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Jan.07.2013
Once upon a time a good ol’ boy from West Virginia named John McKay and a good ol’ boy from Alabama named Bear Bryant got together, played a football...
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Jan.08.2013
Four years ago I wrote in Pigskin Warriors that my alma mater USC was the all-time greatest college football program. Not any more. I freely...
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Jan.08.2013
"Dwight Chapin and Jeff Prugh are legends, all-time greats," says Bill Walton, managing to sound like he is endorsing a Cadillac dealership.   "...
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Jan.09.2013
The truth about athlete as role models occurred with the bombshell publication of Jim Bouton’s “Ball Four” in 1970.  The result was a diary of...
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Jan.11.2013
Jerry Maguire should have won the Best Film Academy Award for 1996. Rock’n’roller Cameron Crowe, who wrote Fast Times At Ridgemont High for Rolling...
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Jan.12.2013
"NORTH DALLAS 40" BY PETER GENT (1973)    FILM STARRING NICK NOLTE AND MAC DAVIS (1978)     "SEMI-TOUGH"  BY DAN JENKINS...
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Jan.12.2013
  In a move that has stunned the sports world, President Obama issued a late night decree and mandated a “Touchdown Tax” against the University...
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Jan.13.2013
It is 46 pages long and threatens neither Hemingway, Shakespeare nor Hunter S. Thompson, but for hardcore L.A. sports fans with local pride, this...
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Jan.14.2013
Audio book review               Charles C. Alexander’s Ty Cobb is an illuminating review...
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Jan.15.2013
Dynasty The San Francisco 49ers dynasty lasted from 1981 to 1994, or until 1998, depending upon one’s standards. With all due respect for great teams...
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Jul.28.2009
I'll be talking GUD with host Eric Schwartz on the long-running (26 years!) Lone Star Dead radio show out of Dallas this Friday at 9:30PM EST.  ...
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Mar.30.2009
March 30   CRAZY     I try on crazy, the way I sometimes get out the jump rope, and see if all those muscles still work.  The unemployed, unexploited...
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Apr.13.2009
April 13   WILLING PIECRUST     I lay the crust of my will over the pie plate of God’s will for me.  I must have the willingness to trim off the...
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May.28.2009
May 28   NETWORKS      Testing my sponsor when I’m hurt is like probing for gas with a lit cigar in my mouth.  If I can’t find a way to douse the...
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Jun.27.2009
June 27   RECLAMATION ARTIST    I stand over the refuse can and peer in; I drive slowly past the piles of curbside discards.  I have so much trouble...
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Sep.26.2009
September 26   SCREAMING LETHARGY     The screaming lethargy of being alive after many years of wanting something else, the exhaustion of pulsing,...
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Oct.05.2009
October 5 WHAT IS PAST The past cannot hold me in a loving embrace. I run too often looking for affection and recognition in things long dead and...
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Nov.12.2009
November 12   EIGHT MISTAKES CLOSER    I am eight mistakes closer to perfection.  As long as I fall forward, progress is being made.  I fail...
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Nov.21.2009
November 21   FLORAL TROPHIES    Captured pet plants grow in my window.  Why these specimens are given such regal care I suspect, but can’t explain...
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Nov.29.2009
November 29   ENDLESS PASTA      Having limits in a seemingly limitless universe makes me feel horribly inadequate.  I am a sad little creature in...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.