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I saw a little of the defendant's testimony on Court TV this morning. His own testimony made him look as guilty as any defendant ever has. On cross-examination, he said that several unarmed victims "deserved to die" because they "disrespected him." Vang made the mistake of giving an interview to...

Bronk, thanks for your comment. I definately remember James making the quote I mentioned in the SI article

It's been a long time, but I remember a SI article about James and Dickerson when they were at SMU in the early 80's. James was quoted as saying something like, "I wanted to prove that a white boy can play running back in the SWC."

I have seen this photo before. It was taken when Dempsey visited Marciano at his training camp before Rocky's title fight with Walcott in September 1952. Marciano KO'd Jersey Joe with one punch in the 13th, as we know. Jack Dempsey was 57 at the time of the photo, Rocky Marciano was 29.

The late PFW analyst Joel Buschbaum used to say that the Pac 10 was the closest college conference to the NFL.

Tre Smith was thrown for several big losses, but still managed to have a respectable game. He just missed breaking a long run on a screen pass. He is on the small side. We'll have to see if he can run up big yardage over a season. In the Georgia Tech game, Auburn fell behind early and the QB had...

I was listening to the Tennessee-UAB game today. Tim Priest, the UT radio analyst, described Burks, "He's not a speed guy. He watches and reads the blocks. Burks will remind old-timers of Ed Podolak." Well, it's been a while since I heard a runner compared to Ed Podolak. Burks fumbled on...

The 1963 fight between then-Cassius Clay and Doug Jones in 1963 is being shown on ESPN Classic tonight (Saturday) at 10 pm ET, and again on Sunday morning at 10 am ET. This was a big fight at the time as the winner would meet Champion Sonny Liston. An interesting point is that Jones was a...

I hope Bronk wins his beer over the question of what famous football school has had four second-place finishers but no Heisman winner. Yes, the ESPN clowns have for years claimed that Jim Brown didn't win the 1956 Heisman because of race. Brown has never made that claim in the two books he has...

Auburn has had two Heisman winners, Pat Sullivan in 1971 and Bo Jackson in 1985. Tennessee has never had a player win the Heisman Trophy. Oddly, the Vols have had four second place finishers. They are Hank Lauricella in 1951, Johnny Majors in 1956, Heath Shuler in 1993, and Peyton Manning in...

I remember when Alstott was a senior at Purdue, I happened to glance at Joel Buschbaum's Draft Preview. It said that Alstott would "bring back the days of Larry Csonka and John Riggins." In other words, Mike Alstott would carry the ball and gain a lot of yards. His career, didn't turn out that...

I remember Paterno being known as a "booster of Eastern football" around 1970. In the late 60's and early 70's, Pitt was way down and Syracuse wasn't doing well. Penn State was the only Eastern team consistently high in the rankings. Pittsburgh went up when Johnny Majors coached there from...

Bronk, thanks for the information. Paterno deliberately misled his readers in his 1989 book, and in his public statements at the time. He has always played the injured party in this affair by claiming he wasn't allowed to play Texas for the National Championship. Incidentally, Penn State was and...

Bronk, I'm in the public library and have a copy of Joe Paterno's 1989 book in front of me. He discusses the 1969 bowl situation on pages 144-45. He never says that Penn State was invited to the Cotton Bowl that year. He complains that Bud Wilkinson (then an ABC announcer) had anointed the...

In 1959, Syracuse top-ranked team went to the Cotton Bowl and beat Texas 23-14 on New Years Day 1960. The year before Syracuse lost to Oklahoma 21-6 in the Orange Bowl. Penn State wasn't invited to the Cotton Bowl in 1969. The Nittany Lions weren't ranked that high most of the season. In...

Many years ago, I was reading about the Colonial wars in Africa during the 19th Century. The writer remarked on the fact that the Tribesmen couldn't stand up to a British Tommy or French Foreign Legionarre wielding rifle and bayonet. In the movie Zulu, there is a scene illustrating this. The...

That game took place in 1969, not 1967.

Steve Sailer is a controversial figure on this Forum. About a decade ago, Sailer wrote a piece in National Review titled, "Great Black Hopes," as I recall. Among other things, Sailer was hoping some black sports figures would run for office as Conservative Republicans. Black men have a "manly...

Yes, Sailer goes overboard on black superiority in sports. Sometimes he goes around in circles. For instance, he writes that white people are smarter with higher IQ's. At other times, he writes that blacks "think faster." How does he reconcile those two positions? Never has, as far as I know.

Most of Sailer's writing favors immigration restriction, or is film criticism. He's very tough on the neocons and the open-border types. Since Tom Brady has been the Super Bowl-winning QB in the two years since that column, Sailer wouldprobably agree that the old-fashioned white QB is most...

There has been a NFL player convicted of murder (Rae Carruth). Another was accused of murder, but given immunity for testimony (Ray Lewis). And the most famous pro football player of the 1970's was found liable for double murder in a civil trial after a bad verdict in a criminal trial (O.J...

I forgot to post this earlier. ESPN Classic is showing Jack Dempsey's Greaterst Hits Vol. 1 at 10:30pm ET. It's repeated at 3:30am early Thursday.

Elway doesn't belong on this list. Paul Hornung wasn't very controversial. I remember when he played. His suspension wasn't disputed bu him or anybody else, and he retained his popularity. On the other hand, the media has always enjoyed publicizing the "flakey, free-spirit," white athlete...

My younger brother is a big Titan fan, went to a couple of games last year. He told me Bennett didn't do well in the preseason game last weekend. He dropped one pass and fumbled after catching another. The Titan fans like Drew Bennett a lot and are hoping for a big year from him.

I recall a Monday Night game against the 49ers in 1999 where Dwight had a long punt return for a TD in the 1st half. Then he had a 65 yard run on a short pass for a TD in the 4th quarter. Dwight shook off a 235 pound LB for that score.