Tiger Woods, the Aftermath

The 12-step program for Co-Dependents of Sexual Addicts reads: 1. We admitted we were powerless over compulsive sexual behavior — that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. 4. Made [read more...]

The Mike Leach Affair: Lessons in the Nature of Power

I bring you recognition and money and you bring me a pink slip... A wildfire has touched off in Lubbock, Texas. And the incendiary device is power. By now, football fans and most sports watchers know about Texas Tech wideout Adam James, his alleged concussion, and the firing of Mike Leach by Tech chancellor, Kent Hance, who just last year, resigned Leach [read more...]

Michael Vick to Star in BET Reality Show

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is slated to appear in a reality show about his life on Black Excrement Television (whoops did I write that?): He’s out of prison, back in the NFL, and now Michael Vick is going to star in his own television series. The quarterback, who took his first regular-season pro snap just two weeks ago after serving [read more...]

Michael Beasley in Drug Treatment (find out which league has a drug treatment problem)

What’s up with Michael Beasley? Despite the sports news reports that Beasley is suffering from a social anxiety disorder which he relieves with marijuana (see Ricky Williams), Dr. Drew Pinsky, of radio and television fame who has been seen in capacities as varied as co-hosting a comedy question and answer show revolving around teens and sex to hosting his own, [read more...]

Brett Fav-ray is a Bad, Bad Man

Vikings head coach Brad Childress plays chauffeur for Brett Favre. Brett Favre, my main man! The freshly-signed Minnesota Vikings quarterback is back in action in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and will twice face his former team of 16 years, the Green Bay Packers. But that is not the distinguishing element of Hattiesburg, Mississippi’s finest relic’s latest James Brown-like return to the [read more...]

Reactions to the Michael Vick Signing: There Is a Sickness Afoot in America

If you think Michael Vick divided Atlanta, wait until you see Philadelphia and the rest of the country, Friday morning. Vick was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles Thursday to a two-year contract. The quarterback will earn $1.6 million this season with a team option for the second year. If the Eagles pick up his contract it will be worth $5.2 [read more...]

Michael Vick and the Effects of the Game “Those People” Run

Michael Vick stands before the press. On August 7, Michael Vick was videotaped for 23 seconds in a parking lot in Bristow, Virginia hanging with rapper, Young Jeezy. As soon as you could say “Uh oh”, Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports popped up  a link to the video on his Twitter page.  And as soon as you could say, “The Blond Ghost” Mike [read more...]

ESPN, NFL, and the Where the Road Ends (plus, THE Michael Vick File)

“I think the commissioner, all things considered, probably made the best decision that was realistically at his disposal to make,” said Mike Greenberg about Roger the Blond Ghost Goodell’s decision to rein-suspend-ate Michael Vick to end Tuesday’s Mike and Mike in the Morning show.  This, after many conversations with mainstream sports journalists about Vick that ended yesterday, I thought that, perhaps, I needed to reassess [read more...]

A “Money Bomb:” the Future of SOMM

This month Ovation TV is airing a program titled, “Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker.” The gist of the documentary is that black people have been and continue to be systematically excluded from the musical genre of “rock music.” This, despite the fact that the foundation of rock music is based on the playing of three chords, often [read more...]

Short Notes: PED Journalism Back in Effect

There are two interesting articles worth reading in the New York Times. Michael S. Schmidt, the Times‘ resident PED guru,  details some of the rationales some baseball players feel the need to inject steroids and attempts to suss out whether or not players were tipped off to testing by the player’s union Here is a snippet from the article: Even after [read more...]

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