Archive for August, 2005

Letters

Big Ten should schedule all to play each other I agree with Jim Carty’s criticism of the easy foes included in the U-M football schedule in “U-M Cheats Its Fans With Easy Games,” which appeared in The News on Aug. 25. He recommended that nonconference games be arranged with more challenging teams from other major […]

State

CBS/AP photo Brian Corrigan of New Milford, fourth from left in back row, is one of 15 contestants in the latest entry in the ‘Survivor’ series. He promises to ‘check his ethics at the door and break loose with psychological mind games: lie, cheat, steal and flirt,’ according to his biography on the ‘Survivor’ Web […]

MLS veteran Chung teaches Nolly lesson

Rookie Jay Nolly learned a very valuable lesson in Real Salt Lake’s 1-0 loss against the San Jose Earthquakes Saturday night, just his second start of the year. In reserve league games he might be able to cheat one way or another in anticipating a shot, but against an MLS veteran like Mark Chung, it’s […]

THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE. Steroid scandal making Selig lose sight of game’s other problems

This past week, when Bud Selig summoned his fellow lords all the way to Pasadena for their quarterly soiree, he essentially treated them to a seminar on steroids. The commissioner reaffirmed his frustration at the non-response he’s gotten from the Players Association regarding his proposal for stiffer penalties for steroid cheats, specifically 50-game suspensions for […]

WHO CAN PLAY HARD FOR THIS TEAM?

Would you continue to support a home team whose cheerleader’s favorite yell was this? “We can’t win this game, “The players scheme and cheat.”The coach is a dumb liar, “We will only know defeat.”And if the beer and hotdog sellers stumble through the crowd yelling, “Give up, quit and leave the game. We don’t belong […]

Time for Selig to bring hammer on steroids users

The head of the nail is unobstructed, the hammer gripped in hand. All Bud Selig has to do is pound. The commissioner of Major League Baseball is in position to strengthen penalties against steroid users like never before, with sentiments surrounding cheats bordering on venomous, with the game holding its face in its hands out […]

Selig must seize this opportunity

The head of the nail is unobstructed, the hammer gripped in hand. All Bud Selig has to do is pound. The commissioner of Major League Baseball is in position to strengthen penalties against steroid users like never before, with sentiments surrounding cheats bordering on venomous, with the game holding its face in its hands out […]