Selig finally gets All-Star Game right -- anger is the perfect midsummer spice
The recipe for the perfect All-Star Game: angry fans, righteous indignation, stirred up by Bud Selig's middle finger. At least that's how Ray Ratto pictures the process for Kansas City's knockout of an experience.

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Truth about Peterson arrest? Prefer to know why he's quoting Churchill
Adrian Peterson's arrest? Maybe not surprising. His saying there's an alternate truth behind reports of the arrest? Definitely not surprising. But even Ray Ratto's caught off-guard by AP's sweet Churchillian tweet.

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Giants' Sanchez a hologram, but some think it's good enough to be an All-Star
Freddy Sanchez hasn't stepped foot on a big-league baseball field since last year. That doesn't matter to Giants fans, who Ray Ratto says are happier to log 2.2 million votes for a hologram than someone that has actually played.

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Playoff system not about fixing anything -- except big schools' wallets
So now we have college football playoffs. But what do we really have? Ray Ratto suggests we didn't fix college football, unless you count the big-conference schools getting richer and laying waste to bowls as repair jobs.

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What's worse? Blaming one (LeBron) or collective agony (England soccer)?
Americans watch sports with narrow vision, so killing LeBron for not winning it all was easy. Ray Ratto notes the difference overseas, where English soccer fans are in the throes of angst over the Euro loss to Italy.

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Sandusky will pay for his crimes, now it's time for Penn State to atone
Jerry Sandusky is going to prison for the rest of his life. That's the simple part. Now comes the challenge. Ray Ratto says Penn State must pay the price for failing to stop a sexual predator when it had the chance.

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Give Spoelstra credit for taking an impossible job and finishing it
Erik Spoelstra can't coach? Ray Ratto says if you still think that, given the job Spoelstra has done since last year's Finals flameout, then you don't know anything about what makes a great coach.