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I remember Paul Eells. Before he went to Arkansas, he worked for the Nashville NBC station. He was the broadcaster for Vanderbilt football and basketball when he was in Nashville.

It's as if the NFL had a Gentleman's Agreement that after Riggins was gone, a white RB would no longer be the main ball carrier. Since Toby Gerhart has the triangle numbers (height, weight, speed), it will be interesting to see what interst the NFL has in him.

I grew up listening to ball games on the radio. In the early 1960's, it was the only way to follow sports on a day to day basis. The weekend was the only time you could see sporting events on TV unless you lived in or near a city with a big league team. Younger people would be amazed that you...

Before Limbaugh briefly had the gig on ESPN, he wanted to be one of the announcers on Monday Night Football. Rush has always called the NFL one of his favorite things.

The Great Black Quarterback Experiment has been the great hope of sportswriters for 40 years now. I recall a piece in Newsweek by the late Pete Axthelm during the summer of 1969 on several black QB's who were playing in the preseason games that year. James Harris of Buffalo was the one who...

What happened to Al Davis' supposed philosophy of "Just Win Baby?"

During the early 1980's, I read every boxing magazine available. A good many if not most were hoping Cooney would win the title. Even Howard Cosell was hoping Cooney would win. Cosell had him on his ABC interview show and treated Cooney as he would have Ali or Sugar Ray Leonard. Sport magazine...

Gerry Cooney was criticized by some before the Holmes fight for not having fought tough competition. Cooney also had a lot of very favorable media coverage. Most of the writers for the boxing magazines wanted Cooney to win the title, from what I could tell. A white heavyweight champion would...

Yes, Cooney would have been a very big star if he had won. The Klitschkos would probably be bigger if they went out and scored spectacular early KO's in most fights.

It is strange to see the argument that the Klitschko brothers aren't big stars because they are not Americans. I have written before on the Forum that it was considered a big boost for boxing when Ingemar Johansson of Sweden won the heavyweight title in 1959. It was usually unspoken but taken...

The amazing thing is that Vitali Klitschko could leave boxing for 4 years and come back and win title fights at age 38. This is unprecedented. Vitali is something of a 6-7 version of Gene Tunney. Before the Klitschko brothers, fighters of that size were usually awkward brawlers.

I have posted before that as far back as 1974 it was being predicted that in 10 years over half of NFL QB's would be black.

One thing O.J. knew was that being nice to the fans and press would put money in his pocket. Many black athletes never figured this out.

I remember this very well, as I used to listen to KMOX St. Louis during that period. I never have heard this Charlie Johnson story and don't believe it. Johnson had white wideouts only during his time on the Cardinals, Sonny Randle, Bobby Joe Conrad, Billy Joe Gambrell, Dave Williams. Jackie...

I referred to the 1968 SI article (actually a series) a few years ago. The series of articles published by SI in the summer of 1968 was titled, "The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story." The theme, for the most part, was not that blacks were superior, but the discrimination they had supposedly...

Recently, I looked at a so-called murder blog run by the LA Times. It tracked murder victims in Los Angeles. There was one black male being killed after another. A typical scenario was a black man walking down the street by himself. A car with 2 or 3 black males would drive up, shoot him dead...

In 1994, I went to Decatur AL to take a new job. I saw more black/white couples in that area than before or since. It was at the time of the O.J. Simpson trial, which made it especially noticeable. In some cases, the women were of a very low quality. Once, I saw an attractive middle-class...

To make the claim that the Patriots-Bills game on Monday night was fixed would be to say that Tom Brady is a fraud.

Worster was more interested in getting stoned on grass aside from not having the triangle numbers of Csonka, Bulaich, and Riggins. Is there anybody else on this Forum who thinks Johnny Musso should have been the main Bear runner over Walter Payton? People who are sympathetic to our themes upon...

Oh well, here we go again. Worster and Musso were very good college runners who peaked at that level, aside from Worster's insistence on being in a drug-induced haze. Osborn, Josephson, Woodeshick, Willard, Bulaich (frequently injured), Kiick, Reeves, and Bill Brown had plenty of carries and...

Jim Seymour was not drafted by the Bears in 1969. He was drafted by the Rams as the 10th player chosen. Seymour was then drafted by the U.S. Army and missed the 1969 season. He did not go to Vietnam as Rocky Bleier did. When Seymour got out of the army in 1970, he was traded to the Bears...

My information is the jury was 6 (originally 7) blacks, 5 (originally 4) whites, and one Asian. My instinct is that at least some of the white jurors from Nashville were unwilling to vote death. Of the 3 available verdicts, death, life without parole, and life with parole, they compromised on...

Thanks for the comments. Cobbins took the stand against the strong advice of counsel and lied. I am certain that Cobbins thought the black jurors would vote not guilty on Channon's murder if he denied it on the stand. At least, this didn't work. An LWOP sentence is worse than Cobbins thought...

I am something of a true crime junkie and have followed this case closely. There were 5 white jurors on the final panel, not 3, with 6 blacks and 1 Asian. The jury was selected and bussed to Knoxville from Nashville. The jury obviously bought the sob story from the defendant's female relatives...