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Sports columnist for @IndyStarSports . ❤️my 🐶Cap. Retired professional dog-walker. Furthermore: #ColumnComing

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6 years
We were new in town. When my dad realized the little league where I was playing baseball - where he was coaching - was segregated, he decided two things: "I'll finish this season. And then I'll destroy them." And he did.
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2 years
Tennessee LT Jeremiah Crawford projectile vomits in Alabama’s direction, then nods his head like: What.
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Spent a lot of time with @theTylerTrent these last few months, and really loved that young man. Knew I’d have to write this one day. So terribly sad that day is here. A tribute, to Tyler:
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Purdue coach Matt Painter with a bomb here at his NCAA title game news conference: “Name, image, and likeness wasn’t put into place so the schools with the most money could get the best players. But if you want to be honest, that was happening before.” 🤯
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My man Tyler Trent changed the world. Rest in peace @theTylerTrent . Not one I ever wanted to write, but I have one more Tyler story in me. It’s a column. And it’s coming.
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Pence used the Colts, who went out of their way to accommodate the VP - with no idea this political stunt was coming
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I've been busy with Purdue, so I don't know but ... is UConn coach Dan Hurley always like this with the officials? Not just complaining, but pleading and gesturing and stomping and pouting and running onto the court and looking on the verge of tears at times. This what he does?
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Tony Dungy is ignorant. Millions are just like him, because they simply don't want to know how the world really is. As a father of two, as a man who knows my way around the LGBTQ community and a suicide ward, I have zero tolerance for this bigotry:
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6 years
Well done, Tennessee fans. Next move: fire the idiots who thought hiring Schiano was a good idea in the first place. Utter incompetence there.
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5 years
Colts QB Andrew Luck retired because football, once his refuge, had become his dark place. No paywall here. Open to anyone who wants to read about the most shocking retirement in NFL history. Jim Brown is now No. 2.
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Today in my uniquely oafish way, while welcoming @CaitlinClark22 to Indy, I formed my hands into her signature 🫶. My comment afterward was clumsy and awkward. I sincerely apologize. Please know my heart (literally and figuratively) was well-intentioned. I will do better.
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Jim Harbaugh's program was caught cheating *twice* to get this Michigan team into tonight's #NationalChampionship against Washington. That's not part of the Michigan story. That is the Michigan story.
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3 years
IU AD Scott Dolson indicates one rich booster paid the $10 million to buy out Archie Miller, and another booster paid to help hire the next coach. Two boosters, total.
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6 years
Ross-Ade right now.
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1 year
Do yourself a favor, if you don’t know much about U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl, and search his name here. See the response to his death yesterday at the World Cup in Qatar, at 48. It is overwhelming. His death is overwhelming. His life was overwhelming. A thread on that: 1/
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2 years
Don't say Biggie Swanigan grew up "poor." Poor would’ve been better. He was penniless, homeless, living under a bridge in Utah. None of his siblings graduated high school. Three faced criminal charges. Biggie overcame so much, but couldn't overcome it all:
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1 year
I write about anti-vaxxers lying about Damar Hamlin and Bert Smith, and lose scores of followers. Write about Tony Dungy mocking LGBTQ youth, and same thing happens. What's wrong with you people? Do you just not want to know the truth?
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3 years
IU is hiring former Butler and Ohio State coach Thad Matta as associate AD for men's basketball administration. Matta will assist an IU staff that will be led by new coach Mike Woodson.
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5 years
Spent a lot of time with @theTylerTrent during his final months, and dreaded having to write this story. A tribute to a young man who prayed that his cancer fight would make a difference. And saw his prayer answered.
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4 months
Am I in the minority of people who WANT to see Taylor Swift's reaction to a big Travis Kelce play? I only see highlights on ESPN, so I see it just a few times per game. But I enjoy that. Happiness is good. Glee is fun. Not sorry for wanting to see someone feeling it.
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4 years
Pay for my work, don’t pay for it, it’s your choice. But don’t come to my Facebook page and try to make me feel bad that what I do isn’t always free.
