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TOP STORIES - DECEMBER 18, 2007 Get your NFL football tickets now at TickCo. They have all team Cardinals tickets, Cowboys tickets, Packers tickets, Colts tickets, Patriots tickets, Titans tickets and more. Get your Super Bowl tickets here! MY MOTHER'S OBITUARY: As it appeared in the Ashland Daily Press... I AM LEGEND: Pack wins, Favre NFL's new yardage king...  BROWNS PUT UP A SNOWMAN: Literally and figuratively in a blizzard on the lakefront. It is not the first 8-0 final in the history of the league, it last happened in 1929 - (safety, TD, missed PAT in old days, I can see it) COWBOYS LOSE, #1 SEED IN JEOPARDY: Romo and ME-O stink it up in 10-6 home loss to Eagles. Brian Westbrook ruined the fantasy playoffs for some people as he was headed for a game-clinching TD but instead elects to take a dive at the one-yard line so the offense could take three knees to end the game. PATS BECOME SECOND TEAM TO START 14-0: Score methodical 20-10 win over Jets, but if you had the stones to bench Tom Brady based on the weather reports, your move most likely paid off - #12 held to 140 yards and no TD passes for the first time this year.DOLPHINS 'DREAM SEASON' BROKEN UP!!! Blame it on normally reliable veteran kicker Matt Stover, who misses a 44-yard field goal in overtime. Moments later Cleo Lemon, playing like it was the Super Bowl or something, throws a 64-yard strike to someone named Greg Camarillo (who I don't have in my fantasy league) to put the Dolphins in the win column. And a little message for Jim Rome - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! BUCS FINALLY TAKE KICKOFF TO THE HOUSE!!! You can now blame something else on turncoat coach Bobby Petrino, as the Falcons prove just the tonic for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to return their first kickoff for a TD in the teams 32-year history, as the Bucs clinch the NFC Souch with an easy win. KAC 'CHAMPIONS LEAGUE' ANNOUNCED: Unlike 1989, it will not air on BSPN, and it will not air on the NFL Network either. KACSPORTS is proud to be the exclusive home of the KAC 'Champions League' - pitting 16 of the greatest NFL Champions in history for a 14-game regular season, with six teams qualifying for the ultimate playoffs to determine pro football's greatest team ever - at least until the 2007 New England Patriots rolled around. Look for results to appear on KACSPORTS.COM, including this weeks 'play-in' series between the 1966 and 1996 Green Bay Packers and 1977 and 1993 Dallas Cowboys. Here is the tournament field... AFC: '72 Dolphins, '04 Patriots, '68 Jets, '78 Steelers, '00 Ravens, '06 Colts, '98 Broncos, '83 Raiders NFC: '77 Cowboys or '93 Cowboys (play-in), '86 Giants, '82 Redskins, '66 or '96 Packers (play-in), '85 Bears, '02 Buccaneers, '99 Rams, '89 49ersLarry Csonka might just want to get wi-fi access in the Aleutian outback in case the '72 Dolphins are insulted by actaully losing a game again...  NEW STATS APPEAR IN NBA BOX SCORES No, this is not a hockey box score - plus/minus is now appearing as an official NBA stat. As is the case in the NHL, the +/- represents the number of points scored v. the points against for a specific player while he was in the game. In the example above, the Milwaukee Bucks outscored the opposition by nine points while Desmond Mason was in the game. As is the case in hockey, the stat is viewed as a way of statistically rewarding a player who does some of the dirty work that results in his team doing well that may not otherwise show up in the boxscore. In the NHL the +/- has actually been around longer than most would think, it has been an official statistic since 1968 while individual teams started monitoring the +/-'s of individual players since the mid-1950's. The other new addition to the NBA box is 'blocks against', very simply the number of shots that a player saw get blocked - in this box Andrew Bogut did not record a block but saw two of his own atempted shots get rejected. The new stats have been appearing on the NBA's website all year and made it's debut on the Yahoo site this weekend. CHECK WEATHER REPORTS BEFORE SUBMITTING FANTASY FOOTBALL LINEUPS: Six to eight inches of snow and high winds expected for Bills/Browns game in Cleveland. Snow and/or wind is also expected for Jaguars/Steelers, Jets/Patriots, and Redskins/Giants.  