Sporting News

Bambi Versus Godzilla

Why are we still watching ridiculously one-sided college football games?  Large mainstream universities are actually paying smaller schools to come to their campus and have their football team beaten by a nationally ranked team. Why? It’s wonderful for the small colleges. They get never before heard of exposure for their schools, while they are getting outscored 900-0. Plus a lot …

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by admin on September 30th, 2014 Leave a comment »

EX-FBI Director Investigates The NFL

When you make thirty million bucks a year and screw up, you apparently get to pick your own investigator. Isn’t that nice? And you still get to call it an independent investigation to boot. NFL fans everywhere await with baited breath. They did get a guy with impressive credentials. Former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Wow! And with …

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by admin on September 24th, 2014 Leave a comment »

NCAA Under Pressure From U.S. Senators

Three U.S. Senators sent letters Thursday to the presidents of the 65 universities that comprise the five major conferences seeking answers on how they treat college athletes. The letter written by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said the senators have grown “increasingly frustrated with the lack of meaningful progress by the …

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by admin on September 18th, 2014 Leave a comment »

The Cuban Invasion

He’s 6’4” tall and weighs in at 240 pounds and he loves to play baseball. Yet another Cuban baseball player is on his way to the USA and Major League Baseball. His name is Yasmany Tomas and he is looking to follow in the footsteps of Yasiel Puig, Rusney Castillo and Jose Abreu, all Cubans who have all recently signed …

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by admin on September 17th, 2014 Leave a comment »

NFLPA Sets New Guidelines

Professional football players in the National Football League have a union known as the NFLPA… the NFL Players Association. Most of the time the union stays in the background, however, recent negative developments in the NFL have caused the players union to step up and take action. The NFLPA deals mainly with the NFL Commissioner’s office… which means Roger Goodell …

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by admin on September 16th, 2014 Leave a comment »

N.O.W. Calls For Goodell To Resign

Ole Roger has really stepped in it this time. He’s even got the National Organization for Women (NOW) issuing statements calling for his ouster as commissioner of the National Football League. That’s a $30,000,000 a year job that the ladies are asking for. Let’s hope that they get it! Roger Goodell has been riding the edge of abusing the power …

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by admin on September 13th, 2014 Leave a comment »

The Chase Is On

This will be the first year for NASCAR’s new Chase format. The field has been expanded to 16 drivers to start off the Chase competition at Chicagoland Speedway on September the 14th. The new set up will consist of 10 races with the field growing a bit shorter after each event. Actually, the field will be cut to 12 drivers …

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by admin on September 12th, 2014 Leave a comment »

$28.5 Million A Year To Sell Sneakers

Kevin Durant has just become the highest shoe salesman in the world. Well, Michael Jordan might already have that covered, but Durant just closed a hell of a deal with Nike which will net him more over the next two years than his $42 million contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Under Armour was making a big play for Durant’s …

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by admin on September 10th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Selig Honors Scully Before Retiring

Before officially retiring, Bud Selig had one more very important thing to do. He must honor the man who has become the greatest baseball announcer in the history of the game, Mr. Vin Scully. I distinctly remember sitting in my old car with a bunch of sweaty friends listening to Scully calling the legendary Sandy Koufax’s World Series no hitter …

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by admin on September 9th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Ice Hockey In The Desert

Las Vegas is one of the sporting centers of America. OK, so everyone wears leisure suits instead of pads, but you have to admit, they are indeed sporting. However, up until now, no major sporting leagues have chosen to put a franchise out there in Nevada. Of course there are abundant sports fans in Las Vegas and elsewhere in the …

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by admin on September 8th, 2014 Leave a comment »