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Haynesworth Proves NFL Should Change Compensation Structure

June 24, 2010 Sports

As a lifelong Redskins fan, I have enjoyed some jubilation in my 26+ young years, but also have largely endured 10+ years of serious ineptitude for the team as well. Albert Haynesworth is just another example of the idiocy that has run my favorite sports team (of any team in any sport, by the way) [...]

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In Search of Personal Accountability

June 11, 2010 Sports

If you’re a college football fan–and unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks–you know that punishment was finally handed down on the USC football team for the whole Reggie Bush saga. According to reports, the NCAA “threw the book” at USC, giving them a “two-year bowl ban, four years’ probation, [...]

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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 [...]

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