Headlines for March, 2004

Coming Up Aces: A New Home for the Montreal Expos

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig: All right ladies and gentlemen, we all know why we're here. The Montreal Expos are in dire need of a new city, and although they appreciate all the frequent flyer miles they rack up jumping back and forth between Canada and Puerto Rico for home games, their stay north of the border is fini. [read more...]

Calvin Murphy: A Tarnished Legacy

One of the great basketball players of my youth was former Houston Rockets guard Calvin Murphy. We were able to empathize with him, because he was a little guy among the 7-footers. He was only 5-foot-9 inches tall, but was a giant on the court, averaging 17.9 points per game. He was at his best at the free throw line, [read more...]

Money Changes Everything

I guess that we shouldn't be surprised that the University of Colorado reinstated head football coach Gary Barnett this week. Over the past several weeks, investigations into the Colorado program that had been plagued by scandals involving recruits given access to alcohol and strippers, and numerous rape allegations, have led to no arrests, no prosecutions, because reportedly the rape victims [read more...]

The Bryant Trial: Facing One’s Accuser

Nietzsche said, "When one looks into the abyss, the abyss looks into you." So, one must ask this week in the first meeting of Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and the 19-year-old woman he has been accused of raping as to who is the accused and who is the accuser? The teenaged woman was questioned Wednesday about her sex [read more...]

Addicted to the “World”

Call them second nature, but at their roots, our habits are derived from pleasure. "Marijuana may be habit-forming," teens are warned. This implies that the drug itself is addicting, as though it acts upon an unwilling victim. Should we not acknowledge that the user might actually receive pleasure from the narcotic, and thus use it again?Where's the sign that says, [read more...]

A Maddening March Madness

The first long weekend of March Madness has come and gone, and as is the case every year, there was the usual dose of improbable comebacks, thrilling finishes and spirited upsets. Show me a guy with a pretty looking bracket sheet after the first two rounds of action and I'll show you a guy who filled out that bracket sheet [read more...]

In The Heat Of Stupidity, Jim Gray Never Fails, Does It Again

Sideline reporters have no legitimate function. In the NFL, they add a little to a broadcast by letting you know if someone is badly injured. Other than that, they are either eye candy - a pretty face to ogle - or a wimpy man, or worse, Leslie Visser, who is neither attractive nor informative. Which brings us to a gross miscarriage [read more...]

NCAA Parity Marches in Madness

Years ago, when the "Survivor" phenomenon brought forth the high definition sewage that remains the harsh reality of our TV universe, there still existed the grand notion of the dynasty in college basketball.Barely. Now, in the midst of the hoopla surrounding March Madness - and the reality TV pilots that make our eyes beg for a blindfold during each commercial break [read more...]

Is Terrell Owens worth the trouble?

The Terrell Owens saga came to a mystifying conclusion this week, as the enigmatic flanker was dealt from the San Francisco 49ers to the Philadelphia Eagles in a three-team trade involving the Baltimore Ravens. The Eagles need a game-breaking threat on the outside like Aretha Franklin needs to go on the Atkins diet, but is Owens truly the last piece [read more...]

Philly Fresh Meat, Terrell Owens Gets His Wish

Philadelphia is typically about as friendly to its athletes as the French are to…well, anybody.Terrell Owens has moments that make Mike Tyson look amiable. Some people deserve each other. How do matches made in dysfunctional Sharpie heaven occur? In this instance, it is through chaos, confusion, complaining and cash. Why would it be any other way? It started when Owens' agent, David Joseph, [read more...]

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