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This morning PFT put up a post about how Brees and the Saints are playing a “high-stakes game of chicken.”  (One could argue that two rich parties squabbling over millions of dollars is bit different from two fast cars flying at each other with death on the horizon but we won’t go there.)  Brees is angling to get properly [...]

So apparently Clipper Nation is reeling because the team recently revoking the right for “Clipper Darrell” to use “Clipper” in his name.  The odd part is that before this season, the only apparent member of Clipper Nation was Clipper Darrell.  Personally, your humble blogger had never heard of Clipper Darrell before this current atrocity. Clipper [...]

Read this article about Jay Bilas’ views on the NCAA’s newly implemented Academic Progress Rate (APR). Aside from spelling Dukie as “Dookie,” which seems more like a backhanded insult, Jeff Jacob does a good job detailing Bilas’ surprisingly rational and logical insights in to the NCAA’s latest regulation.  The APR is a way of quantifying a team’s [...]

I really wish the Super Bowl was being held in any other city at this point.   Just so the whole Media Circus was not having their yearly party right on Jim Irsay’s front lawn, because he really can’t help himself from opening the front door and charging at the first microphone he sees.  The guy needs [...]

ESPN is running  a dumb new feature called the “NFL Any Era Team” in which they rank the top 20 players “who would have thrived in the years before television helped make football a secular religion and the nation’s favorite pastime.” The reason I think this is a very dumb gimmick, among many other reasons, is [...]

Milwaukee slugger Ryan Braun was named the National League MVP after this past season.  Then he failed a league mandated drug test as he was found to have elevated levels of testosterone.  On Saturday he was in Manhattan to accept his tainted award and he sounded very much like someone who was guilty of taking [...]

Well, Donaghy’s finally completed the circle.  First he was a full time NBA ref, then he was an NBA ref who altered games for gambling purposes, then he was fired from be a ref and now he is a gambling consultant, more commonly called a tout, or at a site called The Sports Connection.  The [...]

The Colts fired the stoic Jim Caldwell yesterday. (I can’t tell if I should use stoic there or lifelessly indifferent.) The firing wasn’t much of a surprise, most coaches who only win two games are usually found outside the exits, but it was a surprise that it took them this long. I understand that they [...]

The Pats are currently favored by 7 and the O/U is at 50.5.  Both haven’t moved off their opening numbers. First Impression:  It’s extremely hard to back Joe Flacco on the road after turd he left on the field in his home stadium.  I’ll concede that the Texans have a much better pass rush than the Patriots but the [...]

Stephen Ross is the owner of the Miami Dolphins.  He’s also made a couple bajillions dollars in the Real Estate business, which is why he is the owner of the Dolphins.  The problem is that he has proved himself a readily incompetant owner and a rudderless one at that. I’ll give Stevie a little lee-way [...]