From its modest beginnings at the AFL-NFL Championship Game in Los Angeles in 1967, through to this year’s Super Bowl XLIV, Super Sunday has grown exponentially and, in the process, has become a bloated monster. Over the past quarter century or so, Super Sunday has illustrated the ability of a sporting event to offer a [...]
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December closed with a remarkable flurry of headline sports stories. It was not only one for the memory bank, but it may have been the most fitting way to end the decade known as the Naughty Aughties. What seemed like an awkward tag at the beginning of the new century has become a most appropriate [...]
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When is the right time to leave? Some wait too long, others leave too soon. Some go out on top, some tarnish their legacy before letting go.
For those who have followed Florida State University football over the past three decades, the last few years have been painful. Bobby Bowden, one of the great football coaches [...]
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There has been lots of discussion recently on the NFL television blackout policy that prohibits televising home games in the home market unless the game sells out 72 hours prior to kickoff.
Some, including Richard Sandomir of The New York Times, have suggested that in this time of economic crisis, when it appears that the number [...]
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When I was a young boy, I remember using the term “Chinese water torture” for any activity that seemed long, torturous and pointless. I have been reminded of this repeatedly over the last few years as slowly, almost one-by-one, the names of baseball players who tested positive for some sort of performance enhancing drugs have [...]
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If you watched The Open from Turnberry this past weekend there were two surprises: Tiger Woods didn’t make the cut, and Tom Watson nearly won the tournament. It became obvious that Tiger wasn’t playing his A-game when, in the middle of his second round, he played himself out the tournament.
Woods was one under par after [...]
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Each year, as Father’s Day approaches, a local gun store and shooting range, with two convenient locations, runs half- and full-page ads urging Florida families to give Dad a gun for Father’s Day.
My guess is some of you have never realized, or even contemplated, what a perfect keepsake a gun would make for dear ol’ [...]
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The story began with this: “The NCAA placed Alabama’s football program and 15 other of the school’s athletic teams on three years’ probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks
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Misuse of free textbooks? What could that mean? Were the players caught reading them? Or did they just claim to have read them? [...]<br/>
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, attracted my attention in the spring of 1995 when she made the decision that ended the suicidal baseball strike that prevented a World Series in 1994 and threatened to destroy the 1995 baseball season.
Not only is Judge Sotomayor an excellent choice for the Supreme [...]
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At post-game press conferences at the NCAA tournament, I heard the ringmaster ask members of the press an interesting question: “Are there any questions for the student athletes?”
Charming and quaint questions tossed off in a matter-of-fact manner always get my attention. I immediately studied my television screen in search of the species in question. Indeed [...]
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