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Bad behavior and scandal are nothing new to us in sports. We've seen it all. We know the breakfast of champions is no longer a cereal, but anabolic steroids. We know that the home run parade of a few years ago was a fraud conducted while the commissioner slept. We know that NBA players and Cincinnati Bengals have a gift for finding trouble, even if they have to stay up late and hang out in clubs to do it.

At some point, you quit trying to mollify a spoiled child and ignore him. Negotiations for a $1 billion resort hotel and convention center on the Chula Vista bayfront reached that point last week. A month ago, hotel operator Gaylord Entertainment of Nashville broke off negotiations with local labor unions out of frustration and announced it had all but abandoned the project. Support for the project came pouring in from every corner of San Diego County.

Escondido, beware. Recent events in a faraway Pennsylvania town do not bode well for the wave of self-serve immigration enforcement measures or the states and localities that toy with them. When members of the Escondido City Council decided last year to jump into the immigration fray by passing an ordinance that punishes landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and the employers who hire them, they must have known they were on shaky legal ground. Surely they were advised that this sort of local grandstanding on a federal issue was flat-out unconstitutional.

On June 22, Michael Moore's new film, “Sicko,” debuted, and in the weeks since, buzz about the film has not died down. Millions have seen the movie, renewed calls for socialized medicine in the United States have been made, and attention has been focused on the not-insubstantial failings of the American health care system, which are depicted grimly in Moore's documentary.

Rupert Murdoch, the last Western tycoon who seems genuinely interested in print and newspapers, has succeeded in buying Dow Jones and its flagship, the world-class Wall Street Journal.