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VALVANO: Apologies are not that hard Apologies — what is so hard about them?

Either you get it and you’re sorry, or you don’t. But they don’t come with clauses and conditions.

I had a friend at ESPN who had a sign in her office that said, “Don’t ruin a good apology with an explanation.”

That pretty much sums it up. Either you’re sorry or you aren’t.
December 19, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO: Ohio girl reminds us of the good in sports The producer for my radio show at ESPN calls 2007 “The Year of the Scandal.”

It is hard to argue with him.

We had Michael Vick and dogfighting, an NBA referee betting on games he officiated, former Tour De France winners voluntarily giving back their trophies for doping, and Marion Jones not so voluntarily giving her titles back for doping.

Also, we had more and more evidence stacking up to lead to an indictment against Barry Bonds for steroid use, the Patriots being levied the largest fine in the history of the league for “Spygate,” and top tennis players accused of throwing matches.
November 28, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO: IU football is a team we can all get behind By beating Ball State last Saturday, they are bowl eligible. But I fear there will be a lot of six-win teams left home. The tiebreaker could be how well the teams travel (bowl games, after all, are first and foremost about making money), and IU is not known as a great “travel” team when it comes to football.
November 9, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO: Tales of sports gone bad We are used to seeing angry posts on sports Web sites. This, above all, seems to be the modus operandi of sports and sports coverage now.
October 24, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO: Dampier is a new Bocce hero My brother Jim used to like to tell this story.

When he was about nine years old, he and our older brother Nick, who was about 12 at the time, went to Yankee Stadium for one of the first times by themselves (I can't imagine the same woman, who raised me under such scrutiny in the relative hinterlands that was Long Island at that time, allowed my two brothers to take the subway from our home in Queens to the Bronx — by themselves — to see a baseball game, but she did.)
October 10, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO: Dye the man behind the courses There are many reasons I like living here in Southern Indiana and I just got one more on Monday, and a memorable experience along the way.

Many golf fans know the name Pete Dye. He is one of the premier golf course designers in history, and at 81 years of age, is still a single digit handicapper.
September 12, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO: College football is a fraud There are plenty of situations in life that seem to call for posing. You can’t go to an art gallery and simply blurt out, “I don’t get it.” You can’t listen to the obscure references of a Sheryl Crow or the late Jim Morrison of a generation ago, and openly point out that the lyrics make no sense.
September 4, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO:New course has bite, but is still a gem
August 14, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO: CWS lives up to its hype OMAHA, Neb. — I used to wonder why there seemed to be such a cynicism from people who cover sports for a living. I mean most of them would tell you they got into it because they loved sports, perhaps played them growing up, and yet seem so jaded once they got “inside.”
June 19, 2007 1 Photo
VALVANO: Happy to be with my new teammates Last week, I told you about the many lessons I learned during the experience of kicking in an actual Arena League Game for the Louisville Fire.
June 12, 2007 1 Photo
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