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Sports Columns

Could colleges trade their players?

Watching a bunch of the MACtion games — you know, the midweek Mid-American Conference football games that were on TV from about mid-October to mid-November — it got me to thinking about the transfer portal and how easily players can move around. Not only from year to year, but heck, I ...

Let’s cluster the bye weeks in the NFL

Being in the middle of the bye “season” in the NFL, I started thinking about how all the teams’ off weeks are so spread out. Doesn’t seem fair if you get one early and your closest competition is just now getting a chance to take theirs. This season, the byes are spread out between ...

Time to calm down, everybody

Maybe in this election season — that MAY be over in five short days, or may have a long ways to go if some of the strange things that happened in 2020 happen again — we’re all getting too sensitive on one hand, too amped up on the other. Watching the national sports TV shows earlier ...

Who will begin a meteoric rise at midseason?

I just got to thinking after this past weekend’s games that bring us almost to the midpoint of the NFL regular season. We’re all in awe of the splendor of some teams, and I suppose you’d call it awe of the NON-splendor of some others. So when we get around playoff time looking back at ...

82-year-olds starting to sound alike

Something got me to thinking when I heard ESPN play a recording of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones during a weekly radio interview on Tuesday with a local station, when he said things like “I can get somebody else to ask these questions” and other bizarre statements attacking show hosts ...