Monthly Archives: February 2008

More NFL Improvements…

February 15, 2008 – 12:38 am

Let me reset the premise for all of these “NFL Improvement” rants. The NFL is a well run league and it certainly has captured the attention of the US sports fans to a degree unmatched by any other attraction. Nonetheless, it can be made better and I keep trying to come up with suggestions to [...]

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C-SPAN + Clemens = Ratings Coup

February 14, 2008 – 12:28 am

So did you spend much of yesterday in front of a TV set with C-SPAN on the screen? I checked out some of the hearings; I could not bring myself to watch all of it. The most outrageous part of it came when Rep. Burton went off on a riff about the media turning this [...]

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Feeding The Family/Paying The Mortgage

February 13, 2008 – 12:51 am

According to a report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Latrell Spreewell may be facing foreclosure on his house. You may recall that his yacht was auctioned off a while back because he didn’t make the payments on it or maintain proper insurance on the vessel. Now the story is that the bank holding the mortgage on [...]

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The Year Of The Rat…

February 12, 2008 – 11:01 am

Last weekend was the New Year on the Chinese calendar; and in their zodiacal system, this will be the Year of the Rat. Somehow, I think that many of the folks I talk about here will fit nicely into something called the Year of the Rat. Moreover, if lots of those folks exhibit behaviors controlled [...]

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Admin Note

February 6, 2008 – 12:40 am

I shall be off the air for the next few days. My long-suffering wife and I will be traveling on a long weekend sojourn. I should be back with something to say next Tuesday. In the meantime, watch the Pro Bowl this weekend only if you are physically immobilized in front of the TV and [...]

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Old School – - Or Just Old

February 6, 2008 – 12:35 am

In the past couple of weeks, I have received several comments about my advancing age as it relates to my having witnessed events that are now taught in history courses and about my austere nature that categorizes me as “old school”. I am not a fatalistic person by nature but there have been enough comments [...]

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Bob Knight Retires

February 5, 2008 – 11:22 am

On July 4 2001, I wrote that Bob Knight should retire. That rant “got lost” when the website converted to the current format, but I had saved the original document and have reposted it for reference. In the past 48 hours, Bob Knight did in fact retire after a time at Texas Tech where he [...]

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Giants/Patriots – - A Very Good Football Game

February 4, 2008 – 3:37 pm

The Super Bowl was a great football game. Forget who won and who lost and all that stuff; it was a well-played game between two excellent teams that was never a two-score game. One can lament the outcome if one is a Pats’ fan or if one had a significant amount of money on the [...]

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Football Announcers – The Good; The Bad; The Ugly

February 1, 2008 – 11:29 am

As the football season draws to a close, I am reminded that I spent a lot of time watching college and pro football on TV for the last five months. I have seen some very good games and I have seen some real dogs. Most of all, I’ve listened to announcers and color analysts and [...]

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