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I know that with North Korea exploding a nuke and four weeks out from an election I shouldn’t be digressing to such a minor topic as baseball but…Joe Torre should stick around as Yankees’ manager. I can hear the clicking of the mouse as many a reader goes off to another place and, bless you, […]

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So, today is a big day in sports for yours truly. I’ll be using the clicker to flip back and forth between the NCAA national basketball championship game and the game featuring those wonderful pinstriped boys from the Bronx (though rain is forecast out in Oakland so it may not come off). In hoops world, […]

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A little switch in subject today. I’ve been reading, here and there, about the new book about Barry Bonds and the questions about his steroid use. In fairness, I’ve never been a fan of Bonds–among the vast sea of self-centered sports figures, he seemed to be in a class of his own. He had his […]

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To be honest, I have no rooting interest in this game and I only watch because of the party that happens each year with a pile of folks. From my point of view, the whole football season is just filler time until pitchers and catchers report and a real sport gets back in motion.

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As I wrote last year, I was glad to see the Red Sox win—at least it would end the sorry whining each year from their fans. But, as I documented, then, the image of the poor downtrodden team that appealed to progressives seemed odd compared to their large payroll, all-white fan base (compared to the […]

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So, it looks like the Red Sox will finally banish the demons and win a World Series for the first time since 1918. As a Yankee season ticket holder, I’m rooting for them–the Sox were the better team this year (The Yankees better record was bloated by feasting on the likes of Tampa Bay and […]

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