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Sportsman of the Year
Sports Illustrated has named LeBron James its sportsman of the year. He did win an NBA Title and Most Valuable Player award to go along with his Olympic Gold Medal. I think he’s the best player I ever...
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12 Days of Urban
In case any Buckeye football players are saving up to jump the plantation, Time reports that Ohio State is monitoring their checking accounts. The last time indentured buckeyes got the fee market...
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Lance and Manti
In the Weird Weird World of sports, Lance Armstrong’s doping confession to Oprah Winfrey was upstaged by news of Notre Dame star Manti Te’o's cyber girlfriend. The fake girlfriend didn’t make Manti...
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Stan the Man
Stan the Man Musial died a week after no one was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame, due to performance enhancing drug suspicions. Here’s a nice essay by Paul Greenberg on “A Gentleman and a...
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Immigration for Millionaires
While Congress debated how to keep out illegal immigrants, Phil Mickelson had the temerity to suggest he might immigrate the other way. The reason – his 60% total tax bill. In the ensuing uproar over...
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Title Nine for Olympic Wrestling
If the Olympic movement is away from naked wrestlers to nearly naked volleyball players, who am I to complain? Still, wrestling is the original olympic sport. What will be the IOC’s next move – drop...
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Golf Outing
The president’s golf outing with Tiger Woods in Florida was upsetting to journalists because he wouldn’t give them the time of day. Others were upset because they believe he wastes too many days...
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TSA
The TSA released new traveler friendly guidelines. Hockey sticks, golf clubs and pocket knives (but not box-cutters) are ok for carry-on. Leave the shampoo at home. The post TSA appeared first on...
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Boston
I liked this column by Dr. Keith Ablow. He says, “we are vulnerable because we are free and strong”. The post Boston appeared first on Bokbluster.com.
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Those Damn Catholics
Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee’s geeky jokes finally got him busted. The multimillionaire president once cracked that he hoped the multimillionaire football coach, Jim Tressel, “won’t fire me”....
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NFL Gangster Style
John Facenda was known as The Voice of God. He was famous for his over-the-top NFL Film productions glorifying the manly ideal of the players. Now pro athletes glorify themselves as gangsters and...
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Dope Scandal
Twelve ballplayers got 50 game suspensions in the Biogenesis dope scandal. A-Rod got 211. Hardly seems fair, but neither is cheating. Besides nobody likes him. You can see his entertaining press...
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NCAA
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel is so disliked that SEC coaches voted him second team all conference - after winning the Heisman Trophy as a freshman last year. Now the NCAA is going after the...
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World Series Facial Grooming
Was looking for a distraction so I switched from Health.gov to the World Series. Being skilled at distraction, my attention drifted from the game to the elaborate facial grooming of the Red Sox...
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Too Smart for the NFL
So far this year one NFL player is in jail on murder charges while others have been fined for tackling too hard. Now, according to Bloomberg, a 320 pound Nebraska and Oregon reject has been...
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Big Fat Bully Boys
Americans, as usual, are holding up our end of H.L. Mencken’s grand bargain that “we get the government we deserve, and we deserve to get it good and hard”. But what have the polite people of Toronto...
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Inequality
President Obama says “inequality is the defining challenge of our time”. The ocean and canals near Obama’s Hawaiian vacation home are off limits to local residents while he is there. The vacation is...
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Dennis Rodman Birthday Song
Dennis Rodman apologized for his drunken rant to CNN and sang happy birthday to Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Rodman is 52 and young Kim is thirty-something. Hope Kim doesn’t think of Rodman as a crazy...
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Obama’s Virtual Son
In a long interview with David Remnick of The New Yorker, President Obama once again commented on the son he never had. This time he refused to allow the hypothetical tyke to play in the NFL. As for...
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Super Bowl Version XLVIII.2
Hate to drag politics into the sports, but I didn’t want to miss out on Super Bowl Version XLVIII.2. First, Team Obama tweeted The One throwing a football. Then Bill O’Reilly interviewed him. Dr....
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