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I heard a rumor that some sensitive folks on the religious right are concerned about the possibility of the GOP 2016 convention being held in my beloved hometown, that den of iniquity known as Las Vegas. I have to admit, I’m puzzled. Sure, there’s sin in Vegas, but last time I checked, there was sin in Dallas, Cleveland and even (gasp) River City. Believe it or not, there are hundreds of churches and hundreds of thousands of Christians in Vegas. We can and DO live the same lives people live anywhere. We work, go to school and church, take...

Heard on radio tonight (WSB-Atlanta) Selig is serious. WIll investigate Bonds and others. May name former Senator George Mitchell to head investigation Announcement shortly

Somewhere in his considerable baseball education, for all he sought to adapt and evoke the old Dodger Way, during and after his years in that august organization, Mike Scioscia must have learned his most important baseball lesson from Sparky Anderson. “We try every way we can do to kill this game,” said Anderson, the unchallenged virtuoso of the baseball double negative, “but for some reason nothing nobody does never hurts it.” Those words were never made truer than by the way Scioscia managed the All-Star Game while Dusty Baker proved, in the same game, why Scioscia last fall won a...