Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Here’s Sunday’s column about Tiger.
There’s a common contention in the media that golf would die of public indifference sans Eldrick. Nonsense. This nonsense comes from a persistent source, the TV Nielsen ratings, which are largely crap even when not mis- and over-used to the point of absurdity.
There’s an AP story here that illustrates my […]

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I’m doing a column on this for Sunday’s paper, but some quick reactions:
I think we all hate the vague or half-committed apologies that have become typical of disgraced athlete/celebs (”If I offended anyone, I’m sorry?” …. IF???). This at least wasn’t that. It was specific, detailed and comprehensive. Didn’t prove that he gets it, but came […]

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I love this post from the esteemed Matt Yglesias about the utterly ridiculous Sarah Palin so much that rather than link to it, I’m pasting the whole thing:
The always sage David Broder offers up some advice to America’s condescending liberal elites: “The snows that obliterated Washington in the past week interfered with many scheduled meetings, […]

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.. here’s a healthy dose of rationality on the underwear bomber from Fareed Zakaria.

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Former Dubya press secretary Ari Fleischer now runs a sports PR firm. He’s been hired by the BCS, which makes sense since Fleischer may have spent more time defending the indefensible that any man alive.
Matt Yglesias muses that Fleischer’s hiring could fire up the Obama admin. to blow the thing up, as Obama suggested during […]

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I was listening to a Detroit-area sports-talk show while driving from airport to hotel today when the hosts went into a commercial with the tease, “Guess which sports broadcaster and rapper got in a fight?”
After the break they took humorous guesses from callers (Keith Jackson-Little Bow Wow… Vin Scully-Snoop Dogg….) for a while before revealing […]

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There is now a local sports-talk radio show in Lancaster. I bring this up because I’ll be on it Monday night. It’s on 1490 WLPA, which has Fox sports programming most of the day. The show will be coming live from the 915 Cafe on Plum Street in Lancaster city from 6:30-8 p.m. You can […]

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One could make an argument that, by formal analysis, the Yankees have the better offense, defense, starting pitching and bullpen.
Problem:  I just went through the last 30 World Series at length. There were 22 in which, by my reckoning, a superior team could be identified. In those 22, the better team went 10-12. (The other eight I considered, […]

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My all time favorite newspaper headline appeared in the long-gone Philadelphia Journal, a sports-oriented tabloid that could best be described as a cross between the Philly Daily News and one of the colorful, scandalous London Fleet Street papers.
The story was on an economist from the University of Pennsylvania winning the Nobel Prize. It appeared during […]

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

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