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Overrated – A more innocent time

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … a more innocent time. I was in a waiting room this week that had not one People or Sports Illustrated magazine, so I had to leaf through some sappy sugar fest of a magazine

Overrated – Watching sports in a bar

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … watching sports in a bar. It would be fun to talk about how overrated the Super Bowl is, but more often than not we are treated to one hell of a game. Ever since

Overrated – Post-game comments

Ned Bitters This week’s inductees into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” are … post-game comments. A couple of Sundays ago, always interesting DeAngelo Hall of the Washington Redskins said in a post-game interview that the Skins “need to cut” him because of how poorly he had played

Overrated – Empty expressions

Ned Bitters This week’s inductees into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” are …empty expressions. Words matter to me, which is hard to believe if you look at the quality of the writing in these columns. Maybe I should say, “Other people’s words matter to me.” (File under:

Overrated – The things that slipped through the cracks

Ned Bitters In the past, I’ve been able to gin up two-page rants for topics that a well-adjusted, rational person would not even bother to notice, let alone work up a churning cauldron of stomach acid over. Not being a member of Club Sanity, I’ve been able