In my endless quest for news I read lots of stories and today, thanks to a lead from Scott Meslow from The Week, I saw an opinion piece by Ann Coulter deriding everything soccer. Normally it’s not something I would take on but I’m going to make an exception in this case because there is […]
I’ve written a number of times about how I think the NCAA is an organization wherein everyone except the athletes make money. One of the points I’ve made is that the NCAA takes money from video game makers like Electronic Arts who use the likeness and mannerisms of players in their games. Until today the […]
I wrote a long post a while ago about why the National Football League should stop using Roman Numerals for the Super Bowl. While my dream hasn’t fully come to fruition the league has decided that Super Bowl 50 will be represented in Arabic Numerals. It gives me a glimmer of hope that change is on […]
I wrote a post about a misleading headline last week but now I’d like to talk about the article to which the satiric story was really about. There was a Supreme Court decision last week which allowed a municipality to open their meeting with a prayer as long as that prayer is not intended to […]
The true nature of the NCAA was on full display when the president of that organization agreed that certain rules about food were “absurd”. What I’d like to talk about today is why the NCAA has rules about how much food the student-athlete gets. Before I talk about that I’d like to honestly discuss many of […]
There is what many people would call a sports story making very small waves here in St. Louis about a player the Rams recently signed who has been arrested. I don’t really think it is a sports story, it’s more an erosion of our rights story. It’s not a huge thing but it just makes […]
Super Bowl 48 (yes, I wrote 48, not LXVIII) is fast approaching and that means it is time for advertising executives to get their game face on. I suppose the players need to prep as well. There’s an interesting controversy that gives me the opportunity to write a blog about Scarlett Johansson, football, capitalism, and […]
Not that long ago I wrote a post about a high school football game in Texas where one team defeated the other by a score of 91 – 0. Now comes a college basketball game in which a Division I team beat a small school playing for the Association of Christian College Athletics league 116 – […]
It’s only Sunday and I’ve got an entire week of Motley Fool articles ahead of me, but I got suckered in by a misleading headline just now and I can’t stop myself from reporting its existence to my loyal fans. Worst Call of the Season – This Horse Collar Call blares the headline on the […]
I’m tempted to create a series of posts entitled “Misleading Headlines” as the practice of putting headlines on stories that sensationalize articles to the point where they are misleading is becoming all the more common. I could write a daily post about ridiculous, attention promoting headlines from the online financial adviser Motley Fool. In this […]
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the use of Native American nicknames for sports teams. Many people think some of these names are derogatory in nature and would like to see changes. The most prominent case is the Washington Redskins who are under moderate pressure to change the team nickname. Meanwhile […]
Hazing is in the news lately with a plethora of stories about the Miami Dolphins football team and in particular the incidents between Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin. There are a lot of opinions about who is in the wrong in that particular case. What I want to talk about is the real purpose of […]
I just read an interesting story about how the Federal Communication Commission thinks they need to be involved in deciding when the National Football League broadcasts its games. The NFL has a series of rules in which if the home team does not sell a certain number of tickets then the game cannot be broadcast […]
There’s an interesting case in the news and it’s really not something I’d normally write a blog post about because everyone is pretty much in agreement. However, I do want to make a point about something in this story that bothers me. First the details. A powerhouse Texas high school football team defeated another school […]
There’s an interesting news story making this rounds about a college football commentator, and former player, named Craig James who was fired from his job after a single day. If you read the headlines, and to a large degree the story itself, without knowing other facts conveniently ignored you will come to the impression that […]
It seems to be a week for media personalities butting heads with sports personalities here in St. Louis. I’ve been writing about the Jack Clark/Albert Pujols situation but now we have the Bernie Kosar/Jeff Fisher brouhaha. Fisher is the head coach of the St. Louis Rams and Kosar is the color commentator for the Cleveland […]
The Johnny Manziel situation that I wrote about yesterday continues on and now Texas A&M has hired an attorney to essentially represent the quarterback. I don’t want to keep reiterating my point that the NCAA runs a corrupt and hypocritical organization but this lawyer hire brought a new angle mind. The NCAA forbids athletes from […]
I’ve posted about the rank hypocrisy of the NCAA often in the past but there’s another story in the news today and I can’t stop myself from trying to make my point yet again. There is a young football star who plays for Texas A&M named Johnny Manziel. Johnny Football as he is called has […]
There’s a story in the news today that’s attracting a little attention and it certainly caught my eye. The full details are certainly not yet released but I think it’s worth talking about. An officer in Alachua County, Florida, was responding to a report of suspicious incidents and a disturbance at a nightclub very early on […]
For my followers who are not sports fans there is a terrible story making headlines in the National Football League (NFL) these days. A player in the league is accused of premeditated murder. That he killed one of his friends reportedly because that friend was talking to some other people. The case is in its […]