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There are beat writers for every NFL team and many of them have blogs. One site attempts to link to all of them, making it a whole lot easier to find local links about any NFL story.
posted on September 13, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
There are beat writers for every NFL team and many of them have blogs. One site attempts to link to all of them, making it a whole lot easier to find local links about any NFL story.
posted by oxocerite at 01:29 PM on September 14
Browns Trade Newly Benched QB Frye to Seahawks Two weeks ago, when Charlie Frye won the Cleveland Browns' starting QB job, team GM Phil Savage touted the decision and said "let's see what Charlie can do with a full deck." Ten passes and one interception into the new season, Frye has been traded to the Seattle Seahawks for a sixth-round draft pick.
posted by rcade at 04:26 PM on September 12
I think the real question is will the Brown's management have the strength of will to ignore the crowd and not start Quinn until after the O line solidifies. I've watched too many Detroit Lions quarterbacks of the future learn happy feet and bad mechanics by getting sacked repeatedly to think that Quinn by him self can save the franchise.
posted at 05:35 PM on September 12
As Line's Choreographer, Center Holds Key To Success Crouched and holding a football between his legs, a center in the N.F.L. faces crucial split-second decisions before each snap. What formation is the defense in? Is the line about to stunt? Is a blitz coming? Where will it come from? Do I need to change our blocking assignments?
posted by tommytrump at 07:58 AM on September 04
Last year I resolved to watch good football (living in the Lions broadcast zone and being too cheap to cough up for Sunday Ticket largely thwarted that). I think this year I'm going to try and focus on watching the line (inso far as the camera operators let me), as articles like this have convinced me that winning football teams all start with the lines.
posted at 01:12 PM on September 04
Jaguars Will Dump Leftwich, Rely on Garrard to Start In a dramatic about face from all of the happy talk this preseason between Byron Leftwich and Coach Jack Del Rio, the Jacksonville Jaguars will drop their four-year starter and elevate David Garrard to the position. If anyone's looking for a gutsy, slow-footed, cannon-armed quarterback who takes more debilitating hits than the Black Knight on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Leftwich is available for trade until 4 p.m. Saturday.
posted by rcade at 05:16 PM on September 02
Well if Trent Dilfer can do it and Rex Grossman can get there...
posted at 09:40 PM on September 02
Jaguars Will Dump Leftwich, Rely on Garrard to Start In a dramatic about face from all of the happy talk this preseason between Byron Leftwich and Coach Jack Del Rio, the Jacksonville Jaguars will drop their four-year starter and elevate David Garrard to the position. If anyone's looking for a gutsy, slow-footed, cannon-armed quarterback who takes more debilitating hits than the Black Knight on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Leftwich is available for trade until 4 p.m. Saturday.
posted by rcade at 05:16 PM on September 02
Considering he's been hurt his whole career maybe he'll hang up his cleats. Sure he could go somewhere else and play and do reasonably well, but I don't see him as going somewhere and leading the team to a Championship.
posted at 04:48 PM on September 02
Division I-AA Appalachian State Upsets Michigan, 34-32 "The Wolverines had never before scheduled a Division I-AA opponent, but the Mountaineers may be a tougher opponent than fans expect when they visit Michigan today," AP reported earlier today. No kidding. The two-time defending I-AA national champ beat No. 5 ranked Michigan, blocking a 37-yard kick after their own last-minute field goal a half-minute earlier.
posted by rcade at 02:49 PM on September 01
One of my coworkers was saying how if Michigan won by less then five touchdowns he would be disappointed. I almost feel bad for him.
posted at 05:04 PM on September 01
Holy frijoles! There's a fantasy football draft tomorrow morning? Snuck up quick. Are we leaving as scheduled? (H2H league)
posted by YukonGold at 07:25 AM on August 19
So can somebody who was at the draft tell me where the other ten people came from?
posted at 07:52 PM on August 19
Offerman charges the mound and takes his bat with him.
