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There was a fair amount of mention concerning Phillips' assault on the female Nebraska basketball player during his senior year. Most of the comment was that it had unfortunately cost him the Heisman Trophy. A theme I saw several times was that Tom Osborne had to recruit "inner city" players...

My feeling is that this judge will give him the longest sentence possible.

The judge felt she had to bend over backward not to let in the 1995 murder trial, and the subsequant civil trial. This is why she did not let Gilbert and the Goldman's attorney testify. The fact is that Simpson's actions related to the Goldmans pursuit of him. The jury may well know this...

According to Lawrence Auster's VFR (http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011553.html) Real Clear Politics has Obama ahead by 5.3. Several months ago, an email correspondent of mine who is a DC writer said that McCain is another Dole who will lose.

As for the mention of Jim Taylor being the last white to lead the league in rushing; I'm pretty sure that the Cardinals' Jim Otis won at least one rushing title in the 1970s. Not much to brag about, I know.... Jim Otis led the NFC with 1076 yards in 1975. That year, O.J. Simpson led the AFC...

It appears that Obama now has a real lead (http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011531.html). Real Clear Politics has McCain trailing by 4.8 points. This is after both conventions, the Palin selection, and the first debate. Obama should actually be 20 points ahead, which is what a seemingly...

Several times I have seen articles that stated that blacks are more athletic than whites. In the next paragraph, the writer will declare that there are no racial differences in intelligence. I distinctly remember this in a Sports Illustrated piece by the late David Halberstam in the 1980's.

A point that the article missed is that many of the white thousand yard runners of the past played fullback, not tailback. They could even used this as an excuse since the fullback is now strictly a blocker, rather than a team's major runner which Jim Taylor was. Also, Entine neglected to...

When Joe Namath was the most famous player in pro football during the late 1960's (and during the AFL-NFL rivalry), he would speak of what he called an "NFL-style quarterback." By this Namath meant a QB who threw a lot of short passes to his RB's that made his completion percentage look good...

I first followed the NFL in 1958, age 8. The biggest advance in the quality of play since then has been the quarterback and the place kicker. When I see films from the 1960's, most of the quarterbacks don't pass as well as the top QB's of today. The soccer-style kickers can kick farther and with...

Usually, these so-called debates don't matter much in the end. Kerry looked better than Bush in 2004, but still lost. It is also hard to "debate" when both sides agree on most issues.

Many years ago, I was watching Monday Night Football when O.J. Simpson was one of the announcers. O.J. said at one point, "The NFL should have more of the kind of quarterbacks they have in the Canadian league."

I remember the play by black Steeler WR Dave Smith in 1971 that is mentioned. It came during a Monday Night game in Kansas City. Smith was traded the next season and was soon out of the league.

Lawrence Auster's VFR site reports (http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011434.html) that McCain has closed to within five points of Obama in New York State, where John Kerry beat George W. Bush by EIGHTEEN points in 2004. "Obama has had a reversal of fortunes among Jewish voters. His...

In 1974, for a time, Both James Harris and Joe Gilliam were starting quarterbacks. Harris for the Rams, and Gilliam for the Steelers. This caused some writers to predict that in ten years over half of NFL QB's would be black. One writer even thought that the tendency of coaches to call the plays...

One reason that I recommend this game is that people who weren't around then can see how the game was played over 30 years ago. I agree with Don that while the players are "fatter," they are not better.

I found a picture from a google search for "Ricky Brown, Oakland Raiders" on a Raiders Report site. He was in uniform and looked white. Brown is from Cincinnati, and played at Boston College. Years ago, As I wrote a while back, Al Davis used to like white players who had a "street kid"...

Last night on the NFL Network, I saw the replay of the 1975 Dallas-Minnesota Conference Playoff game. The NFL Network is showing "classic games." What was interesting was that it was the actual videotape, rather than an NFL Films product. Johnny Unitas was the analyst. Is this the oldest game...

I recall reading an article about the LA Rams of 30 years ago saying that they were an even 50-50 split white and black, except for kicker Frank Corral, who was Mexican. The NFL tipped majority black on every team during the early 1980's.

A jury has been seated. The jury is made up of 9 women and 3 men. Horror of horrors, it is all white, or at least no blacks. This morning the talking heads were ranting about this. The defense made two Batson challenges, but the judge ruled the challenges were legal. Blacks are officially a...

By the 1960's, the idea that blacks lacked stamina was changed to "nothing hurts them," by football people. I am not sure if coaches and scouts still think that.

After McCain won the GOP South Carolina primary, I read that McCain's voters supported him because he was a "war hero," along with his name recognition. They had no idea of McCain's open borders stance. In one of Samuel Francis' last Chronicles essays, he wrote about this being typical of...

According to one report I saw, Clark County Nevada is 10% black. The first group of jurors was also 10% black, but after the first questioning it is down to 5%. They must have been open about their biases. When the wrongful death suit was being tried after Simpson's acqittal, it was found...

Munson was one of the biggest boosters of Nifong's Great White Witch-Hunt against the Duke LAX players. Regarding Simpson, O.J. is on tape saying, "Don't let nobody out of this room!" This is a big piece of evidenc against him.

In the early 1970's, Oprah Winfrey won the "Miss Black Tennessee" beauty pageant. About the same time, the Nashville CBS affiliate was looking for a black personality. They figured a beauty pageant winner was just the thing. This is how Oprah got her start. Later, while still working for...