Kevin Blackistone FanHouse http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com Kevin Blackistone FanHouse http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/media/feedlogo.gif Kevin Blackistone FanHouse http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Suspending Cable Good for Everyone, Including Himhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/06/suspending-cable-good-for-everyone-including-him/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/06/suspending-cable-good-for-everyone-including-him/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/06/suspending-cable-good-for-everyone-including-him/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Tom Cable has been, pun intended, cooling off this week. He shouldn't have been no matter this being his Raiders' bye week on the NFL schedule.

Instead, Cable should've been in New York at a particular building on Park Avenue sweating in the most magnificent office in the joint -- the NFL commissioner's suite. He should've been there explaining to NFL boss Roger Goodell exactly how his assistant Randy Hanson wound up with a broken jaw after a team meeting last August that a district attorney concluded was the result of "some type of physical contact that happened between Mr. Cable and Mr. Hanson when [Hanson] went down." And he should've been explaining how police wound up asking him about a woman who wound up being thrown out of his home last January.

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]]>tom cableTomCableKevin BlackistoneFri, 06 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST Florida Turns Blind Eye to Eye-Gougehttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/02/florida-turns-blind-eye-to-eye-gouge/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/02/florida-turns-blind-eye-to-eye-gouge/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/02/florida-turns-blind-eye-to-eye-gouge/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Among the things the folks at Human Rights Watch keep track of are places on the globe that employ particularly cruel forms of punishment, like, for example, eye gouging. The good news is that for quite some time the list of governments employing such barbarism has been shortening. In fact, it was down to just two, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Monday, however, that list apparently expanded with an announcement from the Florida Gators' football office that suggested it appeared to embrace the barbaric penalty.

What else can be drawn from Gators coach Urban Meyer's disciplining of his linebacker Brandon Spikes for gouging the eyes of Georgia running back Washaun Ealey in the third quarter of last Saturday's game?

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]]>Brandon SpikesKevin BlackistoneMon, 02 Nov 2009 23:59:00 EST Ravens Expose Broncos as Pretendershttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/01/ravens-expose-broncos-as-pretenders/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/01/ravens-expose-broncos-as-pretenders/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/01/ravens-expose-broncos-as-pretenders/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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BALTIMORE -- Bill Parcells is famous for assessing his team and the other guy's with a simple review of wins and losses, and an even simpler summation from that evidence: "You are what you are."

But even Parcells would've been hard-pressed to so easily judge undefeated Denver and .500 Baltimore before they met Sunday at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium. And he certainly couldn't have done so after their contest was complete.

To be sure, the Ravens proved what many of us suspected after they beat down the Broncos 30-7. The Broncos weren't as good as their spotless record through their first six games suggested, and the Ravens were a lot better than their lukewarm 3-3 mark alluded.

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]]>Kevin BlackistoneSun, 01 Nov 2009 19:40:00 EST In NFL, It's Either Shape Up or Fade Outhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/01/in-nfl-its-either-shape-up-or-fade-out/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/01/in-nfl-its-either-shape-up-or-fade-out/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/11/01/in-nfl-its-either-shape-up-or-fade-out/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Larry JohnsonSylvester Stallone has Hollywood all a twitter (the old school use of the word) right now over an action flick he is producing called The Expendables. Reason is, it stars a bunch of guys' guys including Jason Statham, Jet Li, Julia Roberts' brother Eric and Mickey Rourke, who back in the day I thought Bruce Willis was a cheap imitation of. The movie is about a team of mercenaries who go to some South American country to overthrow a dictator.

Silly me. I heard the title and thought it was about NFL players and wondered who was going to play Kansas City running back Larry Johnson (he was still employed by K.C. as I wrote this) or exiled NFL cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones.

After all, other than the food service workers chronicled by investigative writer Eric Schlosser in his best-selling 2002 tome Fast Food Nation, what laborers are more expendable than highly compensated NFL players?
More Coverage: Agent Says Chiefs, L.J. Reach Agreement

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]]>adam joneslarry johnsonroger goodellKevin BlackistoneSun, 01 Nov 2009 01:50:00 EST Sign of the Times: Repressive Redskinshttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/28/sign-of-the-times-repressive-redskins/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/28/sign-of-the-times-repressive-redskins/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/28/sign-of-the-times-repressive-redskins/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Barack Obama and his family probably didn't meet the longtime neighbor of their new crib at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. William "Doubting" Thomas was in the hospital by the time the Obamas moved in Jan. 20. He died three days later from pulmonary disease. He was just 61.

