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Heart of the Game

04:27 PM ET 08.29

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___________________________________________________________________________I have to imagine that July 23, 2007, was a day that had a similar resonance for a lot of fans of the Colorado Rockies. Though I wouldn't remember the date without looking it up, I can still remember the day. I turned on my TV to see the headline on ESPN's bottom line: "AA Tulsa Drillers 1st-base coach Mike Coolbaugh killed by line drive last night". When I first saw it on the ticker, I remember thinking that it was sad and unfortunate. Then I thought, "Wait a minute! The Drillers? That's the Rockies AA team!" Though…

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Justice Long Overdue

03:30 PM ET 08.26

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Yesterday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame veteran's committee took a monumental step in correcting a couple of mistakes that have been made numerous times over by the Hall of Fame voters. The committee anounced its two nominations for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the 2010 induction. The two names are Dick LeBeau and Floyd Little.Both men are long overdue for Hall of Fame induction. Lebeau's resume as a player and a coach speaks for itself, and I'm not going to say too much about him. I never had the privilege of seeing either player play football other than the occasional…

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Don't Feed the Wildlife

10:43 PM ET 08.09

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I've refrained from talking about steroids in baseball up until this point because, frankly, I really don't know where or how I come down on it. In my opinion, there is no right answer about what to do about steroids and the people that used them, though, admittedly, I find that I am far more lenient with guys that are implicated in connection with PED's than most baseball fans are. It is such a complicated issue to tackle, not nearly so cut-and-dried as many would like to believe, that I can't seem to come up with a definitive answer in my own mind as to what should be done about ballplayers…

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