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Farewell to Favre?

Posted by pblackwell | 03/06/08

Picture yourself in September, settling into the easy chair with your NFL Sunday Ticket and a handy remote, flipping to the game at Lambeau Field and watching Aaron Rodgers under center for Green Bay as he – what?
You will do a double take. It’s inevitable.
That’s what happens when you’re used to seeing someone at quarterback for 17 seasons and 275 consecutive games, the same country boy from Mississippi wearing no. 4 and flinging it all over the field without a care.
Brett Favre’s career is over – or at least that’s the reality of the moment. He says he’s just plain tired of the whole process leading up to game day, something that’s understandable when you’re 38 and never missed a start since the George H.W. Bush administration...

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The need to be human

Posted by pblackwell | 03/13/08

We have tied politics to unethical behavior since the dawn of time. Thus any sordid story, regardless of the individuals involved, must be placed within that context of altered reality, a world where any sin has the possibility of being brushed off and forgotten.
To do so, though, requires the guilty parties to be in front of the story, to admit to foibles before others (the media, enemies political or otherwise) catch a hold of the details and put them out there for maximum shock value. Once that is done, you’re as good as doomed, though why does Larry Craig still have elected office?
What’s even worse is to be caught in bad behavior when you have preached the opposite throughout your public life...

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Eyes back on the diamond

Posted by pblackwell | 03/30/08

Across the Pacific Ocean, as most Americans gulped down breakfast or kept on snoozing, Boston and Oakland played two games that counted in Japan, lifting the curtain on Major League Baseball, 2008 edition.
How fitting that it began here, thousands of miles removed from the performance-enhancing maelstrom that engulfed baseball almost from the moment the Red Sox beat Colorado in last October’s World Series. Yes, it’s important to root out any kind of cheating in the game, but after a while it’s refreshing just to play ball again.
Thus, you’ll hear nothing further about it in this space. Just an attempt to analyze the season ahead and offer a bunch of useless predictions sure to be rendered obsolete by June, much less October. Here is a look, division by division...

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