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Coach Kid Toucher, aka Jerry Sandusky

admin November 9, 2011

By now, most of you are familiar with the abhorrent details of the case against former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky: That he (allegedly) diddled the holy Hell out of eight boys between the mid-1990s and the late-2000s. That he founded The Second Mile, a program to assist underprivileged […]

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It’s Baseball’s Opening Day. How I Wish I Cared

admin March 31, 2011

I’ve spent the day eying a trickle of Tweets tagged with #openingday. In general, they seem to be originating from one of three types: Older men, who remember when baseball really was America’s game (and when uttering the phrase “Boy, fetch my bags” to a black bellhop didn’t garner such […]

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Why the Super Bowl Sucked

admin February 7, 2011

Super Bowl XLV has come and gone and I have to say I’m disappointed. It isn’t that I wasn’t rooting for the Packers or that the game wasn’t close. Still, something seemed off. For starters, the commercials sucked. I recall literally none of them other than a Sketchers ad featuring […]

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The Pro Bowl Sucks (And How to Fix It)

admin January 31, 2011

The only interesting part of yesterday’s game. For the record, I live and breathe NFL football. Not so much in a Rain Man, I know to which side every Super Bowl-winning quarterback hangs kind of way, but I spend most Sundays of the season beached like a hairy whale on […]

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NFL Playoffs-Week 1-One for Effing Four

admin January 10, 2011

“You’re gonna listen to me? To something I said? Hasn’t it become abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don’t know shit?” –Brodie, Mallrats In this man’s estimation, the first two rounds of the NFL playoffs* are the greatest two weekends of the year. Four football games-two […]