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Grady Sizemore Cries Foul Over Photos He Took of Himself

Boo hoo, but actually kind of funny in a lame, pathetic way.  Major League Baseball player Grady Sizemore took  ”personal” (steamy, racy) photos of himself.  Now the photos are all over the internet and Mr. Sizemore has the lawyers of Major League Baseball chasing down all the websites demanding the photos be removed.   Photos [...]

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Lame Excuses Don’t Fix Baseball Steroids Woes

 From yesterday’s Wall St. Journal,  a tidbit from their panel on “The Future of Sports,” Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball, on steroid use in baseball (bold for emphasis is mine): I’ve had one writer after another come to me and say over the past decade, “I don’t know how they expected you to know. I was in [...]

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Super Bowl Euphemisms Time of Year

Super Bowl. Super Bowl. Super Bowl. There I said it: “Super Bowl!”  Ha. The NFL so closely restricts the use of the words Super Bowl that companies resort to using euphemisms in place of the real words “Super Bowl.” Wikipedia notes that one use of euphemism is “to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the uninitiated.”  In [...]

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Bailout Bowl – Football Bowl Games Sponsored by Bailout Recipients

Tax dollars have been hard at work  play.  Some of those high profile sponsors of college football bowl games were big recipients of TARP bailout money.  Who is enriched? Follow a simplified money trail.  Your tax dollars … to the government … to banks in the form of a bailout … to ad agencies … to [...]

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Woe Goes Seattle

Seattle’s Recent Lame Track Record: Washington Mutual:  hometown bank the largest banking failure in US history (for now at least) Boeing machinists union: on strike since September Seattle Mariners: lost 101 games, finished 39 games out of first place Washington Huskies: 0-5 Washington State Cougars: 1-6 Seattle Seahawks:  1-4 Seattle SuperSonics: RIP (left town after a lame assurance they would not leave [...]

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Spirit of the SuperSonics Seeks Justice

Harnessing the power of voodoo and other mystical powers, Seattle area basketball fans have begun to extract justice on those who lied, cheated and stole the Sonics: Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., was the most obnoxious of the den of thieves that stole the SuperSonics from Seattle. McClendon’s wealth came from 30 million shares of [...]

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