But Thomas lived by day across the street from the White House -- 1601 Pennsylvania Avenue, or Lafayette Square -- under a makeshift shell of umbrellas and tarps. He decorated his digs with signs that read "Wanted: Wisdom and Honesty," "Ban All Nuclear Weapons or Have a Nice Doomsday," and "Live By the Bomb, Die By the Bomb."

Thomas (his real name was William Thomas Hallenback Jr.) was a protester. And the White House, our government -- ever respectful of our First Amendment right to free speech -- allowed Thomas to protest pretty much uninhibited from the moment he first plopped down in Lafayette Square on June 3, 1981, until he was hospitalized for the last time almost 28 years later.
More Coverage: Redskins Ban Signs From FedEx Field

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]]>Kevin BlackistoneWed, 28 Oct 2009 21:15:00 EST A Legacy to Some, Painful Reminders of Loss for Onehttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/24/a-legacy-to-some-painful-reminders-of-lost-love-for-one/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/24/a-legacy-to-some-painful-reminders-of-lost-love-for-one/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/24/a-legacy-to-some-painful-reminders-of-lost-love-for-one/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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LAS VEGAS -- In a curio cabinet in the living room rests a huge red, white and blue ornamental belt adorned with a massive gold buckle from The Ring magazine proclaiming the late Eddie Futch the greatest boxing trainer of the last century. In the bedroom is a bookcase still reserved for his precious books of poetry, some so worn and old they are bound by a staple of Eddie's corner man's box: tape.

In the garage are white cardboard file boxes, each labeled with sticky notes, stacked neatly on plastic shelving all from floor to ceiling filled with the training logs, contracts and correspondence of each prizefighter Eddie made a champion: Arguello, Berbick, Bowe, Norton, Spinks, Holmes and, of course, Frazier.

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]]>eddie futchKevin BlackistoneSat, 24 Oct 2009 14:35:00 EST Video Killed the Officiating Starhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/22/video-killed-the-officiating-star/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/22/video-killed-the-officiating-star/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/22/video-killed-the-officiating-star/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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The best thing that ever happened to sports was television -- unless you officiate sports.

Ask the umpiring team that is handling the American League Championship Series and blew two calls in Game 4 on Tuesday night. Ask the SEC football officials who were suspended on Wednesday. The crew was punished after the conference determined the crew was mistaken on Saturday in flagging an Arkansas player for a late hit on a Florida player. The call allowed Florida to continue its final touchdown drive in a game it won 23-20.

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]]>Kevin BlackistoneThu, 22 Oct 2009 00:30:00 EST Fail to the Redskins: Worst-Run Franchise on the Planethttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/19/ail-to-the-redskins-worst-run-franchise-on-the-planet/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/19/ail-to-the-redskins-worst-run-franchise-on-the-planet/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/19/ail-to-the-redskins-worst-run-franchise-on-the-planet/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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They play in the largest stadium, FedEx Field in Landover, Md., in the richest sports league in the world, the NFL. Just a few years ago, they became the first team in the United States to eclipse the $1 billion mark in value. Each of the last three seasons they've paid out more than $100 million in players' salaries, including in 2007 when they topped the league with a $123 million payroll.

But the most Washington's NFL team has to show for its riches since Daniel Snyder bought it 10 years ago is a 2-3 playoff record. That is if you don't count the unprecedented ignominy it achieved last Sunday in losing 14-6 at home to the Kansas City Chiefs, which left Washington with just a 2-4 record over the first six weeks of this NFL season despite having played a winless team each outing -- believed to be a first such stretch against abject wretchedness in NFL history.

