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Archive for July, 2009
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Brett Favre has decided to stay retired and not return to the National Football League for one more go with the Minnesota Vikings. That means we can finally put that story to bed for at least another year and concentrate on the opening of training camps around the NFL rather ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
College Football is just around the corner and Media Days have happened or are happening around the country for the various BCS Conferences. A substantial portion of the Southeastern Conference coaches took their turn addressing the media late last week in Hoover, Alabama and continued on in to early this ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
If you're a fighter trained by Buddy McGirt, you might want to take out a huge life insurance policy and lock yourself indoors for the next year or so. McGirt trained the late Arturo Gatti, and also the recently deceased Vernon Forrest. All joking aside, McGirt is known as one ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Odd ball. Strange. Really not sure what to make of this deal other than mucho dinero problemas. Two 26-year-old bigs were swapped in the NBA: Emeka Okafor to the Hornets for Tyson Chandler, a man who N'Awlins almost traded to Oklahoma City during this past season. Not to take anything ...
Posted in Charlotte Bobcats, NBA, New Orleans Hornets | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Points. Points. Points. This should be the Buffalo Bills main concern in training camp, and if you believe the words of head coach Dick Jauron, it is. This team was unwatchable a lot of the time on offense last season. That being said, when Trent Edwards was healthy to start ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Adam Rubin, writer for the NY Daily News, claims he has never seen anything like this, and frankly, I'm not sure who has. When announcing the firing of a team executive who was axed in major part to Adam Rubin's story, Mets GM Omar Minaya claimed that Rubin was trying ...
Posted in MLB, New York Mets | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Some guys just aren't meant to be head coaches. There's no shame in that. The list of guys that were great coordinators and average to lousy head coaches is long. Wade Phillips, Marvin Lewis, and Norv Turner come to mind immediately. Turner is thought to be one of the best ...
Posted in NFL, San Diego Chargers | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
What you see with Andre Miller is what you get. No, he is not the superstar Blazers fans wanted this offseason in hopes of immediately propelling them to the elite, and no, he's not a flashy name nor player on the court, but he makes his teammates better. He'll definitely ...
Posted in NBA, Portland Trail Blazers | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
The only way Pete Rose was ever going to punch his ticket to Cooperstown was for a major outcry of players to go on record stating that he’s served his punishment. For some reason, that’s exactly what has happened during the Hall of Fame induction ceremony over this past weekend.
Hank ...
Posted in MLB, Media | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Last week the four major sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL) filed a lawsuit to stop Delaware from putting sports gambling in place. My hope is they’re unsuccessful. I think the leagues are doing this just for PR sake. The NFL has to realize that part of their ascension ...
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