Derek Jeter, SI’s Sportsman of the Year
Over the past few years, I’ve had problems with some of the athletes Sports Illustrated picked (and failed to pick) as its Sportsman of the Year. In particular, I was dumbfounded in 2006 when the magazine gave the award to Dwayne Wade, an excellent basketball player, over Roger Federer, the greatest tennis player in the sport’s history (and a man who has yet to earn the nod—

Farewell, Mike Huckabee …
I like Mike Huckabee. I certainly wouldn’t vote for him, but he seems like a decent human being genuinely interested in doing (what he perceives to be) the righteous thing. Yesterday, however, in a tragic blaze of bullets, his 2012 presidential aspirations likely ended. For those who haven’t heard,

Barrybonds.com
Earlier today I was sitting on the toilet, skimming through my ol’ Barry Bonds biography, Love Me, Hate Me (which, for the record, can literally be had for one cent on Amazon). There was a point in the book when I cited Bonds’ new (at the time) website, www.barrybonds.com. You might remember that, when he

Paul Oberjuerge, I hope you see this
Yesterday I wrote about the apparent suicide of Mike Penner, the longtime Los Angeles Times scribe whose struggles with his transsexual identity almost certainly led to his death. Well, today I received a message from someone who knew Penner well; who praised him as a kind, giving man and spoke of a human

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