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People buying sports teams shouldn’t do it to be business savvy, they should do it for love of the game and do everything they can to win– even if that means losing money
SCOTT JACOBS
If there is one line that has driven me to a point of no return lately, it’s this one: “Sports franchises [...]

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The best of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and around the league.
MITCH BLATT
“Why do basketball players keep pulling stuff out? Guns, penises… What the hell?”
- George Lopez, referring to certain NBA players named Oden and Arenas
“Party like a C**kStar”
- Jack Barakat, from the band All Time Low, unintentionally referring to Greg Oden on Twitter
“I know his name, [...]

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Kurt Warner was great in every sense of the word
SCOTT JACOBS
How do you surmise the man who defied the odds, and achieved success even he probably didn’t see coming?  How do you try to explain the influence he’s had, both on the field and off?  How do you put into words the miracles he worked [...]

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MITCH BLATT
Now I know the BCS is kind of unpopular, but I wasn’t aware of any provision in the Constitution that makes it unconstitutional:  Justice Department: Obama May Take Action on the BCS
As a governing note, Congress or the President can claim that the “interstate commerce” clause allows for regulation of college football, but essentially [...]

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MITCH BLATT
For those of you who don’t know, Greg Oden’s d*** surfaced online earlier this week. There’s even a Facebook group about it: No Homo but I Saw Greg Oden Naked and I was Really Impressed.
I have not seen it, because Greg Oden’s d*** isn’t at the top of my interest when it comes [...]

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Why ban someone for betting on their own team if you aren’t going to ban someone for using steroids to break the home run record?
MITCH BLATT

Last week, Busch family member and the son of Cardinals owner (and very properly named for such an aristocrat) Adolphus A. Busch IV criticized Mark McGwire, Bud Selig and the [...]

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MITCH BLATT
Brett Favre just lost, so you would think that ESPN would go into overdrive with coverage of Brett Favre crying, speculation about whether he would retire, interviews with teammates about whether they think he’s gonna retire and the like.
On their website, they don’t have any of that up. They have an NBA story [...]

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Random thoughts from people on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere, who make it easy to fill up space.
MITCH BLATT
“I definitely do not see a larger trend developing. Brandon Jennings was not academically eligible to play college basketball, and if he were he would have spent one year at the University of Arizona and not in Europe [...]

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