RealClearSports: Big Mouths Are Ruining Sports

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN DIEGO -- Remember that kid in fifth grade who ratted to the teacher you had a comic book on your desk tucked under the school work?

He's everywhere now, grown older but not grown up, a blabbermouth who delights in making sports miserable.

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RealClearSports: Belichick and Harbaugh Deserve Our Thanks

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- So here was Jim Harbaugh, who tried to tell us he didn't want to take chances, going for a two-point conversion with his Stanford team far ahead, being linked to Bill Belichick, who as we know took one very large chance.

Harbaugh, the guy who just got an extension to stay at Stanford, and why not, since he proved kids who study are kids who can play, was about to step to the microphone in a bayside sports bar/brewery/dining establishment called Gordon Biersch.

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