Billy Paultz Reconsidered

to bear in mind next time you hear whining about the liberal media, courtesy of Slate’s Timothy Noah.

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We were one hard bounce off the 18th green at Turnberry away from having that tedious debate all week.
Some people - not the most thoughtful among us -are having it anyway.
What people who say golf isn’t a sport mean is they don’t like or respect golf, and I’m not going to argue with that. You […]

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Today’s Sunday News column, plus a couple additions observations at the bottom:
 The Phillies’ Raul Ibanez has 21 home runs through Friday, among overall offensive numbers that, if the season ended today, would make him a serious candidate for National League MVP.
He’s 37, and has never hit more than 33 homers in a season, and more […]

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Lebron James is the best and most valuable player in basketball by a sizable margin. He was the real MVP last year. That said, I was a little surprised to see how thoroughly Bron-bron dominated the MVP voting considering some of the dumb arguments that have been made against him, i.e.  Kobe’s really the MVP because […]

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Penn State is apparently going to be sanctioned by the Rose Bowl for failing to meet contracual agreements regarding media obligations.
From a statement issued by the bowl:
There were two non-compliance matters.  One involved the failure to conduct a pre-game interview with the Game Broadcaster, as required by contract.  The other involved the failure to open […]

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of the New York Times delivers a dispatch from the frontier of the gay-marriage debate. To summarize: the last (hopefully, maybe) big barricade of American bigotry is slowly, inevitably being knocked down.
No surprise there. The great Nate Silver predicts a majority of Americans will favor gay marriage within the next 10 years or so.
What I was […]

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It’s my like/despise relationship with Bill Conlin again. The Philly Daily News columnist had a pretty good take on the Phillies/Jamie Moyer situation Wednesday (I still don’t understand why the club didn’t offer him arbitration. If he wants a second guaranteed year, and since he’s 46 you’d of course rather not give it to him, isn’t offering […]

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As I said on The Low Post yesterday, Plaxico Burress is clearly an idiot. On the other hand, based on the media coverage of this you’d think Plaxico makes Pacman Jones look like Peyton Manning. Just a little over the top.
How many NFL players routinely take guns with them into clubs? Over the course of […]

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As the lack of consistent activity on Billy Paultz Revisited may suggest, maintaining a blog can be a pain in the ass. Especially if you have a life, and double-especially if you work, and triple-especially if the work is primarily writing of a non-blog variety.
Anyway, the web lost a wondrous presence to such realities last week when Fire Joe Morgan ceased […]

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Perhaps the most important and influential space on the Internet is the “front page’’ of the Drudge Report. About two weeks ago, the lead item on that page was the following (typically blazing) headline: “2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT ‘REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH’ NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT.”
The reference is to an interview Obama did with […]

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