here’s the first paragraph of peter king’s post super bowl column. After a surprise deluge leaves players and staff drenched, 78-year-old owner Dan Rooney walks the sidelines with a towel for headgear, warding off the light rain that lingers. He looks, quite frankly, bizarre. “Hey, Mr. Rooney,” calls out Hines Ward, with a mischievous smile, from 20 yards [...]

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get it?  because he’s a blowhard you know, as long as there are black people in sports, i’m always going to have something to blog about. recently, there have been two incidents involving high profile media personalities and their comments being construed as offensive by a racial/ethnic group.  but what i think is instructive is [...]

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so rick reilly’s column made its much anticipated debut for espn this week. i’m sure that i don’t have to tell you, it’s terrible. and when i say terrible, i don’t mean in that conventional way that 95% of sports columnists are terrible. i mean terrible in the way that showgirls was terrible. terrible in [...]

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lo and behold, something has gotten me worked up enough to write a real honest to goodness blog post. strap yourselves in kids, because i have a lot to say on this. two weekends ago, on bob costas’ HBO talk show, there was a panel on this thing we call blogging. in particular it was [...]

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so at this point, i feel that all the circus that surrounds the bonds trial is all just window dressing.  a trial, a verdict either way is not going to change at all the way that people feel about barry bonds and the whole steroids era.  if he’s found guilty or innocent will not affect [...]

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rick reilly is now going to write sappy unfunny columns for espn instead of sports illustrated. i’ve long complained that rick reilly is one of the most overrated writers across any genre or medium, but him going to espn only seals his fate as a terrible writer. one who puts together cliche ridden pablum for [...]

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you may have heard that marginal slightly above average nba player j.r. smith recently got in a bad car accident that left one of his good friends dead. of course, the media coverage has been minor across the nation as j.r. smith is not a big name. however, as you might guess coverage in the [...]

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