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Today, Tennessee lost to Alabama 29-9. UT is now 3-5 for the season and 1-4 in the SEC. Losing to Florida, Georgia, and Alabama doesn't help Fullmer's job security. There might be worse losses to come.

Today, Vanderbilt lost to Duke 10-7 on their home field. After starting 5-0, Vanderbilt is now 5-3. I have seen Vandy follow this pattern many times.

He sure has a good name for a QB at a Texas school, especially the University of Texas. Colt McCoy is a name out of a Dan Jenkins novel.

For a major, heavily-promoted release, it hasn't done well at the box office. As Don wrote, the NFL Network was showing ads every half hour for the film. Still, it will be on the shelf in every video store in the country. Plenty of people will rent it.

I just did a Google search for "Ernie Davis, The Express." A ways down the page, someone from Missouri says that he left the theater after seeing the film "hating, just hating the color of my skin." The movie is affecting many DWF's. The first item on the page concerns the West Virginia...

About 15-20 years ago, you would see quite a bit of female nudity in movies. I read somewhere that many actresses did not like it, but the producers and directors forced it on them. Some actresses, when they became a big enough star, insisted on no nude scenes.

He didn't say "only whites are racist," but he thinks in terms of "white racism" only. Last night, he told me that he "will be upset with my country if Obama loses." Yes, my liberal professor friend was startled when I challenged him by saying that nonwhites have kept their own prejudices...

When I told my professor friend that Racial Tolerance is a one-way street (only white people have it), he was surprised by the idea. It had never occured to him. The professor claims not to have seen white self-loathing.

I watched some of the Ram-Cowboy game yesterday. At one point, an announcer said that the Cowboys were the most talented team in the NFL.

George W. Bush's having Colin Powell and Condaleezza Rice as Secretary of State helped prepare the way for Obama.

Today I was talking to a college professor friend of mine. He was again raving about what he considers the most positive development of his teaching career. He said, "Young white people do not have the racial prejudice of their parents and grandparents. It's a great development." I told him...

"The Express" is bad, bad, bad. There are outright fabrications galore. This article (http://www.tampabay.com/features/movies/article837721.ece) quotes two of Davis' Syracuse teammates who say that Davis had a "warm, comical personality that made him an all-star off the field. Qualities missing...

I have wondered if the fact that the media and fans did not like him all that much had something to do with Pat Tillman's decision to join the army's Rangers. He probably assumed that if you prove your worth as a Ranger, you would be accepted. I read a lot of articles in the sporting press...

Ernie Davis was a very popular athlete in his time. We can criticize the cultural marxists, but should recognize that Davis deserved the Heisman and was a great player. I was 11 years old in 1961, and recall seeing Ernie Davis' great game in the 1961 Liberty Bowl on TV. It was mentioned in...

As I wrote on another thread, this is an old story. I can't tell you how many times I have seen writers refer to Boston's "racist fans," which causes the Red Sox and (during the 1980's) the Celtics, to load their rosters with white players. The 1970's Busing riots are often referred to...

Someone who lives in New York City told me a few months ago that one reason he doesn't attend many baseball games at Yankee Stadium is the "many fat black and hispanic players." Another reason is the extremely loud music that is constantly blaring out.

As I wrote in a previous post, Vanderbilt has had years when they started well, but around mid-season, lost to a team they should beat. Then, the season would go straight downhill. Will this happen again in 2008?

Cris Collinsworth was a sensation in his 1981 rookie year with the Bengals, catching 67 passes for 1009 yards. Cincinnati went to the Super bowl that year. Collinsworth was drafted in the second round and beat out a black WR, David Verser, who was the Bengals No. 1 pick. A major reason for...

Around 1990-92, the Red Sox were taking a lot of heat for being "too white." The Boston writers were wringing their hands and weeping over the team's so-called "racist history." The Boston Red Sox did not integrate until 1959.

I recall when college football players were generally called "boys." No one thought anything of it, and it had no "racial" or derogatory connotation. Around the mid-60's, blacks decided that they didn't like the word "boy," and you gradually stopped seeing athletes referred to as "boys," blacks...

Tomlinson is 29 and in his 8th season. A running back will start slowing down at this time, especially one who depends on speed and elusiveness.

The program was titled, "In Cold Blood," after the title of Truman Capote's book on the murder of the Clutters in rural Kansas in 1959. A major difference is that the 1959 murders were written about in a best-seller by a big name author, and the book was made into a major feature film 8 years...

I heard on the radio that the last time Vanderbilt was 5-0, FDR was in the White House. In recent decades, when Vandy won a few major games, they would have a let down and lose to somebody they should beat. We will see if they can avoid it this year.

The Vandy fans have wanted the academic bar lowered for over 50 years now. Around 35 years ago, athletes were allowed to attend Peabody and play on Vanderbilt athletic teams. I once heard a Tennessee fan joke that Vanderbilt ought to let football players attend predominantly black Tennessee...

I just saw a documentary about the Wichita Massacre on MSNBC. It has been shown several times this year, but this was my first time to see it. They are replaying it at 2 AM ET, early Sunday if anyone wants to see or record the program.