% of votes […]

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Now, many men my age have been hazed. To join a team, a fraternity, a club, there is a level of hazing. I can’t say that I had much especially since being the member of a fraternity never meant very much to me, certainly not enough to be worth taking the emotional and yes, sometimes […]

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I want to like Peyton Manning. He seems like a decent guy; the kind of guy who would be fun to hang out with; despite his Hall of Fame pedigree, he appears to be down to earth and self deprecating. On the other hand, Manning is one of the biggest owners of Papa John’s pizza […]

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Professional sports franchises move occasionally, mostly over money: not enough support from local fans, but more likely because the city the team currently plays in won’t pony up the millions to finance a new stadium. I have always been against franchises moving unless the residents of a city are really in dire economic straits, or […]

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The NFL regular season is over which means that the first motion of business is to fire coaches that have been on the hot seat, at least in the media and to fans. As always, some rumors turn out to be true; others turn out to be completely false; and sometimes there is a true […]

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