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The District Attorney probably thought that it would be impossible to get 12 jurors to vote guilty anyway.

Let's see now, a female basketball player stabs a teammate to death, and the media treats it as a routine sort of crime? Still another sign of the times.

In my childhood, Duke Snider was a very big name. I remember seeing him playing for the LA Dodgers on TV in the 1959 World Series. The only home run I recall seeing him hit was on a game of the week in his last year (1964) as a Giant, of all things. The Duke hit it over the right field wall in...

Newton sounds more like Tiger Woods every day.

I apologize. I didn't mean to be overly defensive. The Browns had another rookie WR in 1961 in addition to Bobby Crespino named Charley Ferguson. He was black. The Browns unloaded Ferguson in 1962 and kept Crespino for two more seasons. Things were different 50 years ago.

Did you see the 1961-63 Cleveland Browns play on TV? I did. How do you know Crespino had "so few opportunities?" I have the Browns 1961 highlight film on DVD. Yes, Crespino was on the field several times in this film. In 1961, Ray Renfro, a 30-year old veteran was still going strong for the...

In the three years Crespino was in Cleveland after being a first round draft choice, he caught a total of 6 passes. He was a WR or split end as they were called then. He played some TE for the Giants after being traded in 1964 but didn't do that much. In the 1960s, if you didn't produce, you...

I made a very unscientific survey of the 30 WRs drafted in the first and second rounds in the NFL (and AFL) draft from 1961-70. There were more taken high in the late 60s (none in 1960 so I started with 1961). Of the 30, 4 were hall of famers--Lance Alworth, Paul Warfield, Charley Taylor, and...

I'm going to check the WRs drafted in the first round from 1960-69 and see how many were busts.

A few months ago, there was a piece at Cold Hard Football Facts wondering why there were so many draft busts. After all, prospects were far more heavily scouted than in the past, including the combine. CHFF couldn't figure it out.

Tonight (Sunday) at 8pm ET, ESPN is showing "The Color Orange: The Condredge Holloway Story." It is part of their Year of The Quarterback series, the first being Tim Tebow. This film is about a QB, Condredge Holloway, who played for Tennessee over 35 years ago. I saw him play several times...

Don't forget these are Ron Paul supporters.

Norm Van Brocklin took the Eagles to the 1960 NFL Title with perhaps the weakest supporting cast a QB who won a championship ever had. Many people don't think that counts because it was the pre-Super Bowl era.

The late Joel Buschbaum, in his scouting report on Alstott, predicted he would do just that. Buschbaum wrote someting like, "Alstott brings back the days of Larry Csonka and John Riggins.

The Christian-Newsom torture-murders are finally being featured on one of the true crime networks, the Investigation Discovery Channel. It will be on the premiere episode of "Sins and Secrets" Thursday night at 10pm ET. It repeats 3 hours later and on Saturday. The premise is how a "quaint...

It's worth noting that Sanchez's parents named him Mark, not Roberto or Jorge. Very suburban American.

Yes, during his playing days Plunkett was considered white.

What is especially significant is that these are Ron Paul's hard-core supporters. The libertarians, of every stripe, have maintained the unrelenting stupidity of welcoming a nonwhite majority.

Don, Thanks for the reply. You raise some good points. Rand Paul impresses me and could be a serious candidate in the near future.

I asked this back in 2008. What do the people on this Forum see in Ron Paul? In case you've forgotten, he ran in 2008 and despite publicity and funding did little. On top of that, he wilted when attacked by The New Republic and "disavowed" what was in his newsletter not too many years earlier...

Funny thing, when the Patriots lost to the Jets in their playoff game a few weeks ago, many posters declared in so many words, "It was fixed because the Patriots have too many white players."

Tonight (Friday), the NFL Network is showing the first 3 episodes starting at 8pm ET. They are being repeated later that night and in the next few days.

Yesterday, Limbaugh also said that the Pepsi ad showing a black woman hit a white woman in the head with a pepsi can was "kind of funny."

The DVD has neen released. The Sony edition is around $25 and the Blue-Ray, $31. Yesterday, I rented it from a video store. This is the best option as in my opinion, it isn't worth the puchase price. The director, one Amir Bar-Lev, both in the film and a commentary shoves Tillman (and his...

This awareness probably didn't exist 5-6 years ago.