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So of course everyone in the sports world around the nation is fully entrenched in the Brandon Davies story at BYU. For those totally not up to speed he was an outstanding and pivotal player on the Cougar basketball team that was dismissed for violating the school Honor Code by having sex with his girlfriend. Yes every school/university around the world has a list of codes, ethics, conduct regulations that all students must follow. Some schools are a more stringent that others.  One would have to put the likes of the Stanfords and Harvards up near the top of that list as ...

  New York’s diehard Jets fan, Carl Mayer, an ambulance chasing lawyer who had once worked for Ralph Nader, had his case against Bill Belichick thrown out by the United States Supreme Court on Monday. The highest court in the land had no comment on the case. Mayer wanted to sue Bill Belichick for at least $185 million, claiming the NFL games were rigged. He had rationalized the suffering and humiliation Jets fans had to endure from the loss to the Patriots to arrive at his punitive compensation. Mayer felt his and all fans' $100 tickets were worthless after videotaping ...

If you haven't read Bill Simmons' most recent column: Greed is good in NFL labor talks then you may not get the whole gist of my rebuttal.  I wouldn't even call it a rebuttal; it's actually just a column that shows the other side of things. Thanks to Bill Simmons and I hope you enjoy.Take a deep breath, suspend all disbelief and walk through the following hypothetical (and admittedly ridiculous) scenario with me...It's December 1994.I'm 10 years old, growing up in Western Pennsylvania, and my dream is to become a national sports writer.   Western PA is known as a hotbed for sportswriters. Many great ...

A man is recovering after police say he woke up to find his dog had eaten a part of his foot. Officers say 61-year-old James Little was sleeping on his couch when his dog had eaten three of his toes and a portion part of his right foot. As the world continues to crucify Michael Vick for his role in leading a dog-fighting ring, we forget that people and animals make mistakes. Little suffers from neuropathy caused from diabetes. He fell asleep on his couch and didn’t feel the dog chewing on him. The dog has been taken to Saving Grace shelter, and ...

The Lingerie Football League, the new expansion Las Vegas Sin, are ready to enter the gates of hell in Sin City. On February 2nd, 2011, the Las Vegas Sin was announced as an expansion to the successful Lingerie Football League founded by Mitch Mortaza. Initially, Las Vegas was chosen as one of the four teams to be introduced in 2008 when the league began, but when the league appeared in 2009, Las Vegas was no where to be found. It didn’t make much sense for a Lingerie Football League not make a home in “The City Of Sin." That is why starting ...

We have an unemployment rate that is still atrocious. People continue to lose their jobs in this country at an alarming pace. Our health care system is unacceptable. It is finally being deemed "unconstitutional" in many states who have been fining people who cannot afford health insurance. Like anyone refuses health care and insurance for kicks and giggles—it is because it is simply not affordable. We could be paying over four dollars per gallon for gasoline within the next couple of months. People who are working minimum wage jobs will actually lose money driving to work if they do not have a short ...

As Liberal as I'd like to think I am, my first ever love in political television programming was the staunchly conservative Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. Back then, I was in my mid-teens, and I was deathly bored with news programming. Even The Daily Show, which I had once admired and watched nightly had grown uninteresting and bland to me since Craig Kilborn's departure and Jon Stewart's replacing him. Two years later, Comedy Central decided that Tough Crowd's conservative approach did not 'fit' the image the network wanted, and it was over. For me, it was that show that started ...

A former Las Vegas showgirl inherited the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband and wanted to move the team to the warm climate of Miami, sound familiar LeBron James? In order to accomplish the removal of the Indians she needed to reduce attendance at Municipal Stadium below a total of 80,000 ticket sales which would trigger an escape clause in the team's lease with the city of Cleveland. She instructed her general manager Charlie Donovan to hire the worst team possible from a list she had already prepared. The list included veteran catcher Jake Taylor, who has problems with his ...

The latest appearance of Fenway Park on the screen was in local boy Ben Affleck’s view of Beantown. In The Town, pleasant and upscale Charlestown serves a haven for bank-robbing Red Sox fans.  Stars Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner case the joint in the right-field stands during a Yankees game. Affleck knows Fenway Park like a local boy with season tickets, but he primarily shows up for big games with the Bronx Bombers when he is in town, sitting next to the Red Sox dugout in the prestigious first row boxes. Over the years, Fenway has been a backdrop to ...

Are some sports really meaningless?  If you turn on ESPN or listen to the radio then it would sure seem so.How many times have you heard these remarks?The college basketball season is meaningless due to the size of the tournament field.Baseball's regular season is meaningless because there's 162 games in the season.Fights are meaningless in the game of hockey.Every day there's a new person saying something in sports is meaningless.  The problem is that they forget to extend their sentence and say it's meaningless to them.I just don't get it.  If something is so meaningless then why are you talking ...