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Sports Columns

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 ...

Time to relegate some NFL franchises

With the first NFL overseas game of this season to be played in London on Sunday morning, it got me thinking about some of the rules of English soccer. This probably applies to other countries’ soccer leagues, too, but I’ve only actually heard of it being used in “jolly ol’ ...

Dr. Jekyll, meet Mr. Hyde on the NFL gridiron

This Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde business in the NFL is enough to make your head spin. Well, maybe not yours, but mine for sure. Even looking in the rearview mirror a couple days after these games were played, I’m trying to figure out how the New York Giants picked up their lifeless bodies ...