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19
Aug

Almost Football Time

It is almost football time.  College football time.  I received my Clemson season tickets in the mail over the weekend.  I am pumped.  Clemson opens with a neutral site game in the Georgia Dome versus Alabama.  Then we have four straight home games.  It will be a hot September at home, but I am still [...]

04
Aug

Brett Favre

Alright.  So I have not commented on the whole Brett Favre situation up to this point.  Favre continues to put the Green Bay Packers in an awkward situation.  He has done this for the last several years with his waiting until the last minute to decide if he was going to retire or not.  Obviously [...]

08
Jul

Pittsburgh Steelers Potentially For Sale

Dan Rooney, Chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers since the 1988 death of his father, wants to buy out his siblings shares of the team, according to The Wall Street Journal and the AP via ESPN.com.

Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney, the eldest of the brothers, wants to consolidate his control through a 10-year plan to buy out [...]

11
Jun

Root for Phil Mickelson?

I don’t think so.  Not for me.  But Rick Reilly says to give it a chance.  In a hilarious article, Reilly is urging his readers:
Rooting for Tiger Woods is like rooting for Justin Timberlake to get lucky, Exxon to hit a gusher, Bill Gates to find a twenty on the sidewalk. It takes no imagination. [...]

28
Feb

Congress Wants to Waste More Time & Money on Roger Clemens

Well, it seems Congress was not happy with Roger Clemens’s responses a couple weeks ago, so now they want to get the Department of Justice to prove whether he lied or not.
In a letter sent Wednesday to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis [...]

28
Feb

Rest In Peace

Two legends died on Wednesday.
One, most in the politics world know:  William F. Buckley, Jr., the conservative writer/founder of National Review passed away at the age of 82.
William Buckley, with his winningly capricious personality, his use of ten-dollar words and a darting tongue writers loved to compare to an anteater’s, was the popular host of one of [...]

07
Jan

Possible Four Team Playoff in College

Incoming BCS Chairman and ACC Commissioner, John Swafford, is mentioning that four of the major BCS conferences are now open to just that - a four team college football playoff, according to ESPN.com.
Each commissioner also stated that the SEC, ACC, Big East and Big 12 are open to discussing the “plus-one” format. The Big Ten [...]

26
Dec

Thank you, NFL

The NFL actually decided to make a decision that will benefit their fans.  This year, NFL Network (which is not available on cable) has had the rights to many good games, including a good showdown between NFC leaders, Dallas and Green Bay a few weeks ago.  Also, NFL Network has the rights to the New [...]

11
Sep

New England Patriots - Cheaters?

According to a report at espn.com, the NFL is investigating a claim that the New England Patriots used video equipment on the sideline to record the New York Jets’ signals.
NFL security confiscated a video camera and its tape from a New England Patriots employee on the team’s sideline during Sunday’s game against the Jets in [...]

07
Sep

Peyton Manning and Opening Night

I watched the opening night 2007 football game last night between the Colts and the Saints. NBC has really been pushing this game with ads that had Peyton Manning and Reggie Bush in them. In fact, the game started with another ad that game the appearance of it being live in the tunnel just before [...]

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