Saturday, January 5, 2008
Sneaky Student
There's big news about Monday night's BCS championship game. One of Ohio State's star players has been kicked off the squad for violating team rules. He was caught attending classes. The team's coaches have long suspected him of attending classes, the evidence was compelling The player has...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Not Quite So Inspirational
I was watching a TV program a few weeks ago about the most inspirational stories in sports. It was uplifting stuff until they got to one particular story. The story concerned Dennis Byrd who used to play for the New York Jets in the early 90s. Byrd was paralyzed by a ferocious tackle and was told by...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Peeved Steeler Fans
I'll bet folks who bet on Pittsburgh in Monday nights game are pretty peeved. The conditions left the Steelers with no chance of beating the point spread.
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Time to Study
I read this in Sports Illustrated a few years ago. A college football player won an award for having the best academic record on the team. Of course, being as how he was a bona fide student, he didn't play much. Accepting the award he said "I'd like to thank my parents, my teachers and most of all...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Non College Basketball
The University of Maryland--not my alma mater but my home state--has a graduation rate for it's men's basketball program of 0%. Zero. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Of all the basketball players that entered the university between 1997-2000 none earned a degree within six years. That included everyone on the...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Fraidy Cats
I've thought about it long and hard. And there's only one conclusion I can come to. NFL coaches are fraidy cats. Whyever do you say that jollyjeff? Coaches will almost always punt or try a field goal on 4th and one. Why are they paying the players on offense all that money if they don't think they...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Confidence Breed Confidence
Joe Torre is a great manager and the Yankees would be incredibly stupid to fire him, as they are threatening to do. Having said that, I think Torre may have blown the ALDS against Cleveland. How? By starting Chen Ming Wong in game 4 on three days rest instead of the usual four. You can understand...
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Saturday, October 6, 2007
Some sporting opinions
Some people are calling the 2007 baseball season the greatest even, citing among other things Sammy Sosa's 600th home run and Barry Bonds' record breaking home run. Well those would be great accomplishments if Sosa and Bonds hadn't cheated to reach them. On the other hand, 2007 is starting out to be...
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Thursday, August 9, 2007
Fallible Heros
What evidence do we have that Barry Bonds DIDN'T use steroids? I haven't heard that question before and for me it puts the situation in a new perspective. I don't know of any evidence that Bonds didn't use steroids. That makes it even clearer to me that Bonds is a cheater whose home run record in...
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Monday, August 6, 2007
Future Hall of Famer?
Twice in the past few days I've heard Barry Bonds referred to as a future hall of famer. I certainly hope not. We don't need another cheater in the Hall of Fame. We already have Gaylord Perry.
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