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College Basketball

New Life to a Crook

I am speechless.

Despite an article in the Washington Times; despite a forceful editorial in the local newspaper; despite outrage among numerous different bloggers; despite the news being mentioned in almost every newspaper across the country; despite a Tony Kornheiser quip on PTI; despite the fact that this guy lied to the Waco police during a murder investigation to cover his own ass; despite saying to the faces of the parents of a student who had just been shot that their son was a drug dealer; despite cheating the system by illegally paying the tuition of two players via scholarships above the limit of 13; despite the NCAA giving basically a ten-year ban on the hiring of this man, the Dakota Wizards, a CBA power than has won four titles in the last half-dozen years, has hired Dave Bliss as their new head basketball coach.

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Random Thoughts

A Firing- an Arrest- and a Court Case

I feel like ranting.

I know, I don’t normally rant, but nothing irks me in that way for me to write an entire article about it. I don’t care enough that Bob Huggins got fired; really, he should have been. I don’t care enough that Doc Gooden got arrested for DUI. I don’t care enough that Myles Brand is trying to cover up that his searches while he was President at Indiana were inconclusive as to what Bobby Knight did.

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College Basketball

Missing the Point

Dave Bliss should have been shot.

As it happened, Patrick Dennehy got shot by Carlton Dotson and died. All that happened to Bliss was that he lost his job and the NCAA has basically barred him from coaching for the next ten years.

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NFL General

The Ultimate Piece of (You Know What)

Every year we await football season like die-hard conservatives await new furs from a recently endangered animal. We make our projections and tell everyone how right we’ll be.

And then the crazy people like myself even project which coaches will be fired. Ah, how fun it is.

So I got to thinking, just who is the worst head coach of all time?

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MLB General

A Painful Confession

Sitting down during the brutal heat of August, foreign thoughts rummage through my mind.

Damn, still two games back, and Shit, the Phils are a half game back of the Astros, and Maybe we can catch them all if McKeon could get fired or realize that he should never use his bullpen.

And then I think, Why am I thinking about baseball?

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All Other Sports

Plea Just After A Tragic Anniversary

It was just over one year ago that Lil Bit of Rouge broke down and plunged jockey Gary Birzer into paralysis and his family into debt.

He was riding at Mountaineer on the night of July 20th, 2004, just as he had done each Friday through Tuesday for the previous few years. He was a middle of the road jockey at a middle of the road track, bringing home about $40,000 a year after insurance and guild fees. His wife was a horse groom and they were bringing home enough money to support a family of six.

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All Other Sports

The Greatest Atrocity

I’ve been livid over countless boneheaded decisions of the monopoly called the NCAA, but none has been more absurd and ill founded than the NCAA’s decision to ban “hostile” and “abusive” Indian nicknames.

Yes, some nicknames should go. Redskins is “hostile” and maybe even “abusive,” but Seminoles most certainly is not.

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Golf

The Most Victorious Weekend Off

Sometimes the greatest stories miss the cut by four shots.

More often than not, this is not the case. But Friday at Pinehurst, it was.

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College Football

Too Many Clouds in Otherwise Sonny Mountain West

It is not every day that I find myself siding with a coach over a commissioner, but for once the coach is right.

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College Football

Party Token

Imagine you are attending an institute of higher learning. Imagine that while at this institute you stray into a party. Now imagine that you are sexually harassed by football players. Finally, imagine bargaining the amount of money you pay the school for sexually harassing you down to $70,000.