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NHL sets attendance record for October. More than a few disgruntled NHL fans swore it'd be a cold day in Hell before they attended another pro hockey game. Anybody checked the weather down there lately?
posted on Nov 2, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
The beginning of the end, my friends Like a lot of Americans, I grew up with ABC's Monday Night Football as a part of my life during the NFL season. Tonight, the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, will be the first telecast of MNF's last season.
posted on Aug 8, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
Hockey Sweater Showdown! #1 Montreal Canadians vs. #2 Chicago Blackhawks The voting ends November 1st. In true Chicago tradition I urge you to vote early and vote often as these Finalist Square for NHL Bragging Rights. See how your squad's threads did in comparison to these Timeless Classics.
posted to Hockey at 8:32 PM CDT
Vick to still play. "The Associated Press reported that after consulting with the Falcons, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and top league officials agreed Wednesday to let Vick play as the legal process determines the facts. A person with knowledge of the meeting, who requested anonymity so the case would not be influenced, said the NFL would stick to that position for the foreseeable future, despite its new personal conduct policy, the AP reported. "
posted to Football at 6:26 AM CDT
The NFL said Vick would still get his preseason pay...
But of course he will, loves.
posted at 5:34 AM CDT on July 24
Bears beat the Lions and they're the worst team in the past five years. How much worse can they get? And what will it take to pull them out of this hell-hole? Is there hope?
posted to Football at 3:05 AM CDT
Maybe the Fords should sell the Lions franchise to the Chinese so some of that coin we've be blowing on cheap imports can come back over here.
posted at 7:42 AM CDT on December 27
Hall of Famer Gainey's Daughter Swept Off Ship in Storm The daughter of hockey Hall of Famer Bob Gainey was swept off a Nova Scotia ship during an Atlantic storm, and Canadian and U.S. rescuers are looking for her in an extensive ocean search.
posted to Hockey at 12:59 AM CDT
Humming "Eternal Father, Strong to Save"(yes, I know she's not Navy, but the principle applies) and praying like crazy here.
posted at 11:21 AM CDT on December 11
Free Furniture for Armchair Quarterbacks Over the Labor Day holiday, all furniture sold by Randy Gonigam's World Furniture Mall in Chicago was sold with a special deal -- the price dropped to $0 if the Bears shut out the Packers in their upcoming Week 1 game. "Four quarters, 206 customers and about $300,000 later, Gonigam is still a little shell-shocked," according to AP. All furniture sold next weekend will be free if the Cubs win the World Series.
posted to Football at 7:31 AM CDT
Indeed, defenses on teams that are winning big will sometimes slack off a little bit in the fourth quarter, resulting in a "trash" TD that doen't affect the game's outcome but obviates the blight of a shutout. It's human nature to ease up a little when it doesn't matter all that much, but with some DCs and defensive units, the "no trash scoring EVER" is a big point of pride.
posted at 10:33 AM CDT on September 13
BTW, folks: How many of you expect Brett Favre to start at noon on New Year's Eve day when the Pack has its rematch with duh Beahs? I'm not saying he'd take a dive, but maybe it'll be time to start giving what's-his-name (Rodgers?) a few snaps instead.
posted at 10:51 AM CDT on September 13
Big Ben Should he play Monday?
posted to Football at 9:36 PM CDT
If he can give 100 leg lifts without slacking off, he's healed enough to play.
(Disclaimer: IANAm.d., although I've had to deal with a transmuscular incision roughly about that far down.)
posted at 10:55 AM CDT on September 13
OH! Sir, this recruit knows how he heals so damn quickly. He's, what, 24? At that age I recovered from dings pretty quickly too.
posted at 10:56 AM CDT on September 13
Raiders go way back, sign inactive quarterback George The Oakland Raiders signed Jeff George to a contract Monday, bringing back a player who hasn't thrown an NFL pass in five seasons.
posted to Football at 6:32 PM CDT
George, the top pick by Indianapolis in 1990, previously played for Oakland in 1997-98, is mostly an insurance policy for the Raiders, who already have Aaron Brooks, Andrew Walter and Marques Tuiasosopo on the roster.
The article doesn't mention money, unless I missed it, but I bet the "premiums" on this "insurance policy" are dirt cheap, too. Anybody wanna bet whether he's still on the roster (not practice squad, etc.) at the end of the season?
