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If I was in charge of the NHL…

March 4, 2010 Sports

Like a huge chunk of this country (and just about everyone in Canada), I enjoyed a heavy dose of Olympic hockey over the past two weeks. And during one of the games, NBC’s cameras caught Gary Bettman, the NHL Commissioner, sitting with the IOC Commissioner. The play-by-play guy, “Doc” Emrick, remarked that there was a [...]

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An Open Letter to Bruce Allen

January 5, 2010 Sports

(Author’s note: I was going to do a vlog for this one, but my daughter is being really uncooperative tonight in terms of being quiet. Besides, this needs to be timely, as the Redskins already fired Jim Zorn and are likely to hire Mike Shanahan any given day now. Also, I’m a crazy Redskins fan [...]

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Fixing the BS that is the BCS

November 23, 2009 Sports

I don’t think I’m going to break new ground here, but the BCS needs to be fixed. It’s broken. It’s not about football. It’s about money. It’s BS (which makes two thirds of the BCS, no?) and everyone knows it.
I have a simple solution: A 16-team playoff that filters out into the bowls. Here’s how [...]

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Vanity: The Downfall of the Favre Legend

August 23, 2009 Sports

I have lost all respect for Brett Favre.
There, I said it. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that this week, Brett Favre came back once again from retirement to join the Minnesota Vikings. He finally got his wish of sticking it to the Packers for requiring him to make a quick [...]

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Golf is a sport – Give it up already

August 16, 2009 Sports

I’ve had this idea for this post since the British Open, but it got sidetracked by other topics. And after watching Y.E. Yang amazingly pull off the upset on Tiger at the PGA Championship at Hazeltine (choke job? just bad at the office? opinions on that BTW?), I felt compelled to finally come out and [...]

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