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I was very surprised to see the Steelers take Watt with their #1 pick. Tomlin probably wanted Reuben Foster, just like he took Jason Worilds over Sean Lee several years ago. I bet Watt ends up being better than Foster. Anyway, let's hope for the best for Watt. And I hope Chickillo and...

I just saw a few minutes ago that Ryan Braun tested positive for PED use. There's not much out there yet concerning the details, but it will make for interesting times leading up to the season to see if the positive test is upheld, and to watch him serve a 50-game suspension.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pirates' Snyder and wife in Banksville road rage "A Good Samaritan helped subdue a man who police said attacked the wife of injured Pirates catcher Chris Snyder at a Banksville gas station Wednesday afternoon even as the man struggled, bit him and threw a...

I couldn't find a thread devoted to him and I certainly think he deserves one after pitching his second career no-hitter! http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7590

I might as well put up a thread for the Steelers and the upcoming draft. I'm sure Mike Tomlin and Kevin Colbert will do their damndest to have an all-black bunch of new Steelers. SBNation has their latest mock draft up with this for the Steelers: "31. Pittsburgh Steelers: Mike Pouncey...

I watched the West Liberty(West Virginia)men play tonight. I have a particular interest in the team and school for family reasons. West Liberty is 21-0 after an easy win against Ohio Valley University. West Liberty has an all-white active roster of 13 players, while OVU uses only blacks...

I just saw on TV that 1960s Dallas Cowboys QB Don Meredith passed away yesterday at age 72. The Monday Night games of the '70s provided me with a chance to stay up late for the first time and I remember how much my dad liked to watch the MNF crew of the day.

Here's one place to keep track of what goes on in the offseason til Opening Day next April.

ESPN has made a long overdue move and axed the racist Joe Morgan and his sidekick Jon Miller. It should make watching some of the Sunday night games a little easier next season.

Fighting his way to the end of the season with a bum knee, Nick Swisher has put up .289 avg. with 28 HRs and 88 RBIs.

With Peyton Hillis starting in Cleveland, and with some of our other RBs hopefully getting more chances from this year and beyond, here's a separate thread to keep track of how they are doing now, and reference information for the past decade. 2010- ): Peyton Hillis: 1 (2nd overall)...

The man who should be the 2010 NL MVP is batting .325 with 36 HRs, 108 RBIs, and also has 16 steals.

Tulowitzki needs his own thread. He's been amazing of late, with stellar defense and record HR binge. Even though he missed about a month of the season, he's batting .324/27/95.

Jeff Samardzija was recalled the other day by the Cubs and hopefully will be able to pitch better the last month of the season than he did at the beginning. In parts of three seasons, Samardzija has pitched in 50 games with a 2-4 record and a 5.89 ERA. CF members were very disappointed...

I'll get it started. It was nice to see Orel Hershiser added to the ESPN main crew. It sucks to still see Joe Morgan and his butt-kissin' sidekick Jon Miller yuckin' it up, though. I expect to see a continuation of the trend to better defense and more speed overall in the game as we...

I just saw a new commercial for the Navy and all 3 of the people profiled in it are black. I looked for a video link on YouTube, but couldn't find one yet. There was a time when I was proud to have served in the Navy. When I see what it is promoted as now, and in the aftermath of a...

From today's The Wall Street Journal: Black Farmers Settle Suit for $1.25 Billion "A group of black farmers reached a $1.25 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture over a longstanding civil-rights case that had cast a pall over the agency for decades.... It isn't...

Sometimes when I'm reading on CF, I wonder about how many white NFL players are aware of this site. Of course I don't expect them to show up and comment, but I'd like to believe that after several years' existence that CF has become a place that not a few white athletes, including the...

Yippee! The World Series is here...and the silence is deafening from the rest of the CF crowd. I guess there has to be a 2009 World Series thread, though. So here it is and maybe we'll get more responses on CF in the next week than people watching the games outside the NY and Philly metro areas.

Tony Kornheiser has decided to call it quits after 3 years on Monday Night Football-or at least that's the official version so far. Kornheiser also cited a "fear of flying" factoring into his decision. We often see the excuse of "wanting to spend more time with family," but I suspect...

On Yahoo! MLB, writer Gordon Edes in "Can Big Papi end his power outage," has this puke-worthy piece of nonsense neatly tucked away at the end of the article: "Those close to the scene in Houston say that just because the Astros picked up Cecil Cooper's contract extension through the 2010...

With his 3rd PGA Tour victory at Quail Hollow, 26 y/o Sean O'Hair looks poised for bigger and better things in 2009. Let's hope this thread is used a lot in the future to comment on many victories. This Wikipedia entry seems to be accurate for a change...

By my count, there were 61 white men taken in this draft out of 256 picks. It is getting worse as we had 68/252 in 2008, and 65/255 in 2007. I noticed that many CF veterans spent little time on the draft thread. They know from experience that our hopes for a fair deal for white men in the...

Mark "The Bird" Fidrych died in an accident today. I don't remember him well because I was only a little kid, but I remember other family members at the time really enjoying his great rookie year of 1976, in which he went 19-9 and completed 24 of his 29 starts. Any thoughts?

I was watching the Red Sox-Angels game and the announcers mentioned how Jason Bay is climbing up the list of top Canadian HR hitters. Larry Walker is tops with 383 roundtrippers. This made me think of the absurd selection of Jim Rice for HOF induction later this year. As we discussed before...