September 13, 2024 Posted in  NFL News, PSAs

Well, regrettably, it’s finally time for me to address the elephant in the room when it comes to football, aka Concussions. Miami Dolphins Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (I hope I spelled that correctly) has had three known concussions in his five year career.

There has been a debate as to whether or not Tua should retire after his most recent concussion. I am convinced that he should retire, and, in order to ward off a public relations nightmare, the NFL ought to pay him the rest of his contract’s value, give him the value of another, similar contract to the one he has right now, and health care for the rest of his life. The league can afford it.

June 23, 2024 Posted in  Baseball, Hockey, NBA, NFL News, PSAs

There has been a marked increase of Fanbases who think their team is much better than they actually are since the end of the 20th century. The fans hopes for their team get destroyed when their superstar player gets injured or something else that isn’t good happens to him. Take heart, Fanbases. There’s always next year.

#10) Detroit Lions. Their fans think they’re going to be Super Bowl Champions with Jared Goff at quarterback and an owner who is cheap, and still believe in the curse of Bobby Layne to this day. It’s bad on both ends of the spectrum.

#9) Los Angeles Dodgers. There is no way that the Dodgers are going to win another World Series with their manager letting the analytics department do his job for him.

#8) New York Knicks...

May 10, 2020 Posted in  PSAs

This pandemic we are in has really dampened the spirits of many sports fans worldwide. However, you can be rest assured that your humble blogger will never cave in to a pandemic. Take courage and together we will emerge stronger and more united than before.

Sports is coming back. It’s a matter of when, not if. But we have to have an attitude of “Charge!”, not “Retreat!”, if we’re going to win this war. There’s no way around it.

January 14, 2020 Posted in  Baseball, PSAs

Sign stealing in Major League Baseball.

The Astros got caught using technology to steal signs of catchers designed for the pitcher’s exclusive use. A runner on second should be the only one authorized to relay the sign to the hitter, not a centerfield camera or someone in the hitters’ team’s dugout whacking a trashcan. The integrity of the game is in question.

The penalties for illegally stealing signs are in this case a one year MLB ban. The team subsequently let the offenders go and as of the time of this writing there is one more hammer to drop.

The penalties are harsh, warranted, and insufficient at the same time. Harsh because the punishees didn’t themselves engage in the activity. They were warranted because the punishees should have put a stop to the practice yet they didn’t...

October 1, 2019 Posted in  NFL News, PSAs

Ah, the old helmet to helmet hit. Yes it made football popular in the 1970s, but, because people’s brains turned inside out, it is banned at all levels of football.

I have always said there are times to be macho, and only to a certain extent. What Raiders LB Vontaze Burfict calling a meeting with Jack Doyle’s mind, aka hitting his helmet with his helmet, was just simply bush league. Burfict got what he deserved, though the suspension will likely be cut in half on appeal.

Now, the fun part. I hope the NFL and NFLPA sanction a made for TV event where Burfict is tied to a goal post and the offensive players who now have future CTE because of Burfict tee off on him.

Sweet vigilante justice.

August 9, 2018 Posted in  NCAA Sports, PSAs

Domestic violence is never an acceptable occurrence, and those who engage in it should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Those that cover it up should also be punished but to a lesser extent

Let’s face it, “The cover-up is worse than the crime” is merely a myth. It is known as being an accessory after the fact, which calls for more leinent punishment. The justice system subscribes to this theory. If Perpetrator A hits Victim B, A goes to jail. If Coach C knew about it for years and doesn’t do diddley squat, C is fired. However, if C reported it to his boss, Athletic Director D and D does nothing, then D takes the fall and C gets disciplined only lightly, like a multi-game suspension.

To be fair, we don’t know if B is telling the truth...

March 26, 2018 Posted in  NFL News, PSAs

There are injustices throughout our world but in sports the greatest injustice is that Colin Kaepernick still is not on an NFL roster as of the time of this writing. Yes, he knelt for the national anthem. Yes, he wore socks that depicted police officers as pigs. My message to NFL executives is “Get over it.” It’s been a year and the man has every right to have a career in the NFL. He is better than most starting QBs in the league.

As someone who has seen people of his own race supress people of Colin Kaepernick’s race for more than three centuries, allow me to say that these injustices have to end or else we all will suffer very severely for a very long time...

January 24, 2018 Posted in  NBA, PSAs

Tom Brady. LeBron James. Two examples of authentic greatness. 8 Super Bowl appearances. 8 NBA Finals appearances. Who did the two each have around him? Nobody.

Stephen Curry. Kevin Durant. Draymond Green. Klay Thompson. All Golden State Warriors at the same time. This group is the epitome of manufactured greatness, meaning they didn’t have to work hard because, as the old adage goes, “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” That is used by those with a rather weak ideology.

To be the best, you gotta beat the best. Don’t join forces with the champs just because you can’t beat them in the championship round. Joining a title holder who won the title two seasons prior is gutless, because they really don’t need you to win the championship...

December 9, 2017 Posted in  Amateur Sports, NFL News, PSAs

On Monday, December 4, 2017, a football game was held in Cincinnati between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals. It featured multiple personal fouls, injuries, suspendable offenses, but, most damning, a player who may never walk again.

For the Shazier hit that paralyzed him from the waist down, he committed the cardinal sin of tackling/hitting: He had his head down on impact. Key thing to consider.

As for the nature, being masculine is OK. Being too much of that is a problem. Football is and embodies masculinity. The overmasculinity of teams like the Steelers and Bengals is toxic masculinity, while being smarter in hitting/tackling is acceptable masculinity.

Course of action: Implement a rule that if a player lowers his head to hit someone, that player is to be ejected...

September 27, 2017 Posted in  AH81, PSAs

Earlier this year Aaron Hernandez hung himself from a prison window. Fast forward to last week where it was discovered that he had the second most severe case of CTE, a degenerative brain disease, caused by repeated severe blows to the head. But did Aaron Hernandez actually have CTE?

He was allegedly, a frequent drug user. I heard from two different sources that Mr. Hernandez did drugs like marijuana and angel dust, or PCP. Could they have contributed to his brain’s decadence?

We still do not know about whether or not it was CTE that claimed the life of Aaron Hernandez. His rampant drug use, allegedly, likely was the main factor and, contrary to popular opinion, not CTE. So what can be done to combat this?

Two things can be done to marginalize the number of cases like Aaron Hernandez...