This is one of the few ways in which I had not associated The Ataris with fraud.

Must have been tough for Ben to be forced or coerced into something he didn’t want to do.

Philippines: shithole country.

Seconds later...

A more connected to publishers than I writer could make a mint selling to the Sixers brass a book to base their management on and call it, “Maybe He’s Just Not That Good a Player.” Chapter One: If he can only play eight minutes a half before needing a break...

Are we still pretending Republicans will be held responsible for anything ever?

Where refs have never acted vindictively beyond reason. Right, John Higgins?

Too late. Christopher Plummer’s already been cast.

But the band that takes that name will be featured here at year’s end.

And remember, once Tim Donaghy was ushered out, there was never again a problem with crooked reffing in the NBA. One bad apple will tend to itself and not affect the other apples it interacts with on a daily basis, as the old saying goes.

You mean Gruden wasn’t hired on the assumption that Tony Dungy was going to spend 15 years rebuilding the team for him first?

“Wow! It’s amazing he lasted so long!”

“...why would anyone who likes pro wrestling not just watch WWE?”

I like his newly adopted “Rudy from the Fat Albert Gang goes to a leather bar” look.

Is he still the Surprise Inter-Gender Boxing Champion of the World, or did James Harrison win that title from him?

Does that mean my small intestine is Diamond Dallas Page?

I believe Charlie Daniels was saying the sheriff is near.

I guess you can’t get as much air time out of the story “Athletic Children Not Nearly as Talented as Parent Believes Them to Be.”

I wish I had to guess what your thoughts on ACORN were.

The American Dream is a poor farmer turned Confederate soldier dying in the mud, certain that despite his failing effort in the losing side of a war, maybe someday his children will get to own slaves of their own.