December 2007 - Posts
Earlier today I wrote about how you can’t count the Colts out of the Super Bowl picture. The Pats may be undefeated, but they’re not the only team that can play this game.
But the NFC is another picture. There are the Cowboys and then there’s … who?
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It's always dangerous to write about Bill Parcells until the ink on the contract is signed. And even then, it's still risky.
Just hours ago, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank was about to hire Bill Parcells to oversee football operations. Blank said he had an agreement in principle with Parcells, in fact.
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Memo to Tony Romo: Tell your girlfriends not to come to the game.
On Sunday, Tony Romo had one of the two worst passing games of his career against Philadelphia. Last year, also against Philly, was his other horrible day.
Some would see that and surmise that the Eagles have his number. But savvy observers note that the common thread in both losses wasn’t the opponent but the presence in the stadium of a Romo girlfriend.
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Some final observations on the Mitchell Report, which you may have heard or read about in the past couple of days.
Former Sen. George Mitchell, the author, says that naming names was the right thing to do. I’m not totally in agreement with that statement. It has nothing to do with the amount of evidence he has, but with how he came by the names. The essentially fell into his lap by happenstance – a clubhouse guy from the Mets who should have gotten better tips from the players and Roger Clemens’ personal trainer, who has legal problems of his own. Those two supplier sources go along with a couple of federal investigations and corroborating witnesses.
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Terrell Owens is a self-absorbed, egomaniacal knucklehead whose world ends at the boundaries of his own skin. And the Dallas Cowboys can only thank their lucky star that he’s found someone outside the organization to focus his negative energies on.
He blew up on Wednesday for no reason at all. You’ve probably read the story. On Sunday, Keyshawn Johnson, the former Cowboy who’s become one of ESPN’s 743 football analysts, rather innocently observed that Bill Parcells should get some of the credit for putting together the team that his successor as head coach, Wade Phillips, has taken to a 12-1 record. CONTINUED >>
My ballot arrived in the mail today for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2008. And it’s bereft of newly eligible candidates who are certified first-ballot members.
The best of the newcomers are Tim Raines and David Justice, and neither one is going to get my vote. Raines is close, and I may change my mind in the future, but I don’t vote for candidates in their first year unless they’re the best of the best. The other first-timers aren’t even close: Brady Anderson, Rod Beck, Shawon Dunston, Chuck Finley, Travis Fryman, Chuck Knoblauch, Rob Nenn, Jose Rijo and Todd Stottlemyre.
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Reggie Bush has a partial tear in his left posterior cruciate ligament. This is not good news for the New Orleans Saints, whose season began with the loss of running back Deuce McAllister and continued with losses in seven of the 12 games they’ve played to date.
Bush may or may not play this week and the rest of the season, but whether he does or not, the injury just underlines the fragility of the running back position in the NFL. And it should underscore once again the risks teams take when they waste high draft picks on the breed.
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Where are the front-page headlines? Where is the outrage? Where are the critics saying the integrity of the game is under attack?
These are the questions that came to mind when I saw the story that Ray Edwards, a defensive end for the Vikings, has been suspended for four games for testing positive for steroids.
Edwards isn’t a major star, but that shouldn’t matter. If he were a baseball player at the same level of accomplishment, it would have been a major story – at least the media would have made it look that way.
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