Monthly Archives: May 2007

The Floyd Landis Case Will Not Go Away !

May 17, 2007 – 10:33 am

A court is going to decide whether or not Floyd Landis should be stripped of his Tour de France title because he had excess testosterone in his system or if the testing procedures used to make that determination were sufficiently flawed to render them useless. Please notice what the court – in the form of [...]

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College Football Stuff

May 16, 2007 – 2:59 pm

I know that the college football season doesn’t start until three-and-a-half months from now, but there are some items there that deserve some attention. Once football practice begins in earnest and the adrenaline in anticipation of the season begins to flow, there will be prognostications on which coaches are on the hot seat this year. [...]

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RIP – George Kiseda

May 15, 2007 – 10:26 am

As I was doing my background reading for these rants and to catch up on things, I ran across an obituary written by Mark Heisler in the LA Times. George Kiseda passed away and sports journalism is definitely the worse for his passing. If you never got to read George Kiseda, it is your loss; [...]

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Who Knew The Yankees Were Big In Morocco?

May 14, 2007 – 12:08 pm

Depending on how you look at it, either I’ve been denied access to US sports information for the last month or so or I’ve been given the chance to free my mind of such confining thoughts and images. I prefer the former. But when one is traveling in Morocco and Turkey, one catches only fleeting [...]

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I’m Back – - Sort Of…

May 13, 2007 – 4:09 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen: I am back on the air – although not at full strength. A week ago Friday night (May 4th) I had a severe bout of pain in a remote Turkish town called Selcuk. After the fact, we seem to have determined that it was the passing of a kidney stone but unfortunately [...]

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