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The NFL Quarterbacks Fantasy Prison League

My friend – comedian Ryan Conner – and I were talking about football and we considered writing a crappy NFL quarterback power rankings. Then we thought you don’t need us to tell you Blaine Gabbert...

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Guest Post: Comedian Ryan Conner on NFL Quarterbacks Going to Prison

My friend — comedian Ryan Conner — and I recently spent time wondering how all the quarterbacks in the NFL would fare if they went to prison. We each wrote about it on our websites. See my post here,...

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Who should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame, if we looked at the Hall like a...

In a few hours the Baseball Writers Association of America will announce which players it has elected this year to the Baseball Hall of Fame – if any, of course. I’ve read a lot of recent arguments...

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Keep the Pro Bowl, it’s great

The Pro Bowl was yesterday – the NFC beat the AFC 62-35. Lots of people look at wild scores like that and say scrap the game. It’s an abomination, they say. There’s no defense, the players aren’t...

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How I became a 49ers fan; or, My blood feud with Ickey Woods

My family and I moved from New Jersey to Virginia during the Christmas break of my third-grade year. A few weeks later, in January 1989, the San Francisco 49ers and the Cincinnati Bengals played in...

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We’re still making talented people

Yesterday on my Facebook page I asked my friends: are more great musicians alive or dead right now? Great is a subjective word, but we know what it is. I don’t much care for Pink Floyd, but I know...

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Hail to the Pigskins

Lots of opinion writers have been arguing lately that the Washington Redskins should change their name to something that sounds less like a slur against Native Americans. I’m not a Redskins fan or a...

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What Tim Tebow’s failure teaches us about America

Yesterday, the day a basketball player became the first openly gay athlete in one of the big four pro team sports, the cover story on ESPN’s website was about the New York Jets cutting their...

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If they’re immortal, they can wait: Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014

As a baseball fan since the mid 1980’s, I’m very grateful for sabermetrics, the revolution of new statistics that add a deeper understanding of the game. I really appreciate OPS, WAR, BABIP and the...

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Rules for Speaking

Several weeks ago, when the weather started turning cold, I wrote this on Facebook: “It’s time to dust off the disclaimer about saying things like “I’m from So and So, and gosh darn, the people from...

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