For a few years now, the “business model” that has made billions of dollars on the backs of unpaid “student athletes” has been crumbling. The head injury settlement; the ongoing courtroom fight over paying players like employees; the big conferences being allows to break slightly from the rest of the NCAA in adding stipend money […]

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Jaromir Jagr is one of the best players ever to play professional hockey. He has been playing for over 20 years in the NHL and KHL and is still a very good forward for the Florida Panthers. The 43 year-old Jagr has a serious chance to pass Gordie Howe for third all time in career […]

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Last week, the Blackhawks training camp opened at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana and Patrick Kane, under investigation for rape in upstate New York not only attended, but he also faced the press. He said what one would expect: he is innocent and expects to be vindicated in the process, but he can provide […]

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The Blackhawks resigned defenseman Michael Rosival to a one-year contract over the weekend, and I have to ask: why? Rosival has still not able to skate since he broke his ankle in last year’s playoffs, and despite the minutes he was able to post allowing the top defensemen to rest, Rosival showed his age before […]

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I’ve been away on my annual Toronto Film Festival trip, but I couldn’t help noticing the story of two Texas high school football players tackling a referee from behind and jumping on top of him. At first, it appeared to be an unwarranted, unheard of attack on an official. No matter what, there should be […]

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Readers of this column can probably ascertain (being smart people) that I am a long time tennis fan. I have followed the sport for a very long time and I realize that, like much of the sport’s fans and certainly its sponsors and pundits, we have not given nearly enough credit to Serena Williams. I […]

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I admit that even though I live in the Chicago area and am pretty well known in my suburb and by my neighbors, I do worry sometimes if I run the risk of being injured or killed by overzealous police officers for “walking while black,” or “driving while black.” One would think that an older […]

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