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Many people just want to side with the winning team, many even skip Church on Sundays, because the game is on, and will feel more resolve in the fleeting of sports victory rather than the eternity of spiritual victory. Some Florida Gator fans have even seen the spiritual meaning in the Tim Tebow led victory over the LSU Tigers at night, after Tebow had been injured with a concussion. The recent World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees has led me to thinking.  That being about the misery of New York Mets fans, including Jon Stewart of The Daily ...

I have just about had it with ESPN.  On one hand, I can imagine that ESPN employs respectable people, yet the big picture of ESPN is that ESPN is nothing more than propaganda that only serves to divide people in many ways, including racial lines. ESPN is nothing more than yellow journalism and not in a harmless or entertaining way. On one hand, you'll get hacks that laugh at distraught fans (see, College GameDay); on the other hand you'll get more hacks that washed out from some school yet somehow insinuate themselves into places that they don't belong (see, cast of Around The Horn ). Ooh, but we ...

As Peter Griffin would say, "what grinds my gears" today is an industry of supplements and steroids (not the same, but similar) that has run wild with ridiculous promises. This article is by no means a true essay, because I won't use standard reference notation. Instead, I will simply say that I have gathered my information from a variety of news articles, John Basedow (who promotes PEDs), and Vince DelMonte (who does not promote PEDs).   A Sports Culture of Deception One example has been the ever annoying and incessant ads on MySpace, "I Got Ripped in 4 Weeks." These ads, like cigarette ads, ...

They Are Who We Thought They Were: Sex Sells in Erin Andrews Case On Oct. 3, Michael David Barrett from the Chicago area appeared in court after the FBI arrested him for a series of illegal videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews that Barrett allegedly posted on the Internet and attempted to sell to TMZ.com. The videos were filmed through a peephole in several hotels that Andrews stayed at, while on assignment for ESPN. The videos, posted in February 2009, were made in July of 2008 and went unidentified until ESPN outed the video on DonChavez.com when ESPN counsel David Pahl sent a ...

On last night's "Sport Report" with Stephen Colbert, Colbert commented on Terrelle Pryor's decision to show solidarity with Michael Vick by putting the name "Mike Vick" in the black paint under his eyes. Pryor defended his statement with a strangely ambiguous comment: "Not everybody is a perfect person in this world. I mean, everyone does...kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me." Colbert would comment: "Sounds like somebody wants to play for the Raiders." Don't get me wrong, I liked the joke. I didn't have a problem with that jab, as I had with some wannabe comedians posing as journalists at ESPN. At ...

The nature of blogging is to be an outcast that occasionally gets attention from the mainstream media.  I write critically, sometimes through fiction and often through rhetoric, and that rhetoric can sometimes dominate the article. Bare with me on this, because it takes some indirect explaining. The mainstream media will rarely admit to reading a specific blog, but when you start to hear things in the mainsteam media that sound similar to something you wrote, you start to wonder if it is just a coincidence. I don't hate the mainstream media per se, because in fact, most of my sources are mainstream media ...

As Peter Griffin would say, "What grinds my gears," today is an industry of supplements and steroids (not the same, but similar) that has run wild with ridiculous promises. This article is by no means a true essay, because I won't use standard reference notation. Instead, I will simply say that I have gathered my information from a variety of news articles, John Basedow, and Vince DelMonte. One example has been the ever annoying and incessant ads on MySpace, "I Got Ripped in 4 Weeks."  These ads, like cigarette ads, target kids, teens, and adults to believe that you can look like ...

(This story is intended to be an inspirational tale) Has it been eight years already? I realize that many of my articles have a tendency to be a form of gonzo history, in which I insert myself into the bigger picture of history. That might be because my AP History teacher (as a senior in 2001) would always tell me to see, "the forest from the trees."  Later that year, I could not help but notice a single dead tree within a forest along Old San Jose Road through the Santa Cruz Mountains. I was in New York on September 1, 2001, which is ...