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In 1960, the sporting press was overjoyed to see the Swedish Ingemar Johanssen win the heavyweight title. They gave him plenty of publicity.

The Big Orange DWF referred to above calls himself "Orangeatang." He has another comment in which he says: "I don't think it's a matter of character. Do you think Travis Henry, Darwin Walker, Deion Grant, etc were good guys? Of course not. The difference is that Fulmer was good at protecting...

Here is another comment I just saw from a Big Orange fan: "I would rather have a team full of criminals that wins championships than a team of angels and FCA do-gooders." This is standard with the Big Orange Nation. The DWFs who root for the University of Tennessee football team take a...

One account I read said that Shipley should have made a fair catch.

A while back, ColdHardFootballFacts.com had an article about how many top draft choices flop. Since prospects are put through far more extensive pre-draft drills, and are presumably scouted more thoroughly than in the past, CHFF wondered why there are so many flops. They mentioned the large...

The rulers of this country have changed over nearly three centuries, but one thing has not. Those in charge have always liked to bring in cheap labor. This "cheap labor," however, has always turned out to be very expensive.

Yes, 6-7 years ago, media types hoped that the QB position might soon become majority black. They may have wanted Favre to retire in order to speed things along. I have written previously that I saw predictions as far back as 1974 that NFL QB's would be over half black "in 10 years." This was...

Once upon a time, Time (along with Life magazine) was the mouthpiece of Eastern Establishment Republicans. They would regularly give puff pieces about Nelson Rockefeller and other liberal Republicans. U.S. News & World Report was believe it or not, somewhat conservative, or at least straight...

The position of Vol fans: You can't win with choir boys from Mayberry. You have to have thugs to win. You have to keep them happy. I have seen the above statements on message boards. By the way, I am a old-line Tennessee fan.

The SI article makes some of these points. Musial has been married to his high school sweetheart for 70 years and has never been controversial. Literally everyone has always praised him as the nicest baseball superstar of all time. It could be that if Stan Musial had gotten into trouble, the...

St. Louis Cardinal hall of famer Stan Musial is on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated. There is a good story inside.

It's fair to point out that when Jim Brown came to the Cleveland Browns in 1957, the veterans on the Brown defense hit him as hard as they could in practice.

About 15 years ago, I was reading a column in The Sporting News by Dave Kindred. He was raving about black athletic superiority. Kindred said that if you go in a pro football locker room you see that blacks have much better looking bodies.

Campbell did score a TD on the play.

Has Sports Illustrated or ESPN taken notice?

After the 1976 season opener, in which Raider strong safety George Atkinson hit Lynn Swann in the back of the neck, Chuck Noll called the Raiders part of the "criminal element" in the NFL. Whereupon, Atkinson sued Noll for slander. At the trial, HOF WR Lance Alworth testified for Atkinson...

They are only paying it lip service. When do they act on it?

It was Sammy White in Super bowl XI.

A good point. The late Paul Brown used to claim that he wanted good citizens with character, especially in his Cleveland days. PB only drafted one Tennessee player with the Browns (Mike Lucci) after 2 years with Doug Atkins, whom he unloaded to the Bears, where Atkins was a legendary DE. Atkins...

On Wednesday night, July 28, the NFL Network is showing the America's Game programs on the 1968 New York Jets and 1970 Baltimore Colts starting at 8 pm ET.

Don is right on target as usual.

This must mean it's 20 percent black.

Before the 2003 Orange Bowl, O.J. Simpson showed up at a USC practice. He had been invited by Justin Fargas' father, according to the reports. Fargas, then a USC RB was a O.J. worshiper. Simpson went out of his way to be seen with Carson Palmer, who had won the Heisman that year. Palmer looked...

Palmer has won the Heisman trophy and is a starting NFL QB. For him, the systen works. This is the world he knows.

Bush still has the Heisman trophy he received at the ceremony. Each recipient receives a trophy and his school gets a copy. USC gave back their copy. There is a possibility the Heisman people will demand that Bush give back his own trophy. By the way, USC still displays their copy of O.J...