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Odds & Ends-Volume 134

We begin Odds & Ends this week with the decision by ESPN to fire baseball analyst Curt Schilling for posting an anti-transgender message on Facebook and also added a few […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 133

We begin this week’s Odds & Ends with something I feared would happen but hoped wouldn’t and that is ads on NBA Jerseys. They’re coming! The NBA approved a three-year […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 128

We begin Odds & Ends with the announcement of Peyton Manning deciding to call it a career. The 18-year NFL quarterback,who turns 40 later this year, will announce his retirement […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 114

We begin Odds & Ends this week with the disappointment that is the “postponement” of “Down in the Valley”, a documentary in ESPN’s 30 for 30 series that was slated […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 113

What do you do if you’re a team that lost 94 games this season? Well,if you’re the Oakland Athletics you promote two of your executives. That’s exactly what Billy Beane […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 108

Does the decision to place Chris Heston back in AAA confuse anyone else? Up until yesterday,it confused me,but now it makes sense. Heston,who has 11 wins and oh,by the way,a […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 101

Last week, Odds & Ends covered All-Star voting and how I believe that tweeks need to be made for the voting system due to the fact that damn near every […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 99

American Pharoah did something no other horse did in my lifetime until Saturday. he won the Triple Crown. In Elmont, New York at the Belmont Stakes, the three-year old bay […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 92

Okay,so it’s time to talk about the planned arena sculpture. We’ve heard all the outrage from fans and citizens alike. It’s ugly. It has nothing to do with Sacramento. It […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 85

Memo to 49ers fans: Richard Sherman having dinner at midfield following the Seahawks 19-3 win on Thanksgiving is not a sign of disrespect. What was disrespectful was how bad your […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 68

I’d be remissed if I didn’t mention the controversy surrounding LeBron James leaving Game 1 of the NBA Finals early due to cramps and heat exhaustion from the air conditioning […]

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Odds & Ends-Volume 58

I think that one of Things That Need to Go in 2015 is criticism of expecting fathers taking time off to be with his wife to experience the birth of […]