I love this time of summer. NFL Training camps are open and the season is in sight. I hear about the guys who are “football players,” which really inspires me. A football player overcomes obstacles each and every day out there on the field. We can learn from them. Fortunately, during the first week of […]
Mike Doser
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Are sports dying?
Alarmist TV news anchors constantly sucker me into watching newscasts with their ridiculous, five-second primetime teasers: “Can pineapples kill cancer? Watch at 11.” But they work, so I figured I’d use the technique too. Sports have pandered to television since the ’50s. TV has made every major pro sport and the NCAA unbelievably wealthy. Prior […]
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Desperate, but serious
Dear Mr. Glazer: I just read in Britain’s Daily Mirror that you recently called the Palm Beach, Florida, police department in hysteria. There was a helicopter hovering over your $12-million beachfront mansion and you feared a sniper might be trying to kill you. Evidently, you’ve been concerned about this possibility ever since you took a […]
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Under pressure
Arnold Palmer made an impassioned plea at last week’s Press-Radio Club Day of Champions dinner. The legendary golfer urged parents not to push their kids into pro sports careers too early. It’s seems ridiculous that such advice even needs to be given. Most kids have practically no shot at becoming pro athletes. But parental hubris […]
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Twins could teach us
I covered the Bills for nearly five years and never had a one-on-one interview with General Manager Tom Donahoe or former GM John Butler. I recall just one time when Donahoe approached me. During training camp, he walked over to tell me to move so Rob Johnson could see the play clock. The other day […]
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Bankrolling the Rhinos
The Rhinos have entertained Rochester for nearly 10 years. I’d say the actual on-field product is like a Mercedes-Benz. But at the end of the day, I have visions of management parking the Benz outside a broken-down mobile home, not inside the heated garage of an Ambassador Drive mansion. I just don’t think the team […]
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The big charade
I was listening to Syracuse’s post-game press conference after Vermont shocked the Orange last Friday in the NCAAs. One player talked about how he wasn’t too disappointed because he and his teammates will now have more time to prepare for their midterms. Alright, that never happened. But they are student athletes. And they’re supposed to […]
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Bracketology: Take this job and shove it
You can do it on the Internet; in your office; in the high school halls; in the shopping malls; have you filled out your bracket yet? It seems like everybody — including people who think the NCAA was one of Roosevelt’s alphabet agencies — fills out a men’s basketball bracket. You can win a million […]
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How you play the game
J.P. Losman was making me nervous before he spoke last week at St. John Fisher College’s 5th Annual Conference on Sportsmanship. The 23-year-old Bills quarterback gave the keynote address before 246 athletes from 27 mostly Monroe County high schools. He seemed uptight, as quarterbacks coach Sam Wyche warmed up the audience for him. Losman’s hands […]
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Life on the sidelines
George Beahon wrote more than 5,200 sports columns during nearly a 50-year career for Rochester’s Gannett papers. Author Curt Gerling, in his 1957 book Smugtown, U.S.A., called Beahon “the poor man’s Red Smith.” Smith worked for the New York Herald Tribune and later the New York Times. Many people — even the 84-year-old Beahon — […]
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What’s in a name?
The Bills’ first order of business during the new J.P. Losman era is to change the second-year quarterback’s last name to “Winman.” Losman is pronounced LOSS-man, and that makes me uneasy. Hopefully, his name doesn’t reflect his on-field performance. My concern, unfortunately, has merit. I can think of three pro athletes whose real names sparked […]
