With the big budget film “Concussion” starring Will Smith coming out very soon, the topic of long term head injuries is once again front and center in the sports consciousness. This past week, the New York Times published an editorial questioning whether parents should allow kids to play football, given increased awareness about the long-term […]

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No, I don’t mean bowling on lanes in ugly shoes; I mean college football bowl games. There is always a risk in sport that the regular season is made completely irrelevant by expanded playoffs. The NHL had a big problem with that in the 1980s and 1990s, when teams played 82 games seasons to eliminate […]

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Yeah, I know; I took this from former Cardinal Coach Dennis Green talking about the Chicago Bears several years ago, but after last Sunday’s shoddy loss to San Francisco, it is perfect for the current Chicago Bears, and is actually a blessing in disguise for the franchise. The Bears are notably better than they were […]

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I’ve been extremely busy, so I haven’t had the opportunity to post here for awhile. But the sports world keeps on turning and so, I’m going to blow through the backlog of evil opinions: • There was no greater fun being in a Packer fan’s house on Thanksgiving with the Bears winning. I yelled at […]

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I used to be a big boxing fan. I paid for closed circuit fights in theaters and on television; at least I did before I married the Indignant Wife. She hates boxing and for that and a lack of compelling fighters as in the “good old days” of Ali, Foreman, Hagler, Hearns, Leaonard, et.al. The […]

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I have said that the daily fantasy sports game giants DraftKings and FanDuel are a pipe dream of the “20-something, baseball cap backwards wearing, ‘I know more about sports than anybody crowd.’” However, I have never thought that there any way to make them go away other than to get people to understand that their […]

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I have been fairly busy, but I have wanted to comment on Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy. Hardy has been a troubled customer ever since he came to the NFL, but over the past few weeks, he has become Ground Zero for what’s wrong with every NFL player, if not professional athlete. In 2014, […]

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