I hate to be a cynic, but I saw the writing on this wall quite some time ago. Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor reckless assault, resolving his alleged child abuse case. Per terms of the agreement, there is no reference to family violence or violence against […]

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If there’s one thing that can be said about New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, it is that he will do ANYTHING to save his own ass. Even though he has denied publicly numerous times that he took performance enhancing drugs, the Miami Herald reported this week that Rodriguez admitted to DEA officials in […]

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While running errands on Saturday, I checked the radio to see how Northwestern was doing at Iowa, and it was ugly – 38-7 Iowa t that point, ending up being 48-7 Iowa as the final score. It sounded like a good old fashioned Hayden Fry ass-whipping, so I turned it off, figuring I would read […]

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Unlike the rest of the world it seems, I did watch some of the World Series and it was fun to watch, although several games weren’t. The Giants jumped out in Game 1, winning 7-1 and the dumb pundits on ESPN and elsewhere said that the underdog Royals were toast. That is, until Game 2, […]

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We knew that former baseball slugger Jose Canseco isn’t exactly “the sharpest knife in the drawer.” Using performance enhancing drugs to amass 462 home runs and 1,407 RBIs in a 17 year career, he is considered by many players, especially his former “Bash Brother” Oakland A’s teammate Mark McGwire, a “rat” for telling the world […]

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One of the things that old time players (and spectators like me) hate about today’s game of football are all of the play celebrations. A guy makes a great tackle, or a sack and they dance and prance around the field like they just won the Super Bowl. I do make a slight exception for […]

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The rest of the headline would be “is doomed to repeat it,” and that is the first thing I thought of this morning when I read a piece on SI.com that was originally reported in the New York Daily News. According to the paper, Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg has had discussions about moving […]

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