Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria deceived taxpayers, pocketed funds meant for team improvement, traded away high-value players to make a buck. It's time for fans to protest the MLB about it.

What’s the point of a football club? If we look at the motives of its owners, we’d get some strange answers. It could be a millionaire’s pension fund, a property development opportunity, a shot at a capital gain, a millstone, a tax dodge, an ego-trip, a nest-egg, a birthday present, a promotional tool, a political tool — the list is far from exhaustive.

New Orleans, February 3rd, Super Bowl Sunday:

A group of uncontrollable area sports fans, moonlighting as vicious prison abolitionists made a small gesture of sportspersonship. The city government omitted one of its major accomplishments. The gesture was meant to correct this over-site.

The NFL has a long and shameful history in handling tragedy. The league played as planned on the Sunday after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. They were going to play the Sunday after 9/11 until the New York Jets rebelled and Major League Baseball canceled its own schedule forcing the NFL to follow suit. Now we have another example of a sport absent of perspective.

I confess I love watching the Olympics.  I know all the arguments about what they have become and what they represent and all that.  I get it, as the post below will demonstrate.  However, I still like to watch it.  I love swimming, since I was once a swimmer...maybe I should call myself a post swimmer.  Of course, I enjoy also the big events in track and field, basketball,  and all that.  I am doing my best to get into soccer like everyone else in the world outside of the USA has long been.

Anarchist MMA fighter Jeff Monson chalks up another win in St Petersburg, and signs contract with Super Fight League.

Fears are growing among police and security agencies that the London Olympics will be targeted by an alliance of European and British anarchist groups.

In a very few weeks the razzle-dazzle Five Ring Circus will come to town.  Wall-to-wall television coverage and breathless newspaper hype will extol the virtues of the Olympic juggernaut, with paeans to dedicated young athletes in peaceful competition doing their bit to foster world harmony and the wonderful legacy of the Games.

Shahid Khan is a very wealthy man. He owns a $112 million yacht. He is the chairman of Flightstar Aircraft Management. He is the owner of Flex-N-Gate, a $3 billion car bumper manufacturing company with a worldwide presence, which employs over 12,000 people. Khan is also a major figure in east central Illinois. As a graduate of the University of Illinois, he has donated millions of dollars towards research scholarships, the building of an outdoor tennis court and an annex for the College of Applied Health Science. Sports fans may recognize the name as he purchased the Jacksonville Jaguars football team for $760 million in December 2011.

  The organization hasn’t changed its mind on the team name and iconography of the Atlanta Braves, which (along with those of the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins) have vexed American Indians for years. No, what MLB has shut down is a mom-and-pop organization that has been producing shirts with the Braves logo misspelled “Barves.” The made-up word became a Twitter joke when careless (or illiterate) Braves fans habitually mis-typed their team’s name; eventually tagging your tweets #BARVES or #GOBARVES became the ironic way to cheer on the Braves.