Monthly Archives: January 2008

Reserving Judgement On Randy Moss For The Moment…

The Randy Moss assault and battery situation should play itself out in the next 10 days at a hearing. Therefore, I will reserve final judgment there with regard to his continued status as a functional member of society. I would like to comment on one part of the statement that Moss made with regard to [...]

Recommended Reading…

Here is the link to a very good column by David Whitely of the Orlando Sentinel on the Congressional baseball hearings and the sudden outbreak of ADD among baseball players. I commend it to your reading…

Hodgepodge Lodge

About 40 years ago, there was a kid’s show on PBS called Hodgepodge Lodge. Given the motley assortment of things to talk about today, I feel as if I should broadcast this from the set of the old Hodgepodge Lodge program. Alexander Ovechkin recently signed a multi-year contract with the Washington Capitals with a total [...]

Pacman Jones + Strip Club = Trouble – - Surprised?

An early entrant into the Dumb Bunny of the Year competition has to be Pacman Jones. Eleven months ago, he got into enough hot water over a shooting incident at a Las Vegas strip club that he earned a year’s suspension from the NFL. He did not spend those eleven months in a monastic existence; [...]

Congressional Steroid Hearings – Round Two Upcoming

Since we will have Round Two of the Congressional hearings into steroid use in baseball starting today, let me give present the one small interchange within the hearings that I really wish would occur. This is the only version of fantasy baseball in which I indulge: Rep. Chatterbox: Mr. Clemens, I remind you that you [...]

Correction…

I must begin with a correction today. Last week, I said that John Harbaugh was the Eagles’ special teams coach and that the Eagles’ less than stellar showing on special teams this year would not seem to enhance his résumé to become a head coach in the NFL. That was wrong. Harbaugh had been the [...]

Best Weekend Of NFL Season

You could make the argument that the opening week of the NFL season is the best weekend of the season because everything starts there and there hasn’t been a pro football game of any consequence for more than six months. You could make the argument that Thanksgiving weekend is the best weekend of the season [...]

More Recommended Reading

Gene Collier of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote an excellent column on baseball and steriods and Roger Clemens and … It is well worth your reading.

New Orleans Hornets Redux

A couple of months ago, I wrote that I would not be surprised to see the New Orleans Hornets relocate because New Orleans is not a basketball town and does not support the Hornets all that well. I got responses telling me that I had my head up my butt and that I didn’t know [...]

Hypocrite Alert! Hypocrite Alert!

I was rooting for such a horrid game in the BCS Championship Game that there would be a clamor for a real championship tournament in college football. Naturally, I wanted that to happen; it would have moved things toward a football playoff system, which I want, and it would give me a game to ridicule [...]