Opinion & Analysis

Serious topics merit serious action.  And discussion.

Lately, things seem to be getting fired up about the Washington Redskins.  

The debate isn't whether the team has the right pieces in place to make the playoffs (it does).

Nor is it about whether last year's sensation, RG III, will be pushed into action prematurely (I certainly hope not).

The controversy is over the team's name.  Now, this issue erupts every so often.  Now, on the cusp of the season, it has arisen once more.

It would appear that the Steroids Era is back from the grave.  

But absent the fun that came with it.

The Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun seems to be the latest Major League ball player who couldn't resist steroids' siren call.

These days, big-name players are getting hit with big-time penalties.  Braun will sit out a 65-game stint, making him useless to the Brewers for the rest of the season.

The news has been heavy lately. As in fat.
Two items that have recently hit the national conscience involve weighty matters.
The first is that the United States is no longer the fattest nation on earth. Mexico, of all countries, has supplanted us as the country with the greatest percentage of its people falling into the obese category.
Or should I say that Mexico now has the largest percentage of ill people. That's because the second news item tells us that the American Medical Association (AMA) has deemed obesity to be a disease.
More on that later.

Before you know it, Major League Baseball's All-Star Game will be upon us.

This year, the big fête will be held at New York City's Citi Field, home of the Mets.

What this means is, in addition to witnessing the mid-summer classic game, we will be force-fed a bunch of pulp designed to glorify all that is New York.