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]]>Kevin BlackistoneMon, 19 Oct 2009 15:23:00 EST A Gift for Ron: Teammates Bound By Football and Lifehttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/16/a-gift-for-ron-teammates-bound-by-football-and-life/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/16/a-gift-for-ron-teammates-bound-by-football-and-life/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/16/a-gift-for-ron-teammates-bound-by-football-and-life/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Everson WallsUntil about three years ago, Everson Walls (right) was best known for what he took away: passes intended for receivers. Since then, he's become more known for what he's given: a kidney. After years of watching his one-time teammate and longtime friend Ron Springs being whittled away by diabetes, and losing hope in the wait for a life-saving kidney transplant, Walls, a former Pro Bowl cornerback, donated his to Springs early in 2007.

In A Gift for Ron, a memoir scheduled for release Nov. 3 from Lyons Press, Walls described to me in detail the moving story of how he shed selfishness as a star athlete to become a selfless organ donor. In doing so, Walls became the first pro athlete to donate an organ to a teammate. With Springs, he co-founded The Ron Springs and Everson Walls Gift for Life Foundation.

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]]>everson wallsron springsKevin BlackistoneFri, 16 Oct 2009 15:14:00 EST NFL Should Punt Rush Limbaugh's Ownership Bidhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/07/nfl-should-punt-rush-limbaughs-ownership-bid/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/07/nfl-should-punt-rush-limbaughs-ownership-bid/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/07/nfl-should-punt-rush-limbaughs-ownership-bid/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Rush LimbaughSix years ago, ESPN's NFL Countdown crew sat silent as a new addition to its show, the bombastic right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh, suggested Eagles black quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated by a sports media concerned about looking politically correct. ESPN pulled the plug on Limbaugh a few days later and the Countdown crew the next weekend apologized for having abdicated its responsibility to address Limbaugh's outrageousness.

On Tuesday, it was reported that Limbaugh was part of St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts' group that wants to buy the city's NFL team, the Rams. I can't sit idly by like the Countdown crew did so regrettably.

The NFL indirectly dismissed Limbaugh before. It shouldn't accept him back unless he wants to buy a ticket. After all, this is a man who said:

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]]>rush limbaughKevin BlackistoneWed, 07 Oct 2009 21:30:00 EST Curt Flood Belongs in the Hall of Famehttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/06/curt-flood-belongs-in-the-hall-of-fame/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/06/curt-flood-belongs-in-the-hall-of-fame/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/06/curt-flood-belongs-in-the-hall-of-fame/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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There was a portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that hung in the living room of his widow, Coretta Scott King. It was painted by Curt Flood. There was a proposal introduced by Rep. John Conyers Jr., the Democrat from Detroit, to remove baseball's controversial antitrust exemption. It was numbered HR 21 after the Cardinals' jersey Curt Flood wore for a dozen of his big league seasons.

So Flood, as I've pointed out before, has been remembered by the widow of a Nobel Peace Prize winner and in legislation proposed on Capitol Hill. He doesn't need the Baseball Hall of Fame to validate his contributions to greater society or the mere game.

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]]>curt floodcurt flood 40th anniversaryKevin BlackistoneTue, 06 Oct 2009 11:54:00 EST Blount Learned His Lesson -- And That's What College Is All Abouthttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/02/blount-learned-his-lesson-and-thats-what-college-is-all-abou/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/02/blount-learned-his-lesson-and-thats-what-college-is-all-abou/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/10/02/blount-learned-his-lesson-and-thats-what-college-is-all-abou/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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In the immediate wake of that ugly scene that ended the kickoff of this college football season in Boise, Idaho, Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount somehow regained his wits and apologized profusely for having punched out Boise State defensive end Byron Hout -- and having to be restrained by authorities -- after Hout taunted him.

Within a day or two, Blount and his coach, Chip Kelly, called Hout and Boise State coach Chris Petersen to apologize again.

And the other day Blount wrote a letter of apology to all concerned that was published in a newspaper and spread all over the Web.

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]]>Kevin BlackistoneFri, 02 Oct 2009 22:31:00 EST Extra Caution for Concussions Neededhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/30/football-must-take-concussions-seriously/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/30/football-must-take-concussions-seriously/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/30/football-must-take-concussions-seriously/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Tim TebowIf the NCAA was the World Boxing Council, and Tim Tebow wasn't a Heisman trophy-winning quarterback but the owner of a world championship belt, there would be no handwringing over Tebow's status for his next scheduled contest. He'd be out. End of story.

