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January 2012

Murray State keeps racing on

We are near the end of January of 2012, and there is only one undefeated team left in all Division I basketball. One must think, it has to be one of the perennial powerhouses, right? A Team like Duke, Syracuse, UNC or Kansas? Wrong. Last night, Syracuse, the number one team in college basketball, fell [...]

The Paterno Interview: Sorry, not buying it, Joe

I know many good people who want to let bygones be bygones, and give Joe Paterno a free pass on the Jerry Sandusky affair. Indeed, he fulfilled his “legal” obligation back in 2002 when he notified superiors that one of his direct reports had witnessed a child being raped in Penn State’s Lasch Football Building. [...]

The Declining Middle Class; Help Wanted: We need Ideas

Just about all the ideas that have shaped societies up until the last 300 years were religious in nature, except for China. The first major secular ideology to make headway and last was liberalism, a doctrine first associated with a commercial class and then an industrial class in Europe in the 17th century. In its [...]

Another 2 years of Selig; Pardon me while I Get Sick

Back in the day, we had a great commish, his name was Bart Giamatti. Remember him? Now there was a man who knew how to run baseball. Not a bad writer either. His last real job before becoming the commissioner of baseball was President of Yale University. He passed away much too soon; Baseball misses [...]

Sports Thoughts…..

With the big change in the Colt’s organizational structure this week, it would seem that anything is possible with regards to the team’s continued employment of Peyton Manning.  The Colts will watch Manning’s recovery up until March 8, when they must decide whether to pay his $28 million option bonus, or cut ties with him. [...]