You know, instead of boycotting the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the entire USA team could just walk in holding hands.
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Today was the first day of the NFL preseason. Completely meaningless games in August. Making the whole country honorary Cubs fans.
–Lebron James reported for jury duty this morning but was dismissed. Guess the judge didn’t want to risk turning the jury’s decision into a one-hour TV special.
Okay, it’s only preseason, but how lousy did the SF 49ers look tonight on offense? Some fans thought they were watching the SF Giants?
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta comes out in support of medical marijuana: ‘We have been terribly and systematically misled.” If only Thomas Jefferson had grown marijuana along with tobacco. How different our “Bill of Rights” might have been?
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NCAA president Mark Emmert said today that they will stop selling jerseys of college athletes, including those of Johnny Manziel, online: “We’re going to exit that kind of business immediately. I certainly understand how people can see that as hypocritical.” With all due respect Mr. Emmert, even Stevie Wonder could see that as hypocritical.
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August 8 was “World Cat Day.” To which most cats respond “Isn’t EVERY day world cat day?”
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I thought there was a major golf tournament this weekend but all I see in the news is this stuff about Tiger Woods having a bad round.
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Family values alert: A Florida mother and daughter were arrested this week and will both face charges after soliciting “two-for-one” sex deals online. Your move, Arizona.
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Anyone need any more proof on the unreliability of online rating services? Tripadvisor just rated New York as America’s fourth-best pizza town. Behind San Diego, Las Vegas and Boston.
Bus to hell time. Miami resident Derek Medina allegedly shot his wife to death this morning, and then posted a picture of her body on his Facebook page. Previously Medina’s only claim to fame was as the author of the e-book “How I Saved Someone Else’s Life and Marriage through Communication.”
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From Bill Littlejohn, “I hear that while at the University of Florida, Riley Cooper made the Paula Deen’s List-“
Left Coast Sports Babe 