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How NFL and Fantasy Football Can Enhance Education

A Tool to Improve Math Scores While reviewing emails from a Nigerian prince, perusing Canadian pharmaceutical options and considering how my morning coffee companion in Florida was mugged one hour later in London, I came across a short piece in the Los Angeles Times. According to the piece, Mark Waller, NFL ...
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Deflategate: “Our Long National Nightmare is Over?”

Showdown on the Horizon for Brady and Goodell Tom Brady, quarterback of the New England Patriots, will appeal a four-game suspension for his alleged role in Deflategate at a June 23 hearing presided by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who handed down the suspension. The NFL Players Association had requested Goodell ...
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Dixie: Old Times There Are Best Forgotten

Editor’s Note:  The following blog also was posted in abbreviated form as “Reader View: Clinging to Dixie?  Society will judge” by the Sante Fe New Mexican on July 20, 2015. Original Meaning Has Come And Gone You ask your son before he goes out to wear something other than a ...
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Clinton, Trump Eye the Florida Prize

Editor’s Note: The following story by Jeffrey Rembert was posted by FORWARD Florida on its website under Legislative on August 11, 2016. Late-night comedians have spent the better part of the past decade and a half ribbing the Sunshine State’s electoral mishaps and for good reason.  Even our well-heeled counties ...
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2016: The Election That Never Ends

Editor’s Note: The following story by Jeffrey Rembert was posted by FORWARD Florida on its website under Blog on July 19, 2017. First Meeting of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Just when we thought the plot lines couldn’t get crazier. Just when we swore the name Kris Kobach never would trend on Twitter, we ...
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No One Puts Salsa in the Corner

Editor's Note: I wrote the following a couple of years ago, but before I posted, the furor died. And I lost interest. Then a pandemic struck. And with it came idle time. So I dusted off the piece and considered recently acquired context. A fall trip to Pigeon Forge, TN, ...
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