Dan Snyder, the owner of a certain Washington based NFL football team that has a racist nickname, is threatening to sue a paper for an article posted if the author is not fired. What’s funny is that the article is not that inflammatory. While it is childish, it’s not any worse than anything written about [...]
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Jake Plummer on Mike Shanahan
Jake Plummer says the same thing about Mike Shanahan that Les Carpenter said earlier this week. "I had a coach that, regardless of how well I thought I was playing or how well the majority of fans across the country thought I was playing, it was never good enough for him," Plummer said, not bitter [...]
Christmas Gift Ideas for the Sports Fan (2010 Edition)
Hockey Night in Canada Retro Puck & Stick Rug :: While Gary Bettman doesn’t respect the traditions of the NHL, that doesn’t mean that you can’t. Check out this retro Hockey Night in Canada welcome rug which would look great every Saturday night as you host your friends and family for the Hockey Night in [...]
Searching for the next John Elway
Les Carpenter at Yahoo! Sports has a good article on how Mike Shanahan’s constant search for the next John Elway is ruining his coaching career and the Washington football team. When it comes to quarterback, the position he played and loved and has nurtured through his 35 years of coaching, Mike Shanahan is never a [...]
What’s a Clean Hit?
Found in the Vikings locker room. Vikes punter Chris Kluwe tweeted the picture on Thursday night. The message is likely in response to a clip in the video of Seattle Seahawks punter (and Saskatchewan native) Jon Ryan getting flattened on a punt return. The hit was praised as clean. Also, while looking at Jon Ryan’s [...]
Degeneration of the Central Nervous System
This is from the New York Times Two months ago, Boston University researchers found that some deceased athletes who had been found to have A.L.S. in fact had a different disease that, the doctors said, caused similar degeneration of the central nervous system. That discovery, bolstered by data that suggested that N.F.L. players had been [...]
