I have to admit that I was wrong – I didn’t think NFL Commissioner Roger “The Sherriff” Goodell had the balls to uphold the 4-game suspension levied to Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady in the “Deflate-gate” incident. There were stories that Brady’s people and/or the NFL Players’ Association were negotiating a deal. Brady wanted to just […]

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The NFL, specifically Commissioner Roger “Goofball” Goodell, has taken its sweet time handing down a ruling regarding New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s appeal of his four-game suspension stemming from Deflategate, and now, one potential reason many have been identified. According to Bleacher Report, who quoted Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, “settlement discussions have indeed […]

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I have often said here that I really feel sorry for athletes. Yes, they have fame and often wealth, and can get away with a lot, but on the other side, they never know who to trust. And for all of the deserved blame that they get for fathering lots of children, some of these […]

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Over the 26 years since Peter Edward Rose agreed to be suspended for life from Major League Baseball, I have been a defender of him being in the Baseball Hall of Fame. That he bet on baseball as a manager was unquestioned, but I was one of the only people that thought that he should […]

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When you are young, there are two things that you think will go on forever: your parents and your childhood heroes. Superman, Batman and Spider-Man never age, but they are paper and ink. Our parents, heroes, indeed ourselves, are human and humans die. When parents die, we are left “alone,” but many of us have […]

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No matter what happens on Saturday at the Wimbledon Women’s Singles Title between Serena Williams and Garbine Muguruza, it is long past time for everyone to marvel at the career of the youngest Williams sister. At 33, an age when athletes in many sports are on the downside of their careers, Ms. Williams is one […]

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I have spent much of my time following the NHL draft and free agent saga, especially involvign the defending Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks. At the same time however, the NBA has been going through a similar turmoil: who will play where; which teams will be going from pretenders to contenders and vice versa. For the […]

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