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The whole "on average" argument falls apart when one examines the numbers. Blacks make up only about 12% of the population. Giving the benefit of the doubt to that argument can't account for the lack of white running backs, cornerbacks etc...at the professional and collegiate level. Brooks...

Wow! I guess I missed the memo that the athletic superiority of blacks has "been proven". If someone could forward a copy of it to me I'll see if I can get it to some others that probably didn't get a copy: Jeremy Wariner, Stefan Holm (you know, the 5' 11" Swede that is almost unbeatable in...

10.35 is a decent time. It was really windy and only got into the mid 50's. If Stamer can become more relaxed in the second half of the race I think he could be very good.

Quite agree bigunreal! The "best available athlete" (notice that the acronym for aforementioned theory spells baa, the sound that sheep make) is nonsense as you say. The draft is to find "players" , fill needs and shore up weaknesses. Millen and Tice seem to be in some sort of an unspoken...

Hansbrough is a monster. In the 5A state championship here in Missouri his Poplar Bluff team beat Vashon of St. Louis which at the time was rated No.1 in the country by USA Today. Vashon had a host of big men that were just helpless against him. His brother will be a senior next year. He is...

My favorite Leon Lett play was his attempt to "recover" a missed field goal attempt by the Dolphins. I believe it was a Thnaksgiving game. Miami got another shot at it and won.

Regarding Farve I say ditto to Bart and bigunreal. Does John Madden nauseate any of you fellows the way he does me? He's a slovenly,huffing and puffing windbag full of fatuous comments that almost always toe the line. "the ground can't cause a fumble, the ground can't cause a fumble" ugh....

Welcome Highwayman. I agree with your assessments of Bennet and Levens. Those were two guys whose effort could not be faulted. But you know that all else being the same if they were white they would never have been given a sniff of the football. Don, I can't think of a worse pair of...

Considering that McNair's lifetime completion percentage is 59.3 and his lifetime QB rating is 83.4 wouldn't it be stupid to compare Volek''s stats to his? Or would it? Volek's completion percentage is 61% and his QB rating is 88.8 These numbers would call into question the notion that McNair...

Remember Andy Johnson of the Patriots? Not only a white running back but a converted college quarterback! Might he have been the last white to ever have such a designation?

Michael Larrabee won the 400 at the '64 Olympics at the age of 30. He had run collegiately at USC. In '76 the runner-up to Edwin Moses for the silver medal was Mike Shine. I'm not completely sure but I think he was from Penn State. Bill Toomey, the winner of the '68 decathlon, holds the...

Quite agree JD. One of the more pleasurable NCAA b-ball watching experiences for me was seeing Princeton knock off defending champ UCLA several years ago. Raw athleticism is always compelling yet so is seeing athletes and teams excel by getting the most out of what they have.

Emmiyan was a terrific jumper. He is Armenian and won the '86 Euros and was second to Lewis at the '87 Worlds.

Charles Barkely was on the Wilbon/Kornheiser show today and, in addition to saying that he thought Bogut was the best player in college by far, the only other player he mentioned was Coppenrath. He was really high on him. Tony Koirnheiser is the poster by for the caste system. He is revolting.

The psychology of running sub-10 is very important. I would analogize it to the way a sub 4 minute mile was regarded a half century ago. Gunder Hagg ran 4:01.4in 1945 and people thought it might last forever. It was 9 years until Bannister's breakthrough in 1954 yet by 1958 Herb Elliott had...

Stamer got 2nd in the 60 at 6.62 behind Blanton's 6.58. This really bodes well for the outdoor season.

My favorite hard-hitting white safety tandem would be Fencik and Plank of the Bears. I'm not certain but I think the Bears were the last team to start 4 white DB's.

The Irishman David Gillick winning the 400 was quite a surprise. His background is Gaelic football. Isinbayeva is the new Bubka and she's only 22. The new T&F News has a good couple of pages on her.

I saw Whitlock's column. Though not a subscriber to his paper I've read his columns occasionally and was quite surprised by the wrong-headedness of this one. Bonds is a creepy prima donna and even in this era of sycophantic sportswriters toadying up to their black demi-gods his repugnant...

I just saw blurb that ESPN was reporting that Baron Davis had been traded. Looks like Dickau might be not be losing so much playing time after all.

Not that I think he's the greatest athlete ever but as far as success in the context of American sports, how about Danny Ainge? A high school all-american in basketball, baseball and football. Three years of "Major" league baseball while an All-american basketballer and then 14 years in the...

Ed Podolak had a nice career with the Chiefs(69-77). Had 4451 rushing yds. and 2456 receiving yds.

Nebraska used to be a program that wasn't afraid to let whites compete for time at "skill" positions. I think that is in part why they had such a successful walk-on program because even the walk-ons felt they would get a real chance. Maybe Iowa is filling that void now. What kind of a walk-on...