As one gets older, one’s priorities change; what would have once been an absolute must, is now just background noise. I am in the midst of a period where this is happening twice. First comes the NCAA Tournament – when I was younger, I used to draw a bracket on poster board, keeping track of […]

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Sports fans have very little love for team owners, but often, the owners and fans can come together in distrust of one group of people: sports agents. Agents solely exist to get as much money as they can for their clients, which of course means more money for them because they get 10% or more […]

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Last week’s announcement of severe sanctions against the Syracuse basketball program and Coach Jim Boeheim in particular, many pundits thought that this would be the end of the coach’s tenure that started in 1976. Most people thought that the “farewell tour” had already begun – after his nine game Regular Season ACC suspension, I thought […]

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If you use the search engine on this site and look up “Tim Tebow” and read the articles, one might think that I can’t stand the young man. When the Florida college star was with the Broncos, he showed minimal skills, and a lot of luck on the field. I knew that would take care […]

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Regular readers may remember last week when I wrote about the retirement of quarterback Jack Locker and other NFL players. While none of them said that the potential of head injury played any role in their decision, I wondered if that did have some, perhaps small part in their decisions. Then, this week, San Francisco […]

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Some people are making a big fuss over a photo of a kiss between ESPN College Basketball analyst Dick Vitale and actress Ashley Judd, a huge supporter of the University of Kentucky basketball. Vitale called it a “fun moment. Under no condition did I plant a kiss on Ashley,” he said in an interview with […]

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Well, the biggest wagering mechanism in all of commerce started last evening: bettnig on the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Admit it, how many of you have done little work this morning because you were researching Wofford? (And don’t discount Wofford – the 5 seed vs. 12 seed matchup always ends up with upsets.) Personally, I […]

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