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These new technologies start out on the fringe as solutions looking for problems. Then they sneak up on you. Twitter crossed that bar from the province of teenagers and the empty headed—not necessarily the same people who post vain and vapid microblogs of their action at a given moment. Then Michael Lombardi put me straight. The former Oakland Raider front-office executive who now writes for The National Football Post tweets. Tweeting is the act of posting a 140 character entry on Twitter. When Twitter was new and experimental, folks, like me, posted under a screen name...that whole "names were changed to ...

Conan kicked off hist first night of the Tonight Show in LA last night with a few funny sports references. O'Brein, who hails from the Boston area by way of New York, opened his new show by trying to flag a taxi to take him to California (in doing a last minute checklist he had come to the realization that he forgot to move to LA). The hilarious montage followed a crazy-legged Conan dashing across the country. As it so happens, he stopped by the friendly confines in Chicago only to be chased off Wrigley Field. Conan had two other memorable sports references, ...

We live in a cocoon. We think we are isolated. We think that all the world is our stage to enact. Standing at a crossroads and  looking from the periphery, it seems like the biggest canvas is before us to etch our dreams—using charcoal, clay, and sand we cement our souls into concrete slab of definition and destine our perimeter. But an earthquake, an avalanche can shake or rock that concrete edifice and crack it. On that day, we lay bare our souls and search the ruins for our beginnings. We ask if this is what we have let ourselves in for, sold our ...

I’m sick of this.  “This” encompasses many things, but none more so that the athlete who gives “The Point”. “The Point” occurs after many things. Home runs, touchdowns, a big team win, a tennis win etc. The athlete looks to the sky, raises one or both arms, and then gives the big G-O-D a point. Give me a friggin’ break.  You expect me to believe your “pious” nature has gotten you dingers? Nope. To all you morons who feel the need to do this, let me help you out. God has much better things to do that fix it so you can pad your ...