Loading ...Thanks to my two-year-old son, I’ve seen a lot of Sesame Street episodes. I’m not sure if it was a good lesson for him, but I really enjoyed Ricky Gervais singing Elmo a celebrity lullaby. With that in mind, this week’s six-pack of thoughts is all about words that start with the Letter B. Blasphemous. The Steelers [...]
The Yankees have called Derek Jeter’s bluff and told him if he doesn’t like their offer, he should test the free agent market. If I were the Mets, I would trump the Yankees offer to Derek Jeter and bring him to Queens. I know Mets fans just read that statement and threw up in their [...]
The contenders are separating themselves from the pretenders in most of the NFL. Of course, that can’t be said of the NFC West, where all four teams lost and my dream of a 7-9 division winner is alive and well. Perhaps the pressure is starting to get to some players, as mistakes and meltdowns ruled [...]
The Bears are now 7-3 after a 16-0 blanking of the Dolphins. They are just a half game behind the Falcons for best record in the NFC. But I still expect them to miss the playoffs because of two words: Jay Cutler. I just can’t shake the belief he’ll find a way to screw things [...]
To say Michael Vick put on an amazing show Monday night in our nation’s capital is an understatement. It’s hard to describe just how awesome he was, but perhaps the stats will help. -He passed for 333 yards and 4 TDs. -He rushed for 80 yards and another 2 TDs. -He is the first player [...]
The two most important positions on a football team are the coach and the quarterback. The coach must put his players in the right situations for success, keep their emotional levels stable and set the tone for the team. The quarterback must be an extension of the coach on the field, the player who leads with [...]
With each passing day, there are more questions for Auburn’s Cam Newton: Did he and his father tell schools they needed to pay to get him to play there? Did he go to Auburn instead of Mississippi State because the Bulldogs wouldn’t pay up? Did he leave Florida to avoid being expelled for academic fraud? There [...]
So here’s what makes me crazy…when a team decides it’s going to outsmart the other team instead of just doing what’s obvious and likely to work. It happens all the time in sports, especially in football, where every play is another opportunity for some offensive coordinator to try and make himself look like a genius. [...]
I hate kickers. Anybody who knows me knows this. It’s not necessarily the people themselves. In fact, I’m friends with the Vikings placekicker, Ryan Longwell. It’s that coaches worry way too much about field goals and not enough about trying to score touchdowns. OK, so the fact they seem to fail so often in big situations also drives me [...]
Earlier this season, Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper coined the slogan, “Giants baseball: Torture.” I’m pretty sure Giants fans would say the torture was well worth it as San Francisco finally won the World Series. In the NLDS, they won three games by one run. In the NLCS, they won three more times by the slimmest of [...]