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Vick A Villain No More

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by Chris Ello on November 13, 2009

Is it still possible to look at Michael Vick without seeing images in our heads of Vick slamming helpless dogs to the ground over and over again until he killed them?

Can we honestly watch Vick on television, dressed in the colors of the Philadelphia Eagles, without imagining what it must have been like for those frightened dogs that he either drowned or tortured to death by electrocution?

Apparently we can. At least that’s the message we’ve sent during Vick’s much-ballyhooed return this season to the National Football League.

Network TV has lined up for interviews, and heavily promoted Vick, hoping to generate higher ratings. Newspapers and web pages have filled their notebooks with Vick propaganda in an effort to increase readership. And we the sports fan have lapped it all up with the enthusiasm of — excuse the reference — a hungry dog at dinner time.

This Sunday, sports’ most notorious figure, will step out into the sunshine at Qualcomm Stadium when the Chargers host Philadelphia. Other than a few PETA types sprinkled throughout the area, will anybody care?

 

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Strasburg: Best Pitch Yet

by Chris Ello on August 18, 2009

The Signiture Pitch, A 100 mph Fastball, Finally Led to A Signiture

His Signature Pitch, The 100 mph Fastball, Finally Led To His Signature

Pariah pa-ri-ah, noun: one that is despised or rejected.

Or put another way, what Stephen Strasburg came close to being. Which is why, of all of the amazing things the SDSU All-American pitcher has done with his right arm over the last two seasons, none was more important than what he did with his right arm late (real late) Monday night.

He picked up a pen…and signed his name. Whew!

How tough could it have been? After all, where he signed his name was on a dotted line at the bottom of a Major League Baseball contract worth (a reported) $15.5 million dollars.

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