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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
The Miami Marlins did their best to do some damage control this week. Following comments by manager Ozzie Guillen that discussed his admiration for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, the Marlins suspended Guillen for five games, a penalty that has been widely debated since it was issued Tuesday.
Now the question becomes ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
Leave it to legendary college basketball coach Bob Knight to have a strong opinion on things. This time, he's mostly coming down on NCAA policies, conference realignment and college athletes being paid an additional stipend on top of their scholarships.
Knight is happy that the NCAA is enacting policies that force ...
Posted in College Basketball, College Football, Politics | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 11th, 2011
This week marked the 20th anniversary of when Magic Johnson found out he had been diagnosed as HIV positive and went public with the news. His retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers accompanied the announcement. I remember watching the coverage at the time, but having absolutely no idea what it ...
Posted in Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, Politics, Sports Business | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
If we're going to have to sit here and talk about the NBA lockout, at least now we're getting some entertaining voices on the subject. For weeks it seems like just about everybody involved with the NBA's work stoppage said little more than they wanted it to end. Now, Matt ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
Isiah Thomas has been a part of lockouts. He's also held numerous roles, both off the court and on, when it comes to the NBA. So the Florida International coach knows a bit about what he's talking about when he says the two sides in the NBA lockout need to ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
John McCain has long been an advocate for the testing of human growth hormone in sports and a big reason why is because he knows what kind of long-term effects it can have and what could happen if young athletes start using it in high school. McCain now admits part ...
Posted in College Football, NFL, Politics | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The easiest way to introduce the subject of this post is to simply ask you to read his latest work, if you haven't already. "The Shame of College Sports" was featured in the October 2011 edition of The Atlantic and can be read here.
Frank Deford has called it the most ...
Posted in College Basketball, College Football, Politics | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Bill Hancock believes the United States government has plenty more to worry about than college football, but that doesn't mean he's not looking forward to a meeting with the Justice Department later this summer. Hancock, the executive director of the BCS, said late last week that the Justice Department had ...
Posted in Boise State Broncos, College Football, Ohio State Buckeyes, Politics, Sports Business | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America holds an election every December for the purpose of selecting former players, managers and executives to the National Baseball Hall of Fame that made a significant impact on the game of baseball. For the very few that make it into the HOF it is ...
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
The first BCS standings came out on Sunday night and with them, the first round of speculation that goes along with them.
Would an undefeated TCU or Boise State play in a title game over a one-loss Alabama team? Could the top two teams, Oklahoma and Oregon, be supplanted without losing ...
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