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Entries from June 2008

Vick Case Has Nothing To Do With Race

July 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Baseball · Basketball · Football · History · Journalism · Miscellaneous · Politics · Sports

Geezer, Schmeezer: Brooks Has Done The Job

July 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Football · Sports · University of Kentucky

New Library Fund? Let’s Read Between The Lines

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

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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Beshear Has It Right on Casino Gambling

July 17th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: History · Horse Racing · Miscellaneous · Politics

Can Louisville Learn Anything From the Brooklyn Documentary?

July 12th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Baseball · Basketball · History · Miscellaneous · Politics · Sports · University of Louisville

The Great All-Star Voting Fiasco of ‘57

July 9th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Miscellaneous

Bonds Took What Baseball Gave Him

July 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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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A Fable for the Fourth

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

“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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Tags: History · Miscellaneous · Politics