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Anyone remember the 1998 book, Pros & Cons, by Jeff Benedict? Benedict's research found that some 20% of NFL players had a criminal record. Also, Bendict wrote that the Minnesota Vikings were the worst behaved and most out of control team in the NFL. Most people mistakenly thoyght the...

I remember seeing Joe Theisman playing on TV for Notre Dame. In his sophomore and junior seasons, his name was pronounced "Thees-man," just as Colonel Callan says.

Gary Cooper was very right-wing in his political beliefs, as was his good friend James Stewart. Speaking again of the film Sergeant York, being from rural Tennessee, I know that the people and culture portrayed in the film really did exist.

I have the October 1961 issue of Sport Magazine. In it, there is an article titled, "Frank Gifford rates The NFL Running Backs. Gifford has two categories, The Power Backs and The Speed Backs. The Power backs are: 1 Jim Brown, 2 John David Crowe, 3 Jim Taylor, 4 Nick Pietrosante, 5 Rick...

If there were six white running backs starting in the NFL, several would begaining a lot of yards. There were quite a few white 1000 yard rushers in the 60's and 70's.

The problem Cooper had in High Noon is that he was ALONE. His deputy, Lloyd Bridges, wouldn't stand with him. John Wayne has three deputies-the drunken Dean Martin, the lame Walter Brennan and the youthful Ricky Nelson-in Rio Bravo. Nelson is shown to be good with a gun as is Martin when sober...

Well, now we know why GWB picked Harriet Miers to be on the Supreme court. She is supposed to have said that "George W. Bush is the most brilliant man I have ever met."

Sailer just posted another rebuttal of J.B. Cash at his site tonight (Sunday).

Tillman had inbibed a lot from the liberal culture and had to fit into the NFL mileu. Also, he seemed to have something of the perpetual adolescence most pro athletes will have to some degree. It's possible that he had some dissatisfaction with "fitting in" with the NFL. He had to know that his...

Pat Tillman joined the army to fight those who perpetrated the 9-11 attacks. He saw that invading Iraq was not intended for that, though Bush and his handlers claimed it was. Several months ago, I saw the ESPN Sportcentury program about Pat Tillman. He had a very hard time getting a college...

I saw one of my favorites, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1943), on TCM last night. I saw it the first time at age 11 in 1961 on the Late Show. When I see it now, what strikes me is how the America of that time is gone.

Thanks for mentioning the two Steve Prefontaine movies, Surfsider. Not many people saw them, though I did.Prefontaine lost his big race in the 1972 Olympics. It doesn't help a sport's movie when the hero loses his biggest test.

The only Track and Field movies I can think of off-hand are Chariots Of Fire and a TV movie on Jessie Owens. The film, Four Minutes, seems to be what members of this Forum would want to see. If it gets high ratings, there might be more of the same in the future.

On Thursday night, ESPN premieres "Four Minutes," about Sir Roger Bannister's record-breaking feat in 1954. It wil be on both ESPN Classic and ESPN2 at 7pm ET. A surprising subject for ESPN, perhaps.

Check out Sailer's site at www.isteve.com. Today (Wednesday the 5th) he answers J.B. Cash.

I remember when Sam Huff played for the NY Giants. Huff was the first MLB to be highly publicized. He made the cover of Time Magazine in 1959, a very big thing in those days. Joe Schmidtwas a HOF MLB for Detroit in the 1950's and 1960's who belongs on any such list.

I taped it the other night, but haven't had time to watch it. My understanding is that Baer basically played himself in the movie. When Max played the heavyweight champion in the 1956 film, The Harder They Fall, he played a character totally unlike himself. The flaw in Cinderella Man is that...

Playing in New York isn't as big an advantage regarding publicity as it used to be, but if Eli Manning makes it big as a QB in New York, it will be interesting to see how big a star he will be. For example, if Eli wins 3 Super Bowl rings as Tom Brady has, would he be the biggestname in the NFL...

The 1933 film, The Prizefighter and the Lady, is on TCM tonight at 9:30 pm. It's major interest is Max Baer stars with Myrna Loy. It came out the year before Baer stopped Primo Carnera for the title.

I was a college freshman in the fall of 1968. Don has it right in his post. The left had control of the "culture" and even though "conservatives" would win most elections in 1968 and afterward, the cultural left has won in the long run. For example, a "conservative" President, GWB, sounds...

If (when) Hillary gets in, Limbaugh and Company would just resume their Clinton-bashing of the 1990's. We would revisit Whitewater and the Arkansas State Troopers. The main issue would be Hillary's sexual preferences. This would keep things off important issues which is how our rulers, and the...

I don't think Kerry wuld have been any better, but there would have been some differences. For one thing, the Beltway Right would have spent all it's time digging up dirt on Kerry in the same way they did with Clinton. The late Samuel Francis felt that the WSJ, American Spectator, Weekly...

Pat Riley played at Kentucky from 1964-65 to 1966-67. There were NO blacks in the SEC at that time. Riley would have played with and against blacks in high school, being from New York. I remember Riley as a 6-3 forward who jumped center. Kentucky's loss to Texas Western in the 1966 NCAA...

This was mentioned in Nicholas Stix's column of 9-7 at mensnewsdaily.com. Stix writes, "For instance back in April on Bob Costas' sports show, football announcer Chris Collinsworth, a white retired Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, stuttered and stammered as he said that he is so nervous about...

When in his mid 70's, Jack Dempsey was jumped by a couple of thugs outside his restaurant. He hit them with body punches, knocking them to the ground. This has been told several times, including the ESPN Sportcentury Dempsey bio.