Mr. Trump, Putin is NOT Our Friend

      Now Starring as Robin Hood-  Illinois Governor Pat Quinn Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a measure to put a non-binding referendum on the fall ballot asking voters whether millionaires should be taxed at a higher rate. I know we are looking for avenues to put money into the coffers…

      SCORE ZONE Here are the predicted scores for Week 1 in Big Ten football.   Minnesota 31    EIU  13 Rutgers  27     Washington St. 34 MSU 38     Jacksonville State 10 PSU 28   UCF 21 Illinois 40   Youngstown State 24 Indiana 34    N. Iowa 13 Michigan 30   Appalachia State  14 Purdue  38    W. Michigan…

          Ok, just a note for clarification before I start. This blog will be primarily about football for quite awhile. I will rejoin politics as it gets closer to some kind of meaningful election. Today, I will examine the SEC. For awhile they had dominance over the college sport of football…

  Jimmy Wolf 1862-1901 William Van Winkle Wolf was born on May 12, 1862 in Louisville, Kentucky. To his family he was “Willie.” As a teenager a friend dubbed him “Chicken,” and later he was known as “Jimmy” to baseball fans in Louisville. “Willie” was a common diminutive of William in the German-American home of…