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Archive for September, 2011
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Vince Wilfork sure showed the football world the kind of athlete he is after his interception of a Philip Rivers pass late in the first half of the Patriots-Chargers game last week. With 19 seconds remaining in the first half and a new set of downs, Rivers starred down Mike ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Jon “Bones” Jones and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson have gone back and forth in a war of words leading up their fight at UFC 135. The trash talk will end Saturday night in Denver. Originally the fight between Jones and Jackson was seen as one that only came together after an ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
So far, so good for Aaron Rodgers and the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers. After not doing much of anything during the lockout, the Packers look like they may just be the right team to avoid the Super Bowl hangover and make a legitimate run at defending their ...
Posted in Green Bay Packers, NFL | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
In the eyes of many fans and analysts at the outset of the 2011 NFL season, the St. Louis Rams seemed like a sexy pick to build upon their turnaround season in 2010 to make a run towards the playoffs in the wide-open NFC West. Quarterback Sam Bradford had a ...
Posted in NFL, St. Louis Rams | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Even though he understandably is willing to talk himself up, not too many fans or scribes consider Eli Manning to be one of the NFL's best quarterbacks. That said, he has done some pretty nice things for the New York Giants in his first seven years in the Big Apple. ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
After a fourth quarter collapse for the ages in week one, Tony Romo and the Cowboys entered Sunday’s game against San Francisco staring a must-win game in the face. With playoff aspirations this season the Cowboys could not afford to drop to 0-2. Thanks to Tony Romo they did not. ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
For the last few years people in Houston have been waiting for their favorite football team to finally take the next step, but it hasn’t happened. An explosive offense has been let down by a terrible defense and great starts have turned into disappointing finishes. This might finally be the ...
Posted in Houston Texans, NFL | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
If you were asleep on the boxing world this weekend, consider yourself both lucky and unlucky. The fact that you didn't purchase the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz makes you lucky; then again, perhaps the comedic gold that came in the post-fight interviews was worth the price of ...
Posted in Boxing, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao | 25 Comments »
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
With developments on the conference realignment front happening at a fast and frenzied pace each week, it's hard to blame a conference or a school from wanting to be proactive with its course of action. That's just what the Atlantic Coast Conference decided to do this past weekend when it ...
Posted in College Basketball, College Football, Pittsburgh Panthers, Syracuse Orange | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
There's no silver lining when it comes to the Kansas City Chiefs start to the 2011 season. The Chiefs have been absolutely putrid to start the year. They were waxed by the Buffalo Bills at home, 48-7, in Week 1, and then again by the Detroit Lions on the road ...
Posted in Kansas City Chiefs, NFL | 2 Comments »
