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Simultaneously defending and bashing Donald Trump's latest controversial tweet

As he seems to do on a daily basis, Donald Trump came under fire today for retweeting a doctored video of him knocking Hillary Clinton over with a golf ball. Some on the right have defended the president as a "fun guy" and that we all need to lighten up. Some on the left have claimed the tweet proves Trump is a misogynist. In my opinion, both sides are stretching here, Republicans need to stop defending the president, and Democrats need to focus their attention on other things. I don't think it can even be debated anymore; Donald Trump is a sexist. With exceptions, the president typically views women as nothing more than sex symbols, whose sole purpose is to please men's eyes and loins. Having said that, however, what President Trump despises even more than giving women credit based on their actual merits is losing or being called out for being wrong. Donald Trump holds stronger grudges than a teenager nicknamed Sir Grudge-a-Lot. There's a reason why he continua...

Dan Graziano won't be inviting Chip Kelly over to dinner anytime soon (and vice versa after the article Graziano wrote about Kelly)

The Oregon Ducks football team, who was coached by Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly before this coming season, was hit with a light sanction for a recruiting violation under then coach Kelly. This wasn't a very harsh penalty. This was to the death penalty (in college football) what a paper-cut is to a gun homicide. Sure, it might sting for a little bit, but it doesn't completely end a person's life, or a program in this scenario - not by a long shot. Dan Graziano of ESPN.com then wrote an article about the matter today and I was scratching my head while reading the "piece" in its entirety, before I scrolled to the top of the website to make sure it didn't say The Onion. Graziano's article is titled, "NCAA labels Chip Kelly a cheater." Yes, things only got worse from there... Graziano started the article by saying this: "I know that the vast majority of Philadelphia Eagles fans won't care. I know that all you care abou...