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This spring Hank Aaron was saying that Heyward would save baseball as a black superstar is needed.

I saw Vince Young two weeks ago. He was traveling on the "Titan Caravan" which stopped at a Kroger store for an autograph session. Young is a big man, every bit 6-4. I met Benny Perrin, a (White) Cardinal safety from 1982-85. It was about a dozen years ago at a restaurant Perrin owned. He...

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Most of the commentary about Toby Gerhart has been favorable. The thinking is that he will get a lot of carries. IMO Houston was afraid to draft Gerhart and install him as their Number 1 runner. What if he didn't pan out? The press would mercilessly ridicule them, Houston figures. If...

Long-time Houston writer, John McClain, was very critical of the Texans for not picking Gerhart.

I just checked the 1970 draft, 40 years ago. There were 7 defensive tackles taken in the first 3 rounds as far as I can tell. Of these, 4 were flops, 3 of those black.

The Vikings may have drafted Gerhart to motivate Peterson. I have seen this happen before.

Roethlisberger has no one to blame but himself. Why did he think going into a restroom with a drunken female was a good idea? I remember Paul Hornung and Alex Karras being suspened for the entire 1963 season for betting on their own teams. Neither was formally charged with a crime. If a...

I just caught the tail end of the Sean Hannity show. They were discussing Toby Gerhart. The consensus of Hannity's Great American Panel is that Gerhart and his supporters are whining. One of them, whose name I didn't catch, said Gerhart isn't good enough. Hannity wondered how Gerhart almost won...

One of the story lines going in was Don Shula's reputation for not winning the big ones, especially Super Bowl III as Colt coach. In 1972 that was how Shula was seen. Along with this, Carroll Rosenbloom, who had owned the Colts when they lost Super Bowl III to the Jets was still angry at Shula...

I remember this very well. The late Dick Young, a famous columnist, wrote that a trait of Latin players was to grab a bat instead of fighting with your fists. Willie Mays acted as peacemaker. Roseboro kept trying to get at Marichal, but Mays held him and made him wait for medical attention...

You certainly don't know much about American football if you have to ask THIS question.

Don, the book "Three Bricks Shy of a Load," covered the 1973 season and was published in 1974. Roy Blount wrote once in SI, I recall, that he wished the book had been about the 1974 Super Bowl-winning team.

Don, Do you recall the Ernie "Fats" Holmes incident in 1973? He was a member of the original Steel Curtain. Holmes was on an Ohio highway when he became "depressed" over marital problems. He took out a shotgun and started shooting at passing cars. When the highway patrol arrived, Holmes ran for...

An irony that you don't see mentioned in the press is that decades ago, there were more black golfers on the pro tour than there are in the Era of Tiger. I was never a real golf fan, but some names I recall are Charlie Sifford and Jim Dent.

You ought to glance through Simmons' recent book on pro basketball the next time you are in a book store.

I concur with everything Don says above. Roethlisberger's troubles are just beginning. He has the civil suit in Colorado with depositions that will be in the press. Stephen Smith of CBS is already saying that Ben is getting preferential treatment because he is white and the DWFs will lap this up.

The ABC News headline this morning was, "Tiger Woods Overshadowed by Phil Mickelson In Masters Finale." Care to guess who most of the story was about?

I just turned on the Golf Channel. The announcer is going on how amazing well Tiger Woods played this week.

As Don says, Curt Gowdy was a lot easier to listen to than today's announcers and it was speeded up between plays. This was the era of zone pass defense before the 1978 rules changes led to the explosion of passing stats. You didn't seen the dancing displays after an ordinary play. That...

I just watched it. The game was even duller than I remembered. Jim Kiick and Howard Twilley played more than Mercury Morris and Marlin Briscoe, which meant the Dolphins had 18 white players out of 22 most of the game. This is even with cornerback Tim Foley out with an injury. In the 4th...

Reports are that Ben Roethlisberger will not be charged with sexual assault or anything else. The local DA has a press conference scheduled for Monday and is expected to announce that no charges will be filed.

Yes, that was true. Also, the Redskins had beaten the Packers and Cowboys by large margins in the NFC playoffs while the Dolphins struggled to beat the Browns who were considered on the way down. Miami then won a close game at Pittsburgh against a Steeler team on the rise.

On Saturday April 10, the NFL Network is showing the NBC broadcast of Super Bowl VII between the Dolphins and Redskins. The Dolphins were 14-0 in 1972 plus two wins in the AFC playoffs. Despite this, The Redskins were favored.

I saw an ESPN reporter say that Woods is playing better than usual for the first day. He also said that Woods hasn't changed his behavior as promised. He is still throwing his club when angry.