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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
The late A. Bartlett Giamatti's book reminds us that there are things in life that are timeless, and that can, and should, be enjoyed regardless of how the world around us turns. The Yale professor of Renaissance Literature and university president who became Baseball Commissioner wrote of the sublime nature ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
A sportswriter giving kudos for FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision aka Division 1A) schools hiring black coaches (excuse me Americans of unquantified partial African descent) illustrates PC amok media types in his article (page 3).He says "In the grand scheme of things, 11 out of 120 is still an extremely low ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
For those of us in Tigers Nation, Labor Day finds the Bengals up by seven games over the Minnesota Twins, who never give up, and eight above the Chicago White Sox, who appearantly did when they traded slugger Jim Thome, a future Hall of Famer, ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
For those of you in the Detroit Tigers diaspora, an update on where our boys of summer are. When last I wrote, before the season began, it was to analyze the roster, the competition, and to predict a first-place finish for the Bengals. The season is well-past the one-third mark, ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Several excellent perspectives on Jack Kemp's passing.
ESPN has a collection of good remembrances.
Also From:
Mona Charen
Janice Crouse
Rich Galen
Larry Kudlow
Remembering a "bleeding heart conservative" who recognized that Freedom, not government is the path to happiness and prosperity.
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Mark Fidrych, the improbable folk hero of the 1976 Tigers, passed away unexpectedly today, at age 54. Bursting onto the national scene in the summer of 1976, after not even making the team out of spring training, "The Bird," as he was called, stormed the baseball world by talking ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
The Michigan State Spartans have defeated, in consecutive games, last year's national champions (Kentucky), and two #1-seeded teams (Louisville and the U-Conn), one of which (Louisville) was the #1 overall seed. They face North Carolina tonight at Ford Field in Detroit. They're underdogs, and UNC beat them soundly at ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
The President is open to taxing health benefits, an idea for which he criticized Sen. McCain last fall, when the latter advocated it. (Sen. McCain at least wanted to mitigate the damage with a tax credit.) Why do this? To finance overhauling the health care system. So, let me ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
On Super Bowl weekend, what else is there to do in Michigan, always on the sidelines because of the Lions, but to dream of baseball? So, on to the Tigers...
They underachieved, they were hurt, they were saddled with dud contracts (think "Edgar Renterea"), they were picked to win it all, ...
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