That is how seriously boxing now takes the brain injury known as a concussion, which is what No. 1-ranked Florida's quarterback suffered last weekend against Kentucky. A boxer who is knocked out can't fight again for at least two months.

It is, of course, the aim of boxing to discombobulate the opponent before he discombobulates you. By discombobulating, I mean scrambling the brain.

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]]>tim tebowKevin BlackistoneWed, 30 Sep 2009 21:00:00 EST Obama's Olympics Pitch Is Ill-Timedhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/29/obamas-olympics-pitch-is-ill-timed/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/29/obamas-olympics-pitch-is-ill-timed/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/29/obamas-olympics-pitch-is-ill-timed/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin BlackistoneBarack ObamaGen. Stanley A. McChrystal said last week that he needs as many as 40,000 new troops in Afghanistan if that increasingly deadly war -- of which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said further ramping up will face rebellion in the House -- can have a chance of being won.

The Obama administration's first major legislative effort, an attempt to reform and expand health care coverage, is in dire straits as the president's office has been forced to retreat on its desire for a public option for health care and is continuing to fail to get bipartisan support for what is left of its grand plan.

And it is expected that the next monthly unemployment report scheduled to be released at the end of this week will show our national jobless rate risen to a quarter-of-a-century high of 9.8 percent for September.

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]]>barack obamaKevin BlackistoneTue, 29 Sep 2009 00:40:00 EST Virginia Tech Rains on Miami's Paradehttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/26/virginia-tech-rains-on-miamis-parade/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/26/virginia-tech-rains-on-miamis-parade/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/26/virginia-tech-rains-on-miamis-parade/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Jacory HarrisBLACKSBURG, Va. -- Late in the second quarter Saturday at Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium, Miami quarterback Jacory Harris threw a quick strike over the middle just as official's yellow flag darted through the air toward one of Harris' blockers. Harris put his hands on his hips. His chest heaved with a deep breath. His head rocked back.

Harris was having one of those Murphy's Law moments, and for good reason.

He'd already fumbled, which Virginia Tech turned into a touchdown in little time. A teammate on defense, Chavez Grant, lost his footing on the slip 'n' slide disguised as a football field and got beat on a 48-yard touchdown catch by Hokies receiver Jarrett Boykin. Now a holding call was about to derail some desperately needed momentum for Harris and his Hurricanes as they stared at a 21-0 deficit.

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]]>Chavez Grantjacory harrisJarrett BoykinTyrod TaylorKevin BlackistoneSat, 26 Sep 2009 21:29:00 EST Controversy Pays: Flip Out and Cash Inhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/25/controversy-pays-flip-out-and-cash-in/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/25/controversy-pays-flip-out-and-cash-in/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/25/controversy-pays-flip-out-and-cash-in/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Serena WilliamsIf there is one truth about outrageous behavior it is that the only people who really wind up paying for it are companies seeing an opportunity to cash in, like Volkswagen with a screaming Bob Knight or American Express with an apologetic John McEnroe or, fresh off Madison Avenue, a ballistic Serena Williams firing away at Mother Nature.

But why stop at just a few athletes gone wild? There are a lot of other stars of our games whose personalities would do wonders for some other hawkers of products and ideas.

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]]>Serena WilliamsKevin BlackistoneFri, 25 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EST Maybe Crabtree's Not So Crazy After Allhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/22/maybe-crabtrees-not-so-crazy-after-all/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/22/maybe-crabtrees-not-so-crazy-after-all/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/22/maybe-crabtrees-not-so-crazy-after-all/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Michael CrabtreeIt is difficult, if not impossible, to see whatever Michael Crabtree is up to as anything other than idiotic. But I am like Samuel L. Jackson's God-fearing character Jules in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. "I'm tryin'. I'm tryin' real hard." And this is the sliver of light I see:

Crabtree is trying to be to the NFL what Curt Flood was to Major League Baseball. He is daring to be a revolutionary who leads a shackled group to freedom.

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]]>michael crabtreeKevin BlackistoneTue, 22 Sep 2009 23:35:00 EST Weekend's Biggest Fight? Boxing vs. Mixed Martial Artshttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/18/weekends-biggest-fight-boxing-vs-mixed-martial-arts/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/18/weekends-biggest-fight-boxing-vs-mixed-martial-arts/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/18/weekends-biggest-fight-boxing-vs-mixed-martial-arts/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Somewhere during the broadcast Thursday night of the Miami-Georgia Tech football game, a commercial broke across the screen advertising UFC 103, a mixed martial arts fight card featuring somebody named Vitor Belfort against some guy named Rich Franklin. For a pay-per-view price of $44.99, it stated, I could see it all live Saturday night from Dallas starting at 9 PM ET.


