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I remember in 1966 when the Nashville Interscholastic League first had black high schools in the organization. The famous black high school Pearl, played the well-known Prep school, Montgomery Bell Academy in football. MBA beat Pearl 55-0, as I recall. Twenty-five years later, the Nashville...

I have been told that while a "white" team will beat a "black" team at the high school level, a black team will be better at the "next level." This is what a man who had been a high school referee once said to me. I assume this is the thinking of coaches.

A game with 36 carries for 55 yards is probably a record of sorts. Meaning, the most carries for fewest yards.

In early 1989, it was a big National Story when ex-baseball star Steve Garvey made two women pregnant at the same time. The story was carried everywhere and Garvey was universally condemned. Garvey lost a job, as I recall. At the same time, O.J. Simpson was arrested for assaulting his wife...

The corporate media has been critical of the Miami program for a long time. Around a dozen years ago, SI even called for the Miami program to be canceled for a year. You might say that ripping the Miami team is similar to Bill Clinton criticizing Sista Soljah during the 1992 election year. It...

Lou Dobbs has a special program on CNN tonight at 7 pm ET. It is titled, "The War On The Middle Class."

The long-awaited segment on the Duke Rape Hoax is on CBS 60 minutes tonight at 7 pm ET, or after the football game. It would seem to blow the case out of the water even more than it has been already. Recently, New York Magazine ran a story that was critical of the prosecution case. The...

From what they say on the 60 Minutes site, this will be the biggest blow to the prosecutor's case yet. It is worth noting that the System Media hasn't paid much attention to this affair for the last few months. They seem to have lost their hopes for a conviction. Every reputable legal analyst...

Through a Yahoo search, you can find that Forrest Beaty went on to run track at Cal-Berkely from 1964-66. Perhaps due to his injury, he didn't become an Olympic-caliber sprinter, but was a five-time All-American in the middle distance. Beaty helped the Bears to an NCAA Championship mile...

I was glad to inform Forum members about the Roger McGrath article in the July 2002 Chronicles, which Don put on the Forum. Several of Dr. McGrath's articles can be found on the Web, through a Google search. Type in "Roger D. McGrath." For one of the best, do a Google search for...

Lou Dobbs is on Larry King right now discussing his new book, The War On The Middle Class. It will be repeated at 12:00 am, and 3:00 am ET. Dobbs sounds like a member of this Forum.

I'm making an objective statement. Vince Young probably is not going to ever be much better than he is now. The Titans would have done better by drafting Leinart, who is a very good bet to become a playoff-calibre QB.

I remember the neocon magazine, The American Spectator, even took it upon themselves to run an anti-Heath Shuler article.

Former Tennessee QB Heath Shuler is running for Congress in North Carolina's 11th District as a Democrat. Shuler says he is pro-life, pro-gun, pro-tax cut, and against amnesty for illegals. In short Shuler seems to be a conservative democrat who can fit a socially connservative, economically...

Bears CB Ricky Manning Jr. pleaded No Contest to assault last Tuesday for an incident on April 23 at a Denny's near the UCLA campus. "I didn't do what he accused me of," Manning said Wednesday. Manning and two other former UCLA football players were accused of kicking and punching a man...

The article Don is referring to is in the July 2002 issue of Chronicles. The article is not on the Web, but if you contact Chronicles at their web site, you should be able to get a copy through the mail. I have gotten back issues from Chronicles many times.

Recently I picked up the book, Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans To Know And Admire, By R. Cort Kirkwood. Mr. Kirkwood is an award-winning journalist and managing editor of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The ten men profiled are Francis Marion, Eddie Rickenbacker, Vince...

When the O.J. Simpson Trial jury turned out to be 75% black (9 of 12), Johnnie Cochran called it a "diverse" jury. Blacks think "diversity" means "all black," or nearly so.

His opponent is James Webb, former Navy Secretary under Reagan,noted author, and Navy Cross holder. Webb decided to run as a Democrat because of Bush's war policies. His most recent book is a non-fiction work on the Scotch-Irish. Webb is indeed probably more conservative than Allen, who is...

In one of his (many) books on the Dallas Cowboys, Skip Bayless wrote that Emmitt Smith pulled this act. He would lay on the ground, milking the situation for all it was worth, Bayless wrote.

I remember black offensive tackles being described as "more athletic" than offensive tackles "used to be," back in the 1970's. Speaking of Paul Zimmerman, he wrote an article in SI calling New England Guard John Hannah, the best offensive lineman in NFL history. I believe this was in the...

As someone old enough to remember when Mickey Mantle was the top pro athlete, Marino and Montana were never as big on the American sports scene as Mantle was at his peak. Larry Bird wasn't either. Bird often had his physical skills (unfairly) downgraded. Nobody could disparage the athletic gifts...

Several months ago, I posted the fact that Mickey Mantle was the Number 1 pro athlete of his time. This was in the categories of both popularity and performance, especially in the time period of 1956-1964. Mantle was the last white athlete to have this status. Joe Namath was the most famous...

The suspect has been arrested in the Duquesne shooting. A woman who brought the suspect and friends to the party was also arrested.

The suspect in the Duquesne shooting is a 5ft-4in black man, a non-student who was "disruptive" at a party on campus. The suspect was obviusly considerably smaller than the players. As I write, he hasn't been caught yet.