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 2011

RealClearSports: Cutler Turns Over a Victory to the 49ers

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- In the future we're destined to have pro football eight days a week. It's unavoidable, like death and taxes. Fumbles, interceptions, holding penalties by the hour.

But right now it's only Sunday, Monday and, had we forgotten, Thursday night, that series now restarted to the delight of NFL Network if not the game's purists.

The San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears each played, and lost, Sunday, and then four days later, they were forced to face each other by the side of San Francisco Bay, two not very good teams offering a lot of not very good football.

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© RealClearSports 2009