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Football: Author voices concern about spinal-cord injuries
Varsity Times InsiderLast month in Time magazine, Buzz Bissinger, the author of Friday Night Lights, wrote a story about spinal injuries to high school football players in Texas. It's worth a read here. -- Eric Sondheimer... -
Update: Writer whose shopping compulsion made husbands everywhere look good in comparison has reportedly checked into rehab
Change of SubjectFollowing on yesterday's item Husbands everywhere offering expressions of thanks to Buzz Bissinger comes news that "Friday Night Lights" author Buzz Bissinger "on Tuesday checked into an undisclosed rehab facility to seek treatment of an addiction to... -
Husbands everywhere offering expressions of thanks to Buzz Bissinger
Change of SubjectBuzz Bissinger -- author of "Friday Night Lights," former Tribune investigative reporter, current contributing editor at Vanity Fair -- has published an astonishing confessional that has husbands everywhere reminding their wives just how comparatively... -
School-closings controversy needs some reality checks
Let's not pretend that when you close schools on the South and West sides, the children affected aren't black. Let's not pretend that's not racist. ... Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, speaking at a protest rally Wednesday As long as we'...
Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Schools, Social Issues, Justice and Rights, Discrimination
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'Outside Shot' by Keith O'Brien is no 'Friday Night Lights'
The story line seems the same. Just change the sport from football to basketball, and the states from Texas to Kentucky. Keith O'Brien's new book, "Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness," is the basketball...
Tags: The Boston Globe, Basketball, Dakotah Incorporated, High School Sports, Kentucky Wildcats
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The L words that define Lance Armstrong
Ten observations on the Lance Armstrong saga, which took on a new dimension once the Big O got involved and apparently got the defrocked 7-time Tour de France winner to tell the truth, or some of it, about his doping: 1. It would be a lot easier to...
Tags: Cycling, International Cycling Union, Lance Armstrong, World Anti-Doping Agency, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
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Oprah makes Lance Armstrong squirm in Part 1 of their interview
Channel Guide MagazineWe're all very used to seeing Lance Armstrong as the picture of confidence, someone firmly believing he was in control and would come out on top — whether he was on his bike or on a bully pulpit denying any wrongdoing throughout his historic career.... -
THE BOOKWORM SEZ: Gift ideas for everyone on your list
Contributing WriterLast January, you loaded up. You loaded up on all the leftover, on-sale, clearance-priced Christmas wrapping paper you could lay your hands on. You bought Hanukkah bags, Santa wrap, gifty things with poinsettias and reindeer and holly, and you put it...Tags: Fiction, Personal Service, Family, Human Interest, Judaism
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Clear eyes, full hearts, cease and desist
Change of SubjectBy Megan Crepeau Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. Did you get a little teary-eyed reading that? Did it make you think of teamwork and honesty and all those good old-fashioned American values? It did for Mitt Romney - he's...... -
Stephen Colbert, Tom Brokaw on ‘Meet the Press’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelNow for something completely different Sunday morning: Stephen Colbert will bring his comical outlook to NBC's “Meet the Press.” The program starts at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. The star of Comedy Central's “Colbert Report” will get... -
Pundit prediction score-sheet
Change of SubjectCulled from pundit prediction lists at New York Magazine and the Washington Post: Guessing Romney: Michael Barone Glenn Beck Dean Chambers, UnskewedPolls.com Jay Cost, Weekly Standard Ben Domenech, The Transom Kevin Eder Ari Fleischer Newt Gingrich... -
I Think, Therefore I Scam
This is a philosophical debate on Lance Armstrong. We'll be getting into Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, David Hume … OK, OK, you probably are wondering why this ninny from the Play-Doh department is trespassing onto Plato's sacred turf? Dude...Tags: The Washington Post, Cycling, Lance Armstrong, Cancer, Philosophy
Feb 9, 2010
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 31, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 15, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jan 15, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 18, 2013
| Zap2It
Dec 24, 2012
|Story| AM News
Oct 12, 2012
| Chicago Tribune
Oct 12, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
Nov 6, 2012
| Chicago Tribune
Aug 29, 2012
|Column| Hartford Courant
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