A Good Year for the Outlaw

And speaking of cheaters, one of the all-time great cheaters is getting what he deserves this weekend: Lou Holtz is being inducted into the college football Hall of Fame. Err….wtf?!?!?!
Lou Holtz, the guy who left the last four schools he coached in NCAA probation for recruiting violations and illegal payments? That Lou Holtz? The guy [...]

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Much like with Ramirez, the adoration shown to the late Steve McNair, who should have the word “adulterer” placed next to his name as often as the word “quarterback” appears next to it, is weird at best, sickening at least.
Here is a father of four kids, killed by his 20-year old (17 years his [...]

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The adoration and attention shown to Manny Ramirez since he came back from being SUSPENDED FOR CHEATING is and has been sickening. Any fan that “cheers” for this cheater should be banned from ever entering a major league stadium again. Same goes for those who cheer A-Roid in New York. These guys shouldn’t even be [...]

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Report: Sosa tested positive for steroids in 2003
Wow. Knock me over with a feather. Didn’t see that one comin’.
NOT!
It’s about time this jackass’ name finally got exposed. What a joke. What a freakin’ joke he was/is/and always will be. Eat it, f’en Cub fans in denial. Your boy was right in there with Bonds, [...]

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It’s Thursday night, May 28, 9pm, and I’m driving home. I whip the dial to the sportstalk station in Chicago to hear what might be going on.
Keep in mind, I already know, and I’m wondering which of these topical stories they might be talking about. Could it be…
1. The Blackhawks were just eliminated from [...]

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John Cena from the WWE, Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins’ slugging first baseman.

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So there was a nice, big, whiny-toned expose in the USA Today this week about how the economy is affecting NAZICAR attendance and TV ratings and sponsorship dollars. As I’ve said before, the economy is a convenient excuse for these guys, who refuse to look in the mirror and see the REAL reasons why NAZICAR [...]

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Continuing my other post (I’ve edited the timestamp on this one to put it below the first one) on what is REALLY wrong with NASCAR.
We’ve already discussed Toyota, right-wing jingoism, and the dreaded “Car of Tomorrow” as reasons NASCAR is down. Here are more:
4. Track duplication. In their continued efforts to break free from Southern-only [...]

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Manny Ramirez? Juiced? Seriously, who was surprised by this? “It’s Just Manny Being Manny” has a whole new meaning to some today, he’s been on my list the entire time.
He’s just another in the long line of major league supposed “stars” and “heroes” that turns out to be nothing more than a scumbag, lowlife [...]

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One more sports story while I’m on the topic:
Everyone was lamenting the “flat” Bulls performance last night in their regular season ender against Toronto. The players even put on a convincing show afterwards. But folks, these guys aren’t stupid. They tossed that game in the tank early, and they SHOULD have.
A win would have [...]

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While catching some sports talk out of Chicago Wednesday evening on my drive home, I happened across what was actually a live and thought provoking discussion on WGN’s evening sports show.
(NOTE TO “The Score”: The freakin’ Bears don’t play a meaningful game until September. I DON’T want to hear Bears talk right now. Well, [...]

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That should be the headline in at least one Chicago paper, a Minneapolis-St.Paul paper or two, and the USA Today come Monday.
Jim Thome’s sixth inning pop foul in a 1-1 tie against Minnesota Sunday afternoon landed on the rolled up tarp behind third base, with Twins third baseman Joe Crede coming up one step [...]

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Jay Cutler is now a Bear. Talk show hosts and callers all over Illinois are sitting in their soaked plain white BVD’s (except for the typical Bear fan’s Larry-The-Cable-Guy-style-racing-stripe in his underbritches) over the deal. Denver’s new coach, in what looks to the be the move that seals his fate as a short-timer in Denver, [...]

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It appears as if the AHL’s short-lived, unsuccessful-at-the-gate run in the Quad Cities, and more specifically at the iWireless Center in Moline, is over.
This takes away the closest rival (and thus, cheapest travel costs) for the Peoria Rivermen, and also, I believe, sets the stage for the AHL’s eventual exodus from downstate Illinois. Some [...]

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Peoria is losing a high school – eventually, and from all appearances, about five years too late, but that’s not important now – and the loss of one of the four public schools should and probably will cause a re-alignment of conferences.
This would be my plan:
Richwoods, Manual, Quincy Notre Dame and the new Woodruff [...]

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Three weeks ago, if you’d ask this casual observer of the NFL if it would be cool for the Arizona Cardinals to make the Super Bowl, I’d have said, “sure, why not, good for them”. But then I remembered: Kurt Warner is their quarterback now.
As I sit here watching the last ditch effort by [...]

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While listening to the BlackHawks radio pregame the other night, I heard the announcer say, “well, the ‘hawks head into tonight five games over .500…”
Chicago’s record at the time was 11-6-7. That is NOT “five games” over .500. Five games over .500 sounds like you’ve won five more than you’ve lost, right?
But the “7″ [...]

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Should Vikings Coach Brad Childress be fired today?
[] Yes.
[] Hell yes.
[] He hasn’t been fired yet, what the hell is the holdup?
[] The Bears suck no matter what the Vikings do.
[] All of the above.

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I started to give up on NASCAR, or more appropriately NAZICAR, a couple of seasons back, and haven’t watched more than 100 laps of racing all year to this point. Out of about 12,000 or so.
Tonight, I’m whipping through the dial looking for more college football and I see they’re running at Lowe’s Motor [...]

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Surprising 1st half for the Gophs. Leading the mighty Illini 7-3? I’m happy with that. No, I’m thrilled with that. But the Illini will win. Minnesota is getting better, but they’re not good enough to beat the Illini today. If they do, I’ll be happy to be wrong.
Two things, however, bugged me. One minor, [...]

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After last season’s debacle, the fact that the Minnesota Gophers are 5-1 against ANYbody is a huge leap forward. And today, they won a conference game, the first in Tim Brewster’s regime, which started with a thud last year’s 1-11, 0-8 in the Big 10 embarrassment.
I didn’t think this Brewster guy had a clue, [...]

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As a more casual football fan than I was as a kid, I don’t get as upset when teams I like lose games like I used to. That being said, it’s still pretty frustrating to watch the best running back in the NFL right now, Adrian Petersen, a kid who has a chance to be [...]

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Notre Dame is honoring Lou Holtz this Saturday with a statue, commemorating the school’s last mythical national football championship.
Not mentioned in this ESPN fluff piece is the fact that Holtz got Notre Dame put on probation as he left, the only time in school history they’ve ever gotten in trouble with the NCAA. That means, [...]

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All I can say is it’s a good thing they weren’t from Oregon.
Unique logo placement
EDIT: Billy, try it now, sir.

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Well, another NBA “Lottery” has come and gone, and yet another fixed result has been achieved. Don’t think it’s fixed? Then why won’t they pull the ping pong balls in public?
It’s fixed. Big time. Congrats, Chicago, your pathetic Bulls again get something they don’t deserve.
BTW, the Minnesota Timberwolves remain the franchise the league loves to [...]

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