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LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: (L-R) Nate Jones, co-trainer for Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr., Juan Manuel Marquez and Bernard Hopkins appear during the official weigh-in for Mayweather and Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Nate Jones;Floyd Mayweather Jr.;Juan Manuel Marquez;Bernard Hopkins
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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: (L-R) Boxing announcer Michael Buffer, Koraun Mayweather, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his advisor Leonard Ellerbe attend the official weigh-in for Mayweather's fight against against Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Michael Buffer;Koraun Mayweather;Floyd Mayweather Jr.;Leonard Ellerbe

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: Boxer Juan Manuel Marquez poses during the official weigh-in for his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Juan Manuel Marquez

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: WWE wrestler Triple H attends the official weigh-in for boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Triple H

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: Radio personality Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo gestures during the official weigh-in for boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Eddie Sotelo

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: WWE wrestler Triple H attends the official weigh-in for boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Triple H

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: Radio personality Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo (L) and boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya entertain the crowd during the official weigh-in for boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Eddie Sotelo;Oscar De La Hoya

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: Actor/comedian D.L. Hughley speaks at the official weigh-in for boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** D.L. Hughley

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: WWE wrestler Triple H attends the official weigh-in for boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Triple H

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: Boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya gestures during the official weigh-in for boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Oscar De La Hoya

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    LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 18: WWE wrestler Triple H (L) and boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya talk during the official weigh-in for boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will fight at the MGM on September 19. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Triple H;Oscar De La Hoya

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Guess what commercial aired next? Undefeated former welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather's returning to the ring against Juan Manuel Marquez. For a pay-per-view price of $49.95, that commercial stated, I could see that card live as well Saturday night. It would be coming from Las Vegas, and starting at 9 PM ET, too.

I'm going to watch the latter. I'd already planned to. Boxing promoters better hope there are a lot more fans like me, too.

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]]>Bob ArumDana WhiteFloyd Mayweather Jr.Juan Manuel MarquezKevin BlackistoneFri, 18 Sep 2009 20:23:00 EST Eunice Shriver's Legacy Lives Onhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/17/eunice-shrivers-legacy-lives-on/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/17/eunice-shrivers-legacy-lives-on/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/17/eunice-shrivers-legacy-lives-on/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin BlackistoneEunice ShriverThe NHL MVP Alexander Ovechkin and some of his teammates and friends were sidled up on one side of the large circular cocktail bar in the National Building Museum. Washington tight end Chris Cooley answered questions from television reporters in a throng of other black-tie attired people not far away. Members of Washington's WNBA franchise, the Mystics, and players with other Washington-area teams hobnobbed as well.

All were at the annual Sneakerball in the nation's capital on Tuesday as a draw to help a local nonprofit called the Greater Washington Sports Alliance raise money for non-profits that help better the city through sports. They include groups like the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center and United for D.C., a literacy organization.

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]]>Kevin BlackistoneThu, 17 Sep 2009 20:09:00 EST Myles Leaves Indelible Brand on NCAAhttp://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/17/myles-leaves-indelible-brand-on-ncaa/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/17/myles-leaves-indelible-brand-on-ncaa/http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2009/09/17/myles-leaves-indelible-brand-on-ncaa/#commentsKevin Blackistoneby Kevin Blackistone

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Myles BrandAs a college coach friend and I were being seated for an early dinner in a mostly empty hotel restaurant overlooking the Detroit River on the eve of the last Final Four, we spied Myles Brand and his wife, Peg. They were sitting alone at a table tucked deeper into the quietude of this large dining room with sweeping windows from which we could all watch the sun set.

And we knew Brand was counting the sunsets then. It had been just a couple of months since he publicly disclosed that he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a cancer that he said had taken away a quarter of the rest of his life.

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]]>Myles BrandKevin BlackistoneThu, 17 Sep 2009 01:21:00 EST