posted by justgary at 09:01 AM on August 15
There is a world of difference between charging the mound and assault with a deadly weapon. The sports field cannot and should not be a place where the rules do not apply. Interpreted differently perhaps, as contact sports are inherently violent, but deliberate attempts to inflict career (and possibly life) ending injuries should not be tolerated either by the league or the law.
posted at 11:11 AM on August 15
The Smoking Gun Reveals Steelers Secrets! "Touring rock stars and politicians alike could learn a few things from the Pittsburgh Steelers. When the football team hits the road, hotel personnel are presented with a 17-page document outlining the NFL squad's demands, from chapel services to chicken wings."
posted by terrapin at 06:24 PM on August 15
I imagine that trade shows and conventions have similar lists (minus the curfew part). Any time you call a hotel and ask for three floors, three conference rooms and catering for about a hundred or so people, you are going to have to set something like this up. Still way cool to read though. PS They did specify fresh squeezed orange juice which I have never seen with out pulp.
posted at 10:49 AM on August 15
Who's Now Pissed -- ESPN Viewers Hammer Network Over 'Buzz' Competition "This is a command performance column -- the command having been issued by the hundreds of viewers who asked me to say something about the Who's Now segments that ran on SportsCenter throughout July. No single topic has ever drawn the volume and intensity of unsolicited complaints to either my or my predecessor's mailbox that this sports popularity contest has." -- ESPN ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber
posted by rcade at 02:45 PM on August 14
"You know what I'd like SportsCenter to do when it's The Month Of Only Baseball? Cover other sports. Properly. The ones that don't get a look-in during March or October. But those contrbutors are under contract, and blabbering is what they do." While I think that this would be great, there is one problem with this idea. Blabbering Idiots are cheap while actual reporting is... well, not. Thus the proliferation of soft news, which costs less and requires less time than real news. Sadly 'if it bleeds it leads' applies to sports news for much the same reason as it applies to the six o'clock news.
posted at 12:22 PM on August 14
Beijing 2008: Bring a mask.
posted by SummersEve at 09:31 AM on August 13
This makes me feel really bad for the marathon runners, and I'm forced to wonder if waiting five years for the next one isn't such a bad idea.
posted at 12:31 PM on August 13
Holy frijoles! There's a fantasy football draft tomorrow morning? Snuck up quick. Are we leaving as scheduled? (H2H league)
posted by YukonGold at 07:25 AM on August 12
As near as anybody can tell they don't work. Although the theory was floated that it might be based on who has the nicest hair.
posted at 06:20 PM on August 12
Garcia Booted from PGA Championship for Incorrect Scorecard Reinforcing golf's reputation as the only sport that tests your counting skills, Sergio Garcia was disqualified from the PGA Championship Saturday for signing a scorecard one shot lower than his actual round. "It's my fault for putting the wrong score in, but it's his fault for not checking," said playing partner Bo Weekly.
posted by rcade at 04:54 PM on August 12
I don't know, I like the idea of the players having to keep track of their score, assess their own penalties etc. It means the players must know the rules and can't really argue when they screw up... which is what happened.
posted at 05:57 PM on August 12
Casualty of gridiron warfare Argo great Nykoluk bears scars of long career.
posted by tommytrump at 11:06 PM on August 12
The more I read about the long term consequences of playing football and other violent sports, the more I wonder if I should really be watching. Sure some of them would do it again, but some die at thirty-eight with the brain of a ninety year old Alzheimer's patient and it's my eyeballs (and millions like me) who make it profitable.
posted at 02:12 PM on August 12
This ain't my first rodeo! But the West Of The Pecos Rodeo, which has its 125th annual gathering this week claims to be the first, and oldest, rodeo. Cowboy Up, y'all!
posted by mjkredliner at 03:20 AM on June 18
I do. Though I will say that any rodeo collection of links that doesn't include The Calgary Stampede is a little thin.
posted at 12:34 AM on June 18
I'd love to see the same sort of thing for most sports. This is just the only one I... well I can't claim to have found it as I spotted it over on Football Outsiders earlier this summer and have been waiting until my comment count was high enough to share. Still, more of this sort of thing would be good.