Hi, the New York Jets here.
Look: It’s kind of nasty out. And we’ve won a couple of big games in a row and have the division lead.
And Denver won’t be able to run on us; and they have a pretty bad defense.
And we read in the paper where we’re headed to the Super Bowl against [...]
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Cause, you know, we need more people talking ’bout sports.
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Nov 30
J-E-T-S: How Much is the Postage on This Game?
Nov 30
Does CBS Actually Follow NFL Football?
This little gem appeared in the midst of the Jets-Broncos game:
In case you can’t see it, the pic shows the Bill Parcells coaching tree. Directly under Parcells are Eric Mangini and Bill Belichick. Without any lines connecting them.
For those of you who have not been sentient and a consumer of sports news over the last [...]
Nov 29
Reason 980 Why Washington DC Sports Radio Is a Farce
Driving somewhere on Thanksgiving Day, I turned on the Sports Talk 980 hoping to catch the NFL football game.
Instead I got, well, sports talk. Recorded sports talk. From the previous day.
Is it too much to ask that the local sports radio station actually carries the major sporting event of the day?
Nov 28
Cursed Pitchers
There’s the “SI Jinx.” And the “Madden Curse.”
But what about the $100 million curse?
Let’s look at the roster of $100 million pitchers: Mike Hampton, Kevin Brown, Barry Zito and Johan Santana.
That translates to bust, bust, bust, too-soon-to-tell.
As Anthony McCarron writes in today’s Daily News:
None of the four previous $100 million pitchers - Brown, Santana, Barry [...]
Nov 26
How the Yankees Can Really Screw Themselves
What’s worse than signing C.C. Sabathia to a seven year deal? Signing A.J. Burnett to a five year deal. Or even a four year contract.
Yet with the Angels suddenly weighing in on Sabathia, Yankees sources tell Newsday’s Ken Davidoff that they are reluctant to go higher than the absurd contract offer they’ve already made. Signing [...]
Nov 26
Five Years Later, ‘Cuse Still Owns Kansas
The knock on Syracuse the last couple of years was their weak out of conference schedule. There’s no denying the Orange this year though - after dropping Billy Donovan’s #19 Florida Gators on Monday 89-83, The Sons of Jim Boeheim stormed back from 10 pts down tonight to upend the #23 Kansas Jayhawks 87-81 in [...]
Nov 25
Red Sox About to Trigger War With Japan?
So the Red Sox are reportedly set to sign an amateur Japanese pitcher.
Here’s the catch: That sort of thing just isn’t done, for reasons the excellent Pete Abraham discusses at his blog.
Nov 23
The Short List
This feels like deja vu all over again from the Providence Head Coaching search, but here is a preliminary short list to replace Charlie Weis at Notre Dame.
Let me caveat that I absolutely do NOT belive Weis will step down or be fired this offseason, although he should. Here is the early list with [...]
Nov 23
Moving on to real football and student-athletes
Well, once again we’ve had some fun with one of our traditional topics here, the Catholic Program That Once Was. Leather helmets, Studebakers, and Notre Dame football, those were the days. Now, I think highly of my (very realistic) ND alumni friends and admire the Irish program’s commitment to academics, but it is so much [...]