You went deep into the musty history books for that one: I’ll be interested to see how many people react with a “Wut!” (Being a musty, lapsed historian, I loved it.)

This is darker: during college, a priest hired a football player to recruit male athletes to pose for him for pictures, semi-clothed, in a dorm room.

I’ll be that guy: when something unusual happens in sports (especially the men’s result), I start to wonder if cheating was involved. I hope I’m wrong.

Regrettably, this is a sports culture problem that is exasperated by lower rung stops on the coaching ladder: the coach desperately wants to escape to a more lucrative gig, does immoral/unethical things to win (make that upward more happen), and school has little time, money or inclination to oversee a marginal entity…

You’d be surprised. I’ve worked at a school of medicine for 20 years, physicians are similar to cops in that they circle the wagons when a fellow doctor is accused of wrong doing.

Speculating with a modicum of history: golf and tennis were both sports of the upper socioeconomic strata throughout there early forms. As such, the prevailing starched, rectitude of the uptight wealthy became ingrained in the rules and expectations of the games. The tradition survives today despite both games…

Don’t forget ESPN is owned by Disney: any coke use gets magnified with that “kid-friendly” connection.

The Zen koan of takes.

Punters are glory boys compared with long snappers, centers or guards. They have so many “feel good”metrics compared with the aforementioned positions: those guys just have the, “at least you didn’t fuck up this week like you did last week” metric.

Yeah, no, that is not a good idea. I work in medical school, and the chances are, other physicians will back up a doctor under suspicion of “malpractice”. It is not too dissimilar from police. Many doctors see vulnerability just in the sheer number of patients they see in a week, let alone a career. They tend to feel…

The possibly inevitable predicament for Cousins is the team most likely to pay the most for his skills is also the team who is most likely to ruin his career. Thus, he can leverage the team’s desperation for maximum gauranteed money, but understand that this is likely the last contract he will sign.

The canard of capitalism is that success is based on intelligence, hard work, and a prescient vision of where the “markets” will be. The truth is closer to some bat shit crazy dude wandering the fringe of society manages to cobble together a pile of cash through incessant yaking (e.g., people cave and throw some cash…

You probably want to refrain from concluding anything until sentencing is completed.

Because this is important, it needs to be clarified: due to cost cutting and shortages in health care providers, many clinics now post signs in exam rooms that state the patient may ask for a third party, but one will not automatically be provided. This change in protocol is problematic because it puts the patient in…

I’ll be chuckling for far too long because of this: “It involves a man named Rush Hulk—not his real name”

Well, that explains everything.

Neighbor in college was a binge drinker who took on each weekend with gusto. The dorms had antiquated radiators along the walls that exhuberently pumped out heat that would warm a Siberian hovel.

I feel so bad for this young man, his family, friends, and others near him.

I mean who among us doesn’t love a visor? Except of course balding men, and men with wicked comb overs, and who can forget the boycott by medieval monks. But aside from them, everyone loves a visor.

Given the media consensus was that the Jags would collectively pee themselves at the sight of the mighty Steelers, and run from the field after a humiliating loss; the defense, offense, special teams, mascot, and water boy can talk all the shit they want. That was a comeuppance plain and simple.