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Sports Columns

When is enough enough?

I’ve wondered that for awhile when it comes to firing coaches. At what point does a general manager or an athletic director look at what is happening on TV or what they’re reading in newspapers and say I can’t take it anymore with this man or woman? At the college level, there’s ...

Cheap tickets for certain NFL games not really nirvana

Have I got a deal for you! We’re leaving Saturday for Washington, D.C., though I better not tell you why. Wait! You mean you’d really accompany me to see the Detroit Lions play at the Redskins this weekend!?!? Well, sorry, I’m not really going, not even with the $7 seats I found ...

Villains outnumber the heroes nowadays in our sports culture

Sports are oftentimes divided into heroes and villains. The heroes are your favorite team, favorite player, people who put you in awe of their abilities or just ones that can inspire you not only in athletics, but in your everyday life. They help you get through your tough times by ...

The less said the better with last week’s NFL prognostications

Yikes, I don’t know if I talked myself out of some obvious picks or what, but a 3-10 record last week doesn’t exactly make me a persuasive pigskin prognosticator, does it? So back to the drawing board with these picks. As I’m spending so much time on research, there won’t be a long ...

Things can only get worse for fans of bad teams

From a young age, we’re taught that when times are tough, or things are just not going our way, that it won’t last and it’ll get better soon. However, if you’re a fan of certain teams, you start to wonder if you’ve been lied to your whole life and you get mad at yourself for ...