Not long ago, Louisville's 2013 national championship in the college basketball world got vacated because of NCAA violations. In the record books, next to 2013 national champion, reads "Louisville (vacated)." This has also occurred with USC's 2004 college football title. I'm sorry, but this is stupid. It's documented that these games took place. The players played them. The coaches coached them. We watched them. To say otherwise is to call the world crazy. If the NCAA wants to place asterisks next to such violators in the record books, fine, but to pretend the games never took place is crazy in and of itself. Regardless, the winning coaches and players still have their championship rings and, most importantly, their memories of the title runs, and the NCAA can never take that away from them.
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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