And yeah, everybody's raggin' on Al Davis, but I wonder what on earth Art Shell is thinking unless he got George for, like, five cents a game.
posted at 6:37 AM CDT on August 29
Charlotte Observer: Panthers were juiced for 2003 Super Bowl run Using information from a federal steroids case and its own deduction, The Observer named names this week, saying three of the five starting offensive linemen from the Panthers' February 2004 Super Bowl team -- guard Kevin Donnalley, center Jeff Mitchell and tackle Todd Steussie -- were in the report.
posted to Football at 6:04 PM CDT
I hope you'll excuse a derail, but this has been on my mind lately anyway:
If they're going to start cracking down on steroids, doping, whatever...maybe they ought to have a weight limit so there won't be an arms race to have the biggest, strongest guys. Imagine if everybody had to come in at 250 or less and the key differentiators among players at a given position became agility, stamina, quickness, smarts, durability etc.
What's really weird to contemplate is that as recently as the late 1960s, weightlifters in the NFL were considered oddball "body beautiful" types who wouldn't necessarily be tough enough to take the pounding.
posted at 6:28 AM CDT on August 29
From Bad to Worse for Maurice Clarett The ex-Ohio State running back was arrested early this morning after a traffic stop. After struggling with officers, Clarett, who is already awaiting trial on robbery charges, was hit with the stun gun, which was ineffective, because he was wearing a bulletpfoof vest. After he was Maced, it still took "several officers" to subdue and cuff Clarett, who was carrying four loaded weapons in his SUV.
posted to Other at 6:31 AM CDT
He's damned lucky he didn't reach for any of those weapons, or we'd be reading about Mr. Clarett in the obituary pages.
posted at 7:06 AM CDT on August 9
Bengals Fans Can Call 'Jerk"'Hotline Tired of the drunks and nasty language during the Game? If you're a Bengals fan you can use your cell phone, call the Jerk Hotline, get the offenders investigated and maybe even run out of the stadium, all while the game is being played. Sounds like a great idea to me and it might cut down on fights and just generally boorish behavior from troublemakers.
posted to Football at 1:44 AM CDT
Yeah, I hope that the enforcers bring their brains along. If I'm merely cheering for the opposing team, I don't think I should get this used against me by some overly partisan hometown fan.
posted at 7:10 AM CDT on August 9
Your university as a Simpson's character
posted to Culture at 2:14 PM CDT
The USC Gamecocks/Edna Krabappel comparison cracked me up...until it intimated that Steve Spurrier can turn things around. Doug's clearly unfamiliar with the "Chicken Curse"!
posted at 5:09 PM CDT on June 5
Hey fake fans: Make like Damon and leave Red Sox Youth is now a privileged lot that sits behind home plate and talks on cell phones, and you cannot help but wonder if any of them ever played the game at all. And when you ask them if they did, they proudly show their blisters from the PlayStation hand control.
posted to Baseball at 12:58 PM CDT
They show up like every day is Christmas, and you know what that means: You just lost your seat at church. You have shown up week after week, year after year, and now you have to stand behind the last pew because of some lady with an obnoxious pink hat.
I don't know how they do things in Boston, but I'm more used to seeing holiday churchgoers wear obnoxious pink accessories at Easter.
posted at 3:41 PM CDT on June 4
New 'MNF' team buckles up Producer Jay Rothman seemed thrilled: "It was scary good. Good enough to put on the air, right out of the box. We're ecstatic, to be honest."
posted to Football at 3:23 AM CDT
ESPN, paying a record $1.1 billion annual rights fee, ....
Eeek! For $1,100,000,000.00, I hope they're getting their money's worth.
posted at 11:30 AM CDT on May 29
In the Blue Jackets defense, they've shed the neon yellow-green bug that looked like it should be playing college football in Atlanta.
Well, yeah, except that a swooping stylized Ohio flag has "non-hockey-fan focus-group consensus compromise choice" all over it. But then, "Blue Jackets" isn't exactly the most inspiring choice for a team name I've ever heard, either. That's usually what US Navy sailors call themselves (in addition to other descriptors like "screwed by recruiter," etc.); I've heard it's supposed to be some murky reference to Northern soldiers during the US Civil War -- not a terribly well publicized connection to the Columbus area that I've become aware of. 'Sides, the notion of Yankee troops doesn't intimidate this Southern boy much -- back home, we think of them as "cannon fodder from up Nawth."