From the Empty Gesture Department…
Major League Baseball has announced a special draft of surviving Negro League veterans. Teams will draft survivors, pay their expenses to Disney World (honestly), and give them a stipend. The idea is to symbolically make amends for that bit of unpleasantness which denied African-Americans the right to play in the big […]
Tag Archives: NFL
This just in
May 8 08
Let Pac-Man Play
April 1 08
The NFL doesn’t respect it’s fans. Looking at the NFL with an objective eye, there is no other conclusion one can come to. Don’t ignore the outrageous costs to the non-fan. Every stadium in America was subsidized in someway by the local area populace - whether they ever witness a game in person or not. […]
The Madness is upon us
March 15 08
I don’t have a favorite for March Madness. It gets harder for me to follow college basketball every season. Call it bitter nostalgia, but I thought it was great when college ball was all about playing ball… just some kids, a coach and a lot of zone defense. But just like everything else these days, […]
The Power of the Blogger
Bloggers are becoming powerful.
You can tell by the number of Democratic presidential candidates that appeared at the Daily Kos convention. Kos bloggers are, generally speaking, people who believe Stalin was a little bit soft on wealth redistribution. But there were Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and the rest rolling over and begging. Riddle me this: if politicians […]