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6 years
Tennessee and its fans are getting an unfair wrap. That media-schmoozing fake Currie - he tried once with me - caused this mess. Fans fixed it. Now with Currie gone, the school has a chance to end this thing well.
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6 years
Source tells me Jeff Brohm accepted the jobs today at Tennessee, Arkansas and the US men’s national soccer team. Plans to coach all three next season and also teach media ethics at whatever school produced some of these boobs in the Volunteer state.
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5 years
Picture says 1,000 words about both programs, Purdue and Virginia, all of them good.
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Sportsmanship. 🚂
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Why, Diana Taurasi? Why can't some of women's basketball's biggest names enjoy and hell I don’t know, maybe even appreciate what Iowa star Caitlin Clark is doing for their game?
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5 years
Wasn’t easy - he knew the procedure would hurt terribly, and did it anyway - but @theTylerTrent donated his tumor for research. Wants to change the world, and who knows? He might just do it. @DanaBenbow wrote this:
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3 years
UC football not fooling around. Already has Big 12 logo on its flag.
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Gene Keady giving us the thumbs up!!!!!
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5 years
Ex-Pacer Al Harrington’s journey to $1 billion marijuana mogul started with a single step: Giving his grandma some pot so she could read her Bible. Oh, this is a true story.
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3 years
I think Dabo Swinney is one of the best two coaches in college football. And if my son were a five-star recruit, Dabo Swinney is the last coach I’d want coaching him.
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Dabo Swinney said Florida State used a Clemson player's positive test for COVID-19 as 'an excuse to cancel' Saturday's game.
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Zach Edey on Matt Painter: “Paint’s the one who gave me a chance. I’ve been trying for four years to pay him back.”
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4 years
Great editors saving me, bosses guiding me and colleagues giving me first crack at stories on their beat. Those are facts.
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IndyStar
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IndyStar's Gregg Doyel named country's top sports columnist in APSE classification
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7 years
This is the Tom Crean story I can write, now that he's not the coach at Indiana
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1 month
I'm getting text messages from competing coaches, THRILLED, for Purdue and Matt Painter. I promise you, this is the most popular result of this season - Matt Painter to Final Four - in the national coaching community.
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1 month
A pen just came flying from the UConn bench out to halfcourt. Purdue's Braden Smith saw it, picked it up, gave the proof to a game official and shouted: "From the bench!" The official returned the pen to the UConn bench with a warning.
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1 month
A thousand words Here’s two: Keady. Painter.
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5 years
Eric Ebron, four years with Lions: 11 TD Ebron, 11 games with Colts: 11 TD
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5 years
This is how ⁦ @notthefakeSVP ⁩ paid his respects last night to ⁦ @theTylerTrent ⁩. His final words ... his emotion .... we hear you, Scott.
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4 years
Colts killing it in this draft. WR Michael Pittman Jr., and now RB Jonathan Taylor? Are you kidding me??!?!?!??!? Boom boom.
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1 month
Ethan Morton started 29 games last season. Gets in game vs. Gonzaga only because Purdue has two fouls to give before halftime. He gives them, comes back to bench smiling and laughing and high-fiving teammates. This is the unselfish culture I talked about here. Purdue not normal.
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Five redshirts, only one player from the transfer portal, another dominant college basketball team? What Matt Painter is doing at Purdue isn't normal.
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5 years
People ask: Why do I like Andrew Luck SO much? Well, it has nothing to do with football. It’s what he’s done for my friends at their lowest moments. It’s what he did for Colton and Noah.
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4 years
After leukemia survivor Andrew Jones hit the free throws that lifted Texas past Purdue, Jones spoke reverently about another kid who stared down cancer, a kid who did it right here at Purdue. Jones spoke with me about Tyler Trent.
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6 years
That’s the football field in Buffalo. And this picture is not doing it justice. I literally can’t see the full field. Snowing too hard.
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6 years
Page 3C, IndyStar. #chuckstrong
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2 years
This is the story I never wanted to write, because once upon a time I saw the best in Dan Dakich. I don't see it anymore. Instead I see — we all see — a mean-spirited bully disintegrating one tweet, one rant, one controversy at a time:
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6 years
Former Avon runner Ben Harmon has died of cancer. His mom Marcia just texted me and said Ben "passed peacefully. We were all with him holding his hand and talking to him." I wrote this three weeks ago. A tribute I wanted Ben to read before it was too late:
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6 years
So you’re saying there’s a chance ...
