Monthly Archives: March 2010

Erin Andrews – - on St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2010 – 12:05 am

Allow me to begin today – – on the feast day of Patrick in Ireland – – with a comment on the sentencing of the slimeball who stalked and videotaped a naked Erin Andrews in a hotel room. A judge sentenced this clearly sick hominid to 27 months in prison; he will have to pay [...]

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NCAA Tournament Whimsy

March 16, 2010 – 11:18 am

Yesterday, Elliot Harris had an interesting suggestion in the Chicago Sun-Times. “Any team that whines about being bypassed for the NCAA tournament should be declared automatically ineligible for the NIT.” I like that kind of thinking. The problem is that there are two other irrelevant tournaments beyond the NIT for whining coaches/players/schools to play in. [...]

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A 96-Team Tournament? Really…?

March 15, 2010 – 11:35 am

Now that Selection Sunday has come and gone, can you truly think of 31 additional college basketball teams who are genuinely worthy of being in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament? I cannot. But if the tournament field were expanded to 96 teams for this year, you would have to come up with 31 more “worthy” [...]

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Hold The Cinematographic Exuberance…

March 12, 2010 – 12:33 pm

News broke this week that ESPN, the NFL and a company called Andell Entertainment will join forces to make a movie about Vince Lombardi. The screenwriter for this undertaking will be the same guy who won an Oscar for Forrest Gump and who also wrote The Horse Whisperer. That’s impressive. Equally impressive is that Robert [...]

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Today Must Be “National WTF Day”…

March 11, 2010 – 9:34 am

Yesterday, I wrote that it would be interesting to see if Jacksonville supported minor league football (the resurrected Arena League) because it does not support major league football (the NFL) very well. A former colleague and long-time reader who has retired to northern Florida sent me a link to an article in the Jacksonville Daily [...]

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Can Michigan Football Players Tell Time?

March 10, 2010 – 10:19 am

The NCAA “Super Sleuths” struck again while I was away. They concluded their “investigation” into allegations that Rich Rodriguez had his Michigan football team practicing 24 hours a week instead of the NCAA maximum allowed 8 hours a week and the sleuths came to this conclusion: It was a clerical error. The school was not [...]

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Allen Iverson In Crisis?

March 9, 2010 – 11:56 am

In Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Stephen A. Smith’s column focused on the trouble in Allen Iverson’s life – – not merely as a basketball player whose career is on the wane. Smith says that without an intervention, Allen Iverson’s difficulties with alcohol and gambling will ruin his life and that the divorce his wife seeks will [...]

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Back At The Keyboard…

March 8, 2010 – 9:59 am

It seems as if lots of “stuff” happened while I was seeing Panama and the Panama Canal at a leisurely pace. I cannot even pretend that I am caught up on things yet but some events of the past week and a half call for comment. John Daly got mad when a reporter did a [...]

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