Bob McCarty Writes

Major League Baseball lost me as a “rabid” fan after a 1981 strike caused the cancellation of 713 games.  I simply could not rationalize how players could complain about the compensation they were receiving when they were earning six-, seven- and eight-figure salaries — not to mention product endorsements and other perks — for playing [...]

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Question: The New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 35-31, in EA Sports’ pre-game simulation of Super Bowl XLIV.  But what if the simulation, using Madden NFL 10 on XBOX 360®, turns out to be wrong.  Who will New Orleans fans blame if their beloved Saints lose in their first opportunity to take home the [...]

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More and more Super Bowl ads are starting to sneak into the public spotlight as the game draws near.  Two hitting the airwaves today are sponsored by foreign automakers and have fun with the longevity of a football player and the absurdity of extreme environmentalists. The photo above shows quarterback Brett Favre appearing in a [...]

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It’s not often when one can draw parallels between professional athletes and elected officials in Washington, D.C..  Today, however, one of those opportunities surfaced, causing me to conclude that politicians, like professional football players, should donate their brains to science. The idea began to gel in my mind when the National Football League announced just [...]

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Members of the mainstream media are having a field day after it was announced today that Dave Checketts, owner of the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues, had decided to drop conservative radio talk show legend Rush Limbaugh from the group interested in purchasing the National Football League’s St. Louis Rams.   Conveniently, they ignore the [...]

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Were you surprised to hear that DeMaurice Smith, National Football League players union chief, surfaced this week as a loud-mouth Rush Limbaugh detractor opposed to the possibility of the conservative radio talk show host/legend owning a partial interest in buying the St. Louis Rams?  You shouldn’t have been.  After all, records at OpenSecrets.org show that [...]

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If a post at The Thunder Run is accurate, National Football League officials have made a boneheaded decision related to members of the U.S. Armed Forces Color Guard and their participation at the Super Bowl in Tampa Feb. 1.  [See UPDATE #2 at end of post] The blog received the email below, which outlined the [...]

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