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7 years
@derekahunter hey I think you've been hacked by someone stupid.
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6 years
Man of the hour is here at Ross-Ade for Purdue vs Ohio State: The unbeatable ⁦ @theTylerTrent ⁩ in the unbelievable Purdue blazer. #CancerSucks
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7 years
Purdue running an SEC football team out of its own stadium. I think the Boilers hired a pretty good coach.
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6 years
Oklahoma but no Notre Dame is dumber than this selection show format. And this show is moronic.
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I saw two or three things that I’ve not seen written anywhere else. I was sitting front press row, straddling half court. Great seat, and I saw what I saw. Unbelievable class from Matt Painter … and just ridiculousness from Dan Hurley. Ball don’t lie.
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#Purdue and Matt Painter showed the nation its class. While Dan Hurley was really just kind of an ass. @GreggDoyelStar on @BoilerBall 's memorable March run and the impression it left on the nation:
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Getting notes from parents of LGBTQ children who have tried suicide. Got a note from one whose child succeeded. It's because of bullying words like what Tony Dungy tweeted. Am I intolerant of his beliefs? Yeah. Because his beliefs are hateful, and hurtful. Guilty, your honor.
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Tony Dungy is ignorant. Millions are just like him, because they simply don't want to know how the world really is. As a father of two, as a man who knows my way around the LGBTQ community and a suicide ward, I have zero tolerance for this bigotry:
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Headed to Houston for Colts. Starbucks at a layover in Atlanta. Decided to try to ⁦ @theTylerTrent ⁩’s favorite flavor. They asked me for a name.
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4 years
My dear friend Tyler Trent. It’s been one year since cancer won the battle, but here’s the thing: That amazing young man might just win the war - for everybody. An incredible update to his story, and it’s a free read for everyone. Too important not to be:
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4 years
I don’t need the cameras on Josh Allen like this was his fault. Put cameras on the two Bills who blew the sack. Or the two blown blocks on previous Buffalo drive. Or the penalty on the blindside block. Leave Josh Allen alone.
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7 years
15-20 49ers knelt. 0 Colts.
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I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem.
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No accountability with Patriots. Destroy that phone, Tom Brady. Work to prevent the release of that video tape, Bob Kraft. Walk away from questions after being the one who thought it was OK to sign Antonio Brown, Bill Belichick.
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Belichick walks off, not willing to delve more into the Antonio Brown story than he did in his opening remarks #Patriots
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Louisville's David Padgett on Purdue in Mackey Arena: "I’ll be surprised if anybody beats this team in this building. It’s one of the toughest environments I’ve ever seen."
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6 years
Big Ten Tourney in NYC is a joke. Why, because of Rutgers? Please. That’s a joke too. Rutgers, in the Big Ten. Send ‘em back.
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6 years
Wait, Josh McDaniels is a horrible human being? No way.
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9 years
Peyton Manning outside locker room. His tiny son in a tiny Broncos 18 jersey comes running. Bawling. Peyton on a knee. Hugging.
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Zach and Julia Edey. Crowd LOVING it
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Gene Keady desperately wants Matt Painter to lead Purdue to the Final Four that Keady never could. I spoke with both, and many more, for a glimpse inside their close relationship.
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Purdue redeemed itself. Didn't win the title, but redemption anyway after sitting in it for a year #columncoming
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Gregg Doyel
6 years
Evil Larry Nassar is about to be sentenced, but don’t be distracted from this truth: Michigan State could have stopped him 20 years ago. And again and again since. In so many ways, this story is worse than Penn State and Jerry Sandusky.
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This is actually the Colts' diabolical way to get even with Tom Brady: Let Drew Brees throw so many TD's, he'll put the NFL career record out of reach.
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Zach Edey just won AP Player of the Year for second straight year. Entire Purdue team and staff here to share the moment.
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3 years
Carson Wentz out here at Colts camp. No boot on foot. No limp I can detect.
