Monthly Archives: September 2008

Sports In Decline – Golf and Horseracing

September 18, 2008 – 12:07 am

The Ryder Cup is this weekend. The Europeans have dominated this action for quite a while now and the US team has to play without Tiger Woods – acknowledged to be the best player in the world. Do the Americans even stand a chance? US Captain, Paul Azinger, had this to say about the team’s [...]

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Tuesdays With the Sorries – NFL Edition On Wednesday

September 17, 2008 – 12:28 am

I hope this does not have to become a trend, but the NFL portion of “Tuesdays With The Sorries” had to be deferred until Wednesday this week because there were so many sorry-assed performances in college football last weekend. But I would be remiss not include the many and varied ways that NFL teams stunk [...]

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Tuesdays With The Sorries – - NCAA Edition

September 16, 2008 – 12:08 am

I’m back again with another installment of “Tuesdays With The Sorries” as I look back at the weekend of football that was. And before I get to some of the real bed-wetting performances of the weekend, let me outline for you my thoughts on the Ohio State/USC game on Saturday night. In case your cable [...]

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Are You Ready For Some Basketball?

September 15, 2008 – 8:59 am

Over the winter, many people have a countdown until that day in February when pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training. I don’t know anyone who does the analogous thing over the summertime so let me be the one to inform you that NBA teams will report to their training camps in less than a [...]

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Mythical Picks – NFL – Weekend Of 9/14/08

September 12, 2008 – 10:36 am

So, were there enough twists and turns in the NFL road to the Super Bowl for you in Week 1? Let’s just hit the highlights here: Tom Brady is out for the year and the Pats will start a QB who has not started a game since high school. In addition, neither of his backups [...]

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Mythical Picks – NCAA – Weekend Of 9/13/08

September 11, 2008 – 9:28 am

The 2008 NCAA football season is shaping up to be an interesting one – – maybe not as “interesting” as 2007 where any time a team found itself ranked as the second-best team in the country it got clocked the next weekend. Nevertheless, it will be an interesting one. Nothing contained in this rant should [...]

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Baseball And TV Stuff Today

September 10, 2008 – 9:37 am

It’s nice to see that some people are joining in with the fun. Yesterday I introduced the concept of “Tuesday With The Sorries”. Later in the day, I received an e-mail from Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times. I will share the text of that communiqué: The State of Washington should get a Sorry Award [...]

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Tuesdays With The Sorries

September 9, 2008 – 1:03 pm

Mitch Albom is a gifted sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press and is also a highly successful author of several best-sellers. His book that sold a jillion copies was Tuesdays With Morrie. I mention that because I want to play off that title. On Tuesdays during the football season, I like to review the [...]

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MLS Missing The Mark – - Again

September 8, 2008 – 10:44 am

There was an MLS game recently where the Toronto team had to use what the Toronto coach referred to as “kids off the street” to play. It wasn’t because he had lots of injuries or had a raft of players on suspension for on-field or off-field misbehaviors. It was because he had nine of his [...]

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Mythical Picks – NFL – Weekend Of 9/7/08

September 5, 2008 – 8:12 am

If I’m going to do Mythical Picks for NCAA games, I might as well do them for the NFL too. After a year’s hiatus, I am about to breathe life back into this vehicle and try to do one every weekend – – save for the weekend of my autumnal pilgrimage to Las Vegas where [...]

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