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The Groinies

The Fantasy Football playoff season has just ended. The winning owners have been crowned and are telling everyone who will listen how great they are as a fantasy owner. The losers have complained about...

The Fifty Spot

There is an accomplishment in pro basketball that is far more impressive than a Triple-Double. You all know what the Triple-Double is, of course. That would be a game where a player scored at...

Some Football Observations

Problems of the Hurry Up Offense It seems to me that, even though the fast-paced Philadelphia Eagles/Oregon Ducks-type hurry up offenses have seemed powerful and sometimes unstoppable in their rapid fire, helter skelter pace,...

The Point Of No Return

I don’t know what is more ridiculous. The NFL’s decision to move the spot where the kickoff is made forward five yards, which nearly guarantees that a kickoff will go DEEP into the end...

The Four Stooges

You all remember The Three Stooges. You know — “nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.” “Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.” “What are you, a wise guy?” Whap! Smack! Bop! (a pop to the chops, a poke in...

College Football’s Final Four

The NCAA Selection Committee named the four teams that are going to be in college football’s playoffs and the results did not surprise me one bit. The selections of the Alabama Crimson Tide, the...

A Waste Of Time

There is a play in pro football that is a complete waste of effort. It is a totally worthless exercise in football strategy. It is called the one yard run on first down. It...

End of the Third Quarter

Three quarters of the way into the pro football season and where do we stand? The Garbage First off, the reports of the Raiduhs’ resurgence have been greatly exaggerated. They just lost their eleventh...

Thanks

Thanksgiving Day. A day to give thanks. I think I will do just that today. It’s a sports column, so… Thank you, L.A. Kings hockey, for a lifetime of great memories, AND for that...

The Sweet and Sour Science

Newsflash. Manny Pacquiao just decisively defeated Chris Algieri on Saturday night in Macao, China for the Welterweight Championship of the World. Comment. Does anybody out there even care about boxing anymore? It used to...