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Saw this police officer working Colts camp. Asked him his story. So glad I did. Column - http://t.co/apPnm5hoeb http://t.co/Hjn5RpToCY
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The amazing @theTylerTrent has been named a winner of ESPN’s Stuart Scott ENSPIRE Award, and will be honored posthumously in July at Sports Humanitarian of the Year Awards in Los Angeles. That kid. Loved him. This is who he was. Who he forever will be:
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LeBron's letter to Emanuel. Don't ever say LeBron is no hero. Not to me. LeBron saw this:
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ESPN’s Mel Kiper just said the Colts had the best draft in the NFL, so good that it will propel them into the 2019 season’s Super Bowl.
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It's a Sagamore of the Wabash award for cancer-fighting marvel @theTylerTrent of Purdue, and Carmel. For those outside the state, understand: The Sagamore is our state's highest civilian honor. The Governor gives it out, and not lightly. by @Clarky_Tweets
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6 years
Hey, @realDonaldTrump , keep Edwin Jackson's name of out of your mouth.
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5 years
We just saw the best commercial. And the Super Bowl MVP: Owen.
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6 years
Purdue. Terrifying.
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Colts beat the 2020 Super Bowl champions on the champ’s home field.
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4 years
Good update on Zach Price, the Ryan Blaney crew member injured Sunday at the Brickyard 400. He has a leg fracture but won’t need surgery, and could return this season! My story about the emotional incident is below. Pic has Zach update from his wife Tasha:
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Purdue dominates the series “But banners” Purdue goes to NCAA’s every year “Banners” Purdue doesn’t have to keep looking for a new coach “Banners” Purdue is No. 1 in the country three years in a row “Banners” Purdue basketba— “Banners” Make it stop. Tonight.
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A national championship banner would be the Boilers' breakthrough, the end once and for all to the stupid idea that Purdue is the No. 2 basketball program in this state.
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Purdue is playing a crap Minnesota team, and locked into the No. 3 seed at B1G tourney, and Mackey Arena is standing-room-only more than 20 minutes before tip-off. This is how you send off your seniors.
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Jeff Brohm is staying at Purdue. #columncoming .
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Painter to crowd: "We've got to get rid of 'IU sucks.' They didn't suck today. They beat Michigan State." Crowd cheers.
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There’s a freshman scoring 30 ppg. There’s a coach who just turned 83. There’s a team that was literally the worst in the state, and now is 8-1. And there’s a shrinking town coming back to life. Only in high school basketball. And only in Indiana.
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Colts RB Jonathan Taylor. Colts QB Gardner Minshew. Just saw this clip on ESPN. You see what I see?
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Gregg Doyel
1 year
Anti-vax leaders are liars. Their videos are lies. Their “facts” are false. I prove it here in my story about Damar Hamlin and Bert Smith, the NCAA official who fainted. They lied about Bert, and I caught them red-handed. Why can’t some people understand?
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Pretty damn impressive that Mackey Arena is sold out for this Purdue-IU women’s basketball game. Pretty damn impressive that one of those fans is Matt Painter. Not sure how many coaches in his exact shoes today would be there. Biggest crowd of year in Big Ten.
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Your politics are yours, and have at ‘em. But my dad is my dad. And this is a big day for him and I’m proud to be his son.
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Bob Doyel
6 years
I'm excited to announce that today I was endorsed by @BarackObama . With your continued help we will turn Senate Dist 22 blue for the first time this century. @TheDLCC @FlaDems @FloridaEA @FLAFLCIO @Paula_Dockery @BillyTownsendEd @AlexSinkFlorida @AndrewGillum
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The Big Ten screwed IU football today. I'm not saying Ohio State doesn't belong in the B1G championship game. I'm saying: IU was screwed by its own conference ... for the second time this week:
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Why have I been all over Wentz for being unvaccinated? This is why. Because he's got the No. 1 leadership position in sports, and not leading at all. Not the team, not the community, nobody. What I wrote:
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Gregg Doyel
3 years
Good lord three more Colts on the COVID list. Including, you guessed it, Carson Wentz. News story from @JoelAErickson :
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