The day must come, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, when we judge people “not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

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So now, heading into Brooks’ fifth season, there’s a feel-good aura around UK football that hasn’t seemed to exist since Tim Couch was throwing TD bombs to Craig Yeast.

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I feel ashamed of myself for even entertaining thoughts that such devious tactics might actually be employed right here in River City. Please forgive me. I know it’s uncivic of me to question the motives of our public servants

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No matter what Fletcher and his narrow-minded synchophants might say, Kentuckians have no reason to fear casino gambling. However, to the contrary, they have plenty of reasons to embrace it, beginning with all those Kentucky cars that cross our bridges every day so the participants can gamble in Indiana.

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Like O’Malley, Jurich had the most leverage because, in the absence of an NBA franchise, no arena could be built without having U of L as its principal tenant. But unlike Moses, Abramson acquiesced to U of L in order to keep the project alive.

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Come the All-Star break, a late surge of Cincinnati votes put all the Reds’ starters except Crowe into the NL’s starting lineup (Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals won the voting at first base.)

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Unlike Rose, who broke baseball’s golden rule, Bonds did not break a baseball rule if he used steroids. He may have broken the law, certainly, but he did not break a baseball rule. If anybody deserves to be punished, it’s commissioner Bud Selig and the owners who turned their heads to what was obviously happening instead of having the guts to do something about it.

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” said Tom. “That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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