Incidentally, the coach who fell out of favor with Wale at Robert Morris was none other than ex-NFL tight end and former Jets coach Joe Walton.

The internet responds: "Geez! If you didn't want me to threaten your life and the lives of your family, you would have thought about it before you decided to be a woman who expresses her opinion in the media. I mean, what were you thinking!"

This is old news. I wrote this takedown of judged sports more than nine years ago:

http://www.sports-central.org/sports/2004/08…

So you smack this one down and the others will stop it to avoid a similar fate. As a side benefit, it will encourage others to break the locker room code of silence and speak up.

Brevity is the soul of comedy.

One of the reasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers' 1970s success (along with steroids) was their pipeline to HBCUs. After the Pittsburgh Courier - once black America's newspaper of record - closed for the first time in the mid-1960s, the Rooneys hired sports editor Bill Nunn in the Steelers' personnel department. Nunn,…

Tony Dungy - 1977 Pittsburgh, emergency replacement after injuries to Terry Bradshaw and Mike Kruczek. 43 yards, 0 TD, 2 INT, 16.1 rating. Converted to defensive back, where he played most of his career. Trivia: The last player to throw an interception and make an interception in the same game.

Wasn't it just a few years ago that the Dumb People were all butthurt at Pepsi for supposedly leaving the words "Under God" off of a partial text of the Pledge of Allegiance?

As a newspaper reporter, I'm forbidden to use the Oxford comma at work. However, the publisher of my book is located in Oxford, which probably means I'd better start getting used to it.

"nothing gets college kids more riled up than when their ability to drink and/or smoke weed is somehow hindered."

That list of jobs tougher than sportswriter should include steelworker and pizza delivery driver, said the former steelworker and pizza delivery driver-turned sportswriter-turned-general assignment-reporter and author married to a night shift nurse.

In 1997, I won first-place Keystones for sports columns in two out of the three non-daily newspaper circulation categories.

In other news, dozens of self-important sportswriters prove Dan LeBatard's point.

Aw man! And I paid full price!

More names better than Krimson Tyde:

True story: Press Maravich used to make his son dribble a basketball out the back-seat window of his car as he drove along the streets of Aliquippa, PA. That boy grew up to be "Pistol Pete" Maravich, the greatest scorer in NCAA history and one of the NBA's finest ball-handlers ever.

Not that it matters. Forcing your…

Correction: The Dallas team in the 1962 AFL Championship was the Texans, later to become the Kansas City Chiefs. The Cowboys were never in the AFL.

This guy is wrong, but even if he weren't, it wouldn't be an argument for getting women out of sports. It would, however, be a great argument for getting rid of sports.

A few more years with current economic income distribution and the whole country will be a Hunger Games theme park, only with reality.

Interesting - and timely - question about working in a prison. Just last week, I wrote an article about ironically-named high school football coach Tom Liberty, who worked 30 years ago as a recreation director and football coach at State Correctional Institution - Pittsburgh, also known as Western Penitentiary. Here'…