Nothing to do with sports...

Saw the headline on Yahoo! and couldn't resist.

Don't Tell Me What To Do, Rick Reilly

Rick Reilly's one of the new sportswriter types that gets away with unabashed biases in his column. In order to be a columnist, you have to have opinions and with that your biases will show through. But I don't think that I've seen a national columnist so predisposed against one particular team (well, except for Bill Simmons, but he's more of a fan than a journalist). Now, I'm not one to say that I can never read certain writers. I agree with some writers more than others, and sometimes I'll disagree with them. And I just can't agree with Rick Reilly telling me to root for the Mavericks. Here's what he says: