I am politically to the left of all your writers. Unlike them, I would not work for a subsidiary of Verizon. My credentials established, I am tired of their heavy focus on social issues. To paraphrase Brett Favre (ahem), this is the sports section. Social issues are not why the majority of your readers come to the sports section, as I'm sure you know. I assume you think that taking this tack differentiates you from other sports sites, and it does. I wish you would do it less, or not stretch as hard as, say, Wetzel did with Britt Reid to turn something obvious that's being handled by the book into something more. If you insist on sticking with this angle, though, I suggest tar-and-feathering at least a few targets that aren't all white-establishment types. One suggestion: Carlton Davis of the Bucs calling Asians "gooks." He tried to slide out of it, but I'd imagine one of your vigilantes could fairly easily call him on his racism. I think it would go some way to making the majority of your readers (who are apparently both reactionary and deranged) have not quite so easy a time branding your opinion writers as knee-jerk libs.

Best of luck regardless.

Shalise Manza Young, her article about Brett Farve is a Joke. She wrote a biased piece of $4!7 article. Yes it's an opinion and I like Farve and many other Football Loving fans feel politics are not to be part of sports. Why dont they help their struggling communities? Get involved, get parents to keep their kids off the streets and becoming welfare baby momas. It starts with the parents and role models. Yes the civil war was 160 years ago and yes there are still racists in this country so call them out, let everyone know who they are but while you are at it, clean up your own social issues in the home. Educate your children not to carry guns, not to sell drugs, not to assault, murder or hurt people. Not to run from the police is a good one too! Get all that under control and then there is room for dialog if this continues. By no means to we not need to educate and train cops better...yes we do but not defund them. Crime statistics dont lie !!! Either do welfare numbers!

..in the owner "Trophy Room", include final Regular Season standing (not as an actual Trophy but to record it)..

..oftentimes, a top Playoff Seed will be upset in a League's Playoffs..when that team has posted a stellar Regular Season, it means their Trophy Case doesn't recognize a Division Championship or a top-tier (top half?) standing in the Playoffs..

..i'd sugg: all Division or Conference Champs (both, in certain cases) have a Y! Trophy Case entry indicating their Regular Season "dominance"..depending on an individual league's Playoff setup, the topside teams would have a Trophy Case note..

..for ex: in a league where 6-teams make the Playoffs, the top-3 would have Trophy notes (except in a 4-Division setup..which has less likelihood in a Playoff set like that)..

..further ex: in a league with 8-teams going to the Playoffs, the top-4 would have a Trophy note about their Regular Season final standing..

..basically, have some note of a team's Regular Season results, which better show an Owner's game than some Playoff results do..

..again, not an actual trophy..possibly simply a star or asterisk..

`tis a thought>>

   --c.smith.