Bernie Madoff guessed wrong. His Ponzi scheme would have yielded bucks just as big as the millions he bilked, and he would have been able to hide in plain sight, had he done just one simple thing: corral investors to sponsor college football bowl games...It's true...

2011

Dec

GO WESTERN, YOUNG MAN: MAKING SLOW BUT SURE PROGRESS IN AMC'S 'HELL ON WHEELS' By Gerald Jordan

Westerns got serious when Hollywood started to show just how bedraggled towns were in the era that preceded pavement. Comes now -- far from the sunny, spotless sets on Hollywood back lots -- Hell on Wheels, approaching the midway point of its first-season run...

2011

Sep

THE RACE TO THE FINISH, AND THE FOCUS ON RACE, ON FX'S 'RESCUE ME' By Gerald Jordan

The dance around the delicate subject of interracial marriage played out in full last week when firefighter Bart "Black Shawn" Johnston (Larenz Tate) married into the rowdy Irish Gavin family on FX's Rescue Me. Of course the nuptials really were not surprising, given Shawn's tenacity and his just plain weird attraction to the alcoholic Colleen Gavin (Natalie Distler)...

2011

Jun

AND THE NO. 1 PLAYER IN GOLF IS -- UHH, WAIT, WAIT A SECOND, IT'S -- UMM? By Gerald Jordan

Who is this guy? This isn't a feeble attempt to test your golf I.Q. It's more like a feeble attempt to slide NBC viewers a crib sheet before players tee off Thursday for this year's U.S. Open...Mind you, the broadcasters' descriptive "World's No. 1" and Tiger Woods were coupled for so long that it seemed the gifted one would take that title to his grave...

2011

Mar

'FIRST FOUR' LEADS TO THE FINAL FOUR By Gerald Jordan

Americans just can't help themselves. Every March, our attention seems dominated by the NCAA men's basketball national championship. It's the CBS hype of March Madness, but also the biggest single-elimination sporting event on the planet. Even losing teams in soccer's World Cup get a stroll through the round robin before being shown the door...

2011

Feb

SUPER FOOD, SUPER NASTY By Gerald Jordan

Without pondering this question, answer: What follows Thanksgiving measured by the amount of food Americans consume on one occasion? Christmas? Nah. July 4th picnics? Not even close...

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