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John Calvin

John Calvin is the pen name of a sports executive who has been actively involved in professional sports for over 20 years.
by | Nov 29, 2016

They say timing in life is everything, so it seems in death as well, as it was sweet coincidence that Colin Kaepernick, the floundering NFL quarterback, found himself on the defensive while defending Fidel Castro in the days preceding the…

by | Nov 22, 2016

If the English language had an equivalent of the endangered species list, it would be growing exponentially. This year, for example, the use of gender identifying pronouns such as he, her, his, and him are strongly being discouraged by the…

by | Nov 15, 2016

If you’re a fan of the National Football League or the National Basketball Association, and you voted for Donald Trump, be aware they consider you deplorable. Who says so? They do. If you’re a player in the aforementioned NFL or…

by | Nov 9, 2016

Pardon the pun, but Harvard University is Crimson in the face with embarrassment over a so-called scandal involving the men’s soccer team. Because of the “scandal,” Harvard has voluntarily forfeited its remaining schedule of men’s soccer games. The accusations, which…

by | Nov 4, 2016

Despite the heart-breaking loss in Game Seven of the World Series, I want to congratulate the Cleveland Indians for their superb play this season! Uh, oh, according to conventional wisdom I’m now a racist for writing that. The 2016 World…

by | Oct 26, 2016

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but bad words will draw a 15-yard penalty in the NFL. Or so says Jacksonville Jaguar wide receiver Marqise Lee, who said he received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for using the N-word during…

by | Oct 17, 2016

Whether or not you believe Donald Trump’s “locker room talk” disqualifies him from the presidency of the United States, I’ll leave up to you. Or as Ted Cruz would put it, “Vote your conscience.” I will point out, however, that…

by | Oct 10, 2016

NFL and network executives are baffled by a mystery that even Inspector Clouseau could solve in five minutes. The case of the vanishing NFL TV ratings. You see, NFL ratings are plummeting faster than Wile E. Coyote stepping off a…

by | Oct 3, 2016

This off-season’s big free agent acquisition of the New York Knicks, Joakim Noah, unintentionally demonstrated once again the fatal flaw with modern liberalism: it doesn’t live in the real world. At question is Noah’s decision to skip a team dinner…

by | Sep 26, 2016

One only needs to read the sports pages these days to see how off kilter the issue of race in America has become. According to a survey released by E-Poll Market Research, the most disliked football player in the NFL…

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