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AP / Gene J. Puskar
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By Mark Heisler — Unfortunately, most people will insist they were the ones insisting this was a witch hunt all along, and believe it.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
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AP / Matt Rourke
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By Mark Heisler — These days you don’t get due process of the law until long after you have gotten due process of us ... and the “us” isn’t our rational side, but our bloodthirsty one, as presented by media.
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AP / Mary Altaffer
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By Mark Heisler — If bad times bring out the best in ordinary people, sports labor brings out the worst in the privileged lives of owners and players.
Posted on Jul 17, 2011
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AP / Chris Carlson
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By Peter Z. Scheer — I was just about to get over this whole Kobe Bryant thing when I hit the sports page and was reminded of his insulting non-apology.
Posted on Apr 14, 2011
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AP / David J. Phillip
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By Mark Heisler — Let’s put it this way: If the NFL was in danger of flying too close to the sun, like Icarus whose wax wings melted, Commissioner Roger Goodell would have the orb repositioned beforehand.
Posted on Apr 5, 2011
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AP / Mike Roemer
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By Mark Heisler — In an age challenged by separating real life from reality programming or the absurdly heightened reality that comes from merely being on TV, no one seems to want to err on the side of compassion.
Posted on Jan 31, 2011
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AP / Charlie Litchfield
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By Mark Heisler — The nation is dividing into ever-more-irreconcilable niches—like fans of competing teams, rather than members of a greater whole with shared purpose.
Posted on Nov 12, 2010
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AP / Seth Wenig
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By Mark Heisler — If 24 percent of respondents ages 14-17 tell an Associated Press-MTV poll they’ve done naked sexting, you can imagine the implications for professional athletes.
Posted on Oct 27, 2010
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AP / Disney / Matt Stroshane
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By Mark Heisler — In the 10 months from September to July, at least two of the four major leagues are playing. In July and August, we’re on our own and the Big Paparazzo does what it does when it has nothing ... guess at something, blow it up, project from it and comment on it.
Posted on Aug 22, 2010
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AP / Frank Franklin II
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By Mark Heisler — The Boss didn’t leave his heirs a baseball team but a financial empire that can never be rivaled, villains you can depend on and a legacy like Sherman’s to Georgia.
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By Mark Heisler — Going bonkers, lionizing winners and dumping on losers is fun, even if the cycle is accelerating to absurdity and beyond with modern 24/7 reportage. That’s today’s price of fame. Privileged as they are, today’s starry-eyed young athletes pursue their dream through a driving shitstorm.
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AP / Julie Jacobson
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By Mark Heisler — Baseball has always proceeded according to the law of the jungle with the Yankees as King Kong, but in the past even they never dominated financially as they do now.
Posted on May 19, 2010
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AP / Gene J. Puskar
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By Mark Heisler — If the conduct of sports stars represents “values,” there never were any. In any case, it’s better to raise your kids yourself.
Posted on Apr 25, 2010
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AP / David J. Phillip
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By Mark Heisler — Tiger Woods is finally getting on with his life, not that Tiger’s life can ever be what it was when he was the unquestioned, untainted, most famous, most admired, richest, greatest athlete of all time. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what he was raised to aspire to.
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AP / Matt Sayles
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By Mark Heisler — The NCAA Tournament is the highest-level single-elimination event in basketball, making it special. Nevertheless, in the Big Dance’s present incarnation, other words come to mind, like bloated, over-commercialized and bland.
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