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The Yankees Are Worth Two And A Half Billion Bucks!

As they have for the past seventeen years running, the New York Yankees have once again weighed in as the most valuable team in Major League Baseball.  According to Forbes Magazine, they are now worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.5 Billion! Half a billion bucks later comes the Los Angeles Dodgers at around $2 Billion.  Then drop off another …

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by admin on March 27th, 2014 Leave a comment »

May The Best Tires Win

The NASCAR race on the big two-mile track at Fontana, California was hard on tires this year. One after another the biggest names in stock car racing fell to the back of the pack because of rubber issues. When the final restart happened on Lap 205, the guy with the freshest set of tires, Kyle Busch, rushed out to pass …

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by admin on March 25th, 2014 Leave a comment »

So Much For My Bracket

When the #11 seed Dayton managed to beat in state rival Ohio State by one point it sent shockwaves through all those folks that bothered to fill out the ‘Billion Dollar Bracket” and then, quite logically, picked the mighty Buckeyes to triumph over Flyers of Dayton. So, in one of the first games of the first day of March Madness, …

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by admin on March 24th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Why Is Everyone Suing The NCAA?

Currently there are at least five major lawsuits against the NCAA. The pending legal challenges could well bring major changes to the face of college athletics as we know them. Marc Emmert has been the commissioner of the NCAA since 2010 and his office has been under almost constant attack since he took over. They made a big mess down …

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by admin on March 22nd, 2014 Leave a comment »

Madison Square Garden Welcomes Back The Zen Master

The crowd at Madison Square Garden was mighty glad to see Phil Jackson when he was introduced at the Knicks-Pacers game last week. The ‘Zen Master’, as Jackson is known as received a hardy round of applause which turned into a raucous standing ovation. Mr. Jackson seemed very pleased. Of course this was not the first time that Phil Jackson …

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by admin on March 21st, 2014 Leave a comment »

New NFL Rules Being Discussed By Committee

The competition committee from the NFL Commissioner’s office is considering the implementation of rule changes that would allow the game referee to consult with other refs manning an officiating headquarters in New York. This will be one of the major issues to be presented to the NFL team owners when they have their annual meeting down in Orlando from the …

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by admin on March 20th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Musburger & Palmer Get The Call For The SEC Network

If you think you have heard the last of ‘the South shall rise again’, get ready for the SEC Network which is set to go on the air with ESPN in August. This long awaited event is the result of many years of negotiations and planning by SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and his staff and the folks at ESPN. Member …

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by admin on March 19th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Bet The Madness

In this year’s version of March Madness you can win a cool billion bucks without ever laying a dime. Ain’t that great? All you have to do is to beat odds of 9.2 quintillion to one. How many of you out there know what a quintillion is? Warren Buffet got a lot of press when it was announced that he …

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by admin on March 17th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Booze In The Bleachers

 Nick Saban recently made the snide comment that when he was at LSU he could smell Bourbon down on the sidelines. Guess what coach, football fans drink at football games. College or Pro, it makes no difference. It’s part of the game.   If the Universities could just tax the booze that is smuggled into their stadiums each week, that …

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by admin on March 15th, 2014 Leave a comment »

Mike Slive Is Not Ready To Go Yet

The Commissioner of the SEC is such a great job that some folks just can’t quit, even when they reach 73 years old. At least not when there is so much going on. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said recently that ‘there is too much to do to consider stepping away’. So Slive is not retiring just yet. His contract is …

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by admin on March 14th, 2014 Leave a comment »