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It’s Time for Big-Time College Football to Split from the NCAA

February 23, 2013
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It’s Time for Big-Time College Football to Split from the NCAA

The NCAA has long been a farce of a governing body, more hypocritical and corrupt than the old Soviet Politburo — but with “death penalties” that are only metaphorical, and with fewer pairs of contraband blue jeans smuggled to favored apparatchiks. It is long past time for the commissioners of the Division I-A football conferences (I refuse to use the Newspeak version: “FBS Division”) to convene the football equivalent of a “Continental Congress” and sign a Declaration of Independence from the NCAA. With apologies to…

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Te’o Hoax Tars Notre Dame with Embarrassment

January 17, 2013
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Te’o Hoax Tars Notre Dame with Embarrassment

Manti Te'o is in for a world of embarrassment, to be sure, in light of the revelation that his "late" girlfriend was a fiction. But there's more to the story, as Notre Dame's actions in this and other incidents throughout the past year bring its integrity into question and another major American institution shows clay feet. Corruption among a nation's authorities can undermine public confidence rapidly.

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Review: ‘Sheer Joy in Detroit’ a Delight

August 23, 2012
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Review: ‘Sheer Joy in Detroit’ a Delight

I'm always on the lookout for books and poetry related to Michigan, and I chanced upon 'Sheer Joy in Detroit' this past weekend. I was attracted to the tale set in my old stomping grounds where I once toiled as an ink-stained wretch for the automotive industry, worked at the Detroit Athletic Club (the setting for a crucial scene in the novel), and witnessed firsthand the devastation of the once-great city of Detroit and many of the family businesses that once thrived there. 'Sheer Joy'…

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Top of the World, Ma!

March 30, 2012
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Top of the World, Ma!

"On the summit I felt a mixture of apprehension and curiosity."

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Tebow 3:16!

January 9, 2012
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Tebow 3:16!

I know, I know, God doesn’t care who wins football games, I think. But I do know God likes drama; the Bible is full of it. And Tim Tebow is nothing if not drama. Yesterday’s amazing win over the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers just added to the young legend. And it had to be this way didn’t it? At least for one more week.

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LA’s Greatest Sports Moment is one of America’s as well

December 24, 2011
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LA’s Greatest Sports Moment is one of America’s as well

I got a little early Christmas present this morning when I made my daily visit to the LA Times website. Being born and raised in southern California and being stuck in another dysfunctional state, Illinois, it’s a way to keep up with my hometown sports teams. Over the last several weeks the Times has asked readers to vote on the city’s greatest sports moments. Number one is a moment that every sports fan alive at the time no matter who their teams are remembers.

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Penn State Scandal Exposes Unseemly Media Motives

November 16, 2011
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Penn State Scandal Exposes Unseemly Media Motives

The Penn State University football scandal has been ugly in a variety of ways, but not all of them are immediately obvious. In particular, the mainstream press, so proud of its progressive views on most moral matters, showed the puritanical streak they always reveal when a person widely believed to be of good moral character can be knocked down and branded a hypocrite. The media coverage in this case displayed the classic American journalism tactic of conveying salacious stories under cover of moral indignation. This…

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Patriotism on Display in Stanley Cup Finals

June 13, 2011
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Patriotism on Display in Stanley Cup Finals

The battle for Lord Stanley’s Cup looks like it will go for 7 games. Two periods into Game 6 and the Boston Bruins lead the Vancouver Canucks by the score of 4 to 0.  In the midst of this classic battle between the Canucks and Bruins, one man stands in the goal crease wearing some very pro-American artwork. Boston Bruins goalie, Tim Thomas’ mask is emblazoned with images that would inspire any Tea Party Patriot. The mask’s back-piece includes the stars and stripes sporting the…

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Spontaneous Order Out of Potential Chaos

May 16, 2011
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Spontaneous Order Out of Potential Chaos

I agree with Jonah Goldberg that this video, posted at the Corner, is a wonderful display of humanity.  But if Hayek was still alive and at the game, he might also call it a well-intentioned but imperfectly understood plan, that is rescued by the spontaneous, self-ordering principles of traditional rules and morality.  

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Cowabunga! Studio Tries to De-Christianize True Story

April 13, 2011
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Cowabunga! Studio Tries to De-Christianize True Story

by Warren Moore You may remember the story of Bethany Hamilton, the surfer from Hawaii who lost an arm to a shark in 2003, and has made her way back to riding the waves. Her inspirational story has made its way to your local multiplex, in the form of the new movie Soul Surfer. However, keeping the “soul” in the movie was a challenge in itself, as CNN reports. Hamilton credits her Christian faith and the support of people at her church for overcoming her…

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Golf: The Agony and the Ecstasy—and the Revelation of Character

April 12, 2011
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Golf: The Agony and the Ecstasy—and the Revelation of Character

By Mike D’Virgilio Are any golf fans out there know how special early April is in the calendar. This is the month when professional golf’s first of four majors, The Masters, takes place in spring’s full bloom of Augusta, Georgia. What a site. My response is always to marvel at the handiwork of a God who could conceive of and create such beauty, and how people can take the raw material of His creation and turn it into something ineffable. Then there is golf. There…

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TNT Apologizes for Morgan’s Palin Comment

January 28, 2011
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TNT Apologizes for Morgan’s Palin Comment

Turner Network Television has issued an apology for a comment made by comedian Tracy Morgan in an interview before last night’s NBA game broadcast. Asked about the appeal of former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and invited to compare her with comedienne Tina Fay (his costar on the NBC comedy 30 Rock), Morgan said that Palin is “good masturbation material,” making sure to repeat the phrase for emphasis, calling her “great masturbation material.” TNT apologized publicly. “It’s unfortunate Mr. Morgan showed…

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Loyalty: The Lost Virtue

August 21, 2010
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Loyalty: The Lost Virtue

Author’s note: a few months ago I profiled martial artist Ray Fisher on this site. The following segment is another excerpt from our work in progress The concept of loyalty seems positively archaic in this age of everyone-out-for-themselves. It could be argued that Aleister Crowley’s dictum “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” has indeed come to pass. In some ways, this is not necessarily a bad thing: the idea of individual freedom is implicit in our national motto of “life,…

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Olbermann Bounced from ‘Sunday Night Football’

August 9, 2010
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Olbermann Bounced from ‘Sunday Night Football’

The odious political hack and professional circus clown Keith Olbermann has been removed from the in-studio team for NBC’s Sunday Night Football NFL telecasts. Olbermann actually did a decent job of narrating highlight film, which any reasonably competent TV personality could do, but I simply couldn’t bear to see that repugnant individual every week and was thus forced to turn to another channel during his highlight segments and the discussion periods in which he was involved. I’m sure that such was the case with many…

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NFL’s Urlacher Not Bothered by ‘Neo-Nazi’ Slur

July 28, 2010
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NFL’s Urlacher Not Bothered by ‘Neo-Nazi’ Slur

Brian Urlacher of the NFL’s Chicago Bears showed yesterday how a gentleman handles being the butt of a politically incorrect joke: he brushed it off and agreed that it was funny. As Chicagobreakingsports.com reports, the All-Pro Bears middle linebacker hadn’t heard about the incident until a friend told him about it. Beck, on his FOX News TV program, had been looking at photographs of a group of celebrities listed by a website as “The Blackest White Folks We Know” (which, incidentally, was not a very…

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