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According to web reports the Dems have already won enough to take the House. The GOP lost 3 seats in Indiana, of all places. Bush, his war, plus the usual Republican scandals did it. George Allen is leading Jim Webb by only 1800 votes with 99.10% counted. It will mean a recount. Webb was a...

Bush's twin strategy of open borders and unpopular war thousands of miles away has brought the GOP to likely defeat, the pundits say. It was the GOP House that stopped amnesty this year. If the Dems win the House, Bush will bring it right back in January. That's why Bush looks happy.

I remember a sportswriter once called Jim Brown an artist.

Most Vietnam veterans in public life have been bad on the National Question, as Vdare calls it. This includes Senators McCain and Hagel, plus FBI Director Mueller (a typical Bush appointee). James Webb is his writings has been a critic of "liberal elitists." He has courted these people as a...

Very often a rookie running back is never better than in his rookie year. HOF examples are Gale Sayers and Hugh McElhenny. A so-called breakaway runner who doesn't show some sparks in his rookie year probably won't do much.

It's really amazing to me that the Democrats are backing James Webb at all. Their party leaders backed Webb over a long-time activist in the Democratic primary last Spring. Liberals can be pragmatic if it would help them take the Senate. Webb can be described as a culturally conservative...

Just what I was saying. What goes on in real life (where we have enough problems) is more important than a novel.

The only books by Webb I have read are Fields Of Fire and the non-fiction book Born Fighting. Passages such as above are not to my taste, but Webb was describing the world he has seen. Born Fighting could have been written by Roger McGrath, who gave it a very favorable review in Chronicles...

Yesterday, I saw where the Rasmussen poll had James Webb ahead of George Allen by 48-46%. When an incumbent falls behind a week before an election, he usually doesn't recover. Allen has pitched his campaign in recent weeks on attacking Webb's past statements critical of women in combat. I an...

Last week, I looked at an election rundown, and it said that Lynn Swann was 20 points behind in the Pennsylvania Governor's race. This is all I know about the race. Last year in another thread, I predicted that Swann wouldn't do as well as you might think because athletes aren't regarded as...

When Dye was coaching Auburn, he was often quoted saying this very thing. He would frequently tell reporters that blacks were much better athletes than whites. I once knew a man who had a friend who played at Auburn when Bo Jackson was there. He told me that, "Dye let Bo get away with...

I think Stanford was the first to drop the Indian name.

Stanford dropped the Indian symbol in 1972 after protests by "Native American Students." The name "Stanford Cardinal" became official in 1981. The source is wikipedia. They were know as the "Stanford Indians" during Plunkett's playing time of 1968-70.

Something else about this issue of the magazine. It had feature articles on Tommy Nobis, Marv Hubbard, Ted Kwalick, plus a big story on Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick. The No.1 draft choice that year, Notre Dame DE Walt Patulski, was on the cover.

I went to my files and found the March 1972 "Pro Quarterback" Magazine. There was a lengthy interview of Jim Plunkett. It mainly dealt with his 1971 rookie season with New England. However there were a few "political" questions. Most all athletes were questioned on their "politics" during the...

As I recall, Jim Plunkett was always thought of as a "white QB." I don't remember Plunkett describing himself as Mexican. The writers would sometimes mention Plunkett's ancestry, but didn't make anything of it. Now, it might be different, but Plunkett was obviously the same sort of man as his...

Some 30 years ago, you would see it written that in 10 years (mid 1980's) more than half of the NFL QB's would be black. For one reason or another, this hasn't happened. This was a big preoccupation with sportswriters in the early 1970's. They would rail about the fact that all NFL QB's were...