WHO FRAMED ROGER CLEMENS??? Roger Clemens agent sends out a 'fierce statement', vehemently denying the allegations in the Mitchell report. Clemens added that he 'is outraged that his name is included in the report based on uncorroborated allegations of a troubled man threatened with federal criminal prosecution' Yup, they call them rats...CANSECO SAYS A-ROD OMITTED FROM MITCHELL REPORT: You may have heard that Canseco tried to crash Mitchell's presser yesterday - but is now telling the NY tabloids that Alicia Rodriguez was omitted from the Mitchell report. What??? Alicia was getting too much progesterone shipped to Yankee Stadium??? Jose is always welcome to write the Canseco report and see if he can get an audience there... ANNOUNCER MISSING FROM BRONCOS-TEXANS GAME: But did anyone missed him??? Bryant Gumbel calls in sick for game televised on NFL Network, Gumbel is expected back for Saturday's Bengals/49ers game.  JOHN FACENDA MIMICKED YET AGAIN??? The son of the original NFL Films narrator might want to contact his lawyer yet again - check out Brett Favre's latest marketing endeavor, as a store clerk goes into a Facenda voice (at least that's what it sounds to me!!!) as Favre reaches for some Rayovacs, yeah, I know - they're cheaper than Energizers. In the past the Facenda family has sued Campbell's Soup and EA Sports, just some of many marketers that have used a version of the 'Voice of God' who has become far bigger in death (his last NFL Films work was Super Bowl 18) than he ever was in life, they ought to sue Berman while they're at it. You can check out the 30-second spot here.STOCK CAR FATALITY IN BRAZIL: Racer Rafael Sperafico killed in a horrific accident during the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. The 26-year-old lost control of his car, slamming into the tire barriers then bouncing back on to the track, where the car was broadsided by a car driven by Rentao Russo, who was also seriously injured. A trackside doctor said Sperafico died from massive head injuries followed by cardiac-respiratory failure, while Russo also suffered head trauma but was listed in stable condition. CLEMENS NAMED IN MITCHELL REPORT - ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE SHOCKED??? 409 pages and $20 million, I think we could reduce it down to a pamphlet if we really could. Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens were the first names to be linked today from the Mitchell report, it's said the two pitchers got PED's from a former Yankee trainer. I consider that about as shocking as Barry Bonds being named in the report. Other players named in the report include Paul LoDuca, Rondell White, Larry Bigbie, Jack Cust (ratted by Bigbie), Brian Roberts (also ratted by Bigbie), Miguel Tejada (easy to connect the dots the way his stats have fallen the last three years), Chuck Knoblauch, Mike Stanton, Kevin Brown (was wondering if he might turn up), Derrick Turnbow (when he was trying out for the Olympic team in 2004 - that is old news), Ron Villone, Greg Zaun, Eric Gagne (Red Sox GM Theo Epstein was said to have heard those rumblings before acquiring him) and Fernando Vina (there's a surprise). Various news outlets also initially had Albert Pujols named, those reports turned out to be false. During the press conference, George Mitchell said players from all 30 MLB teams have been involved in PED use. The inordinate amount of Yankeee players named in the report is being noticed, with some wondering if Mitchell has a Boston Red Sox agenda since he is from Maine - although former Red Sox star Mo Vaughn is also in the report. Former commissioner Fay Vincent says the Mitchell report as baseball's most serious challenge since the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Actually, in a way this is worse - but I was bracing for an A-Rod, Derek Jeter, Man-Ram, Big Papi, or Ryan Howard or someone else no one was expecting to be outed, their legacies for now are very much intact.  WHAT STEVE NASH WANTS FOR X-MAS: He may have toned down the mullet over the last off-season, but Steve Nash shows off the other tell-tale sign of a hockey player during a TV interview Wednesday night. Nash takes an inadvertent elbow late in the first half, and proceeds to do the TV interview (see Youtube above) with a mock lisp. Nash had the took broken before and it is capped, so they say it's an easy fix. Who cares, he's got the money, got the women, and never misses a free throw - I think he can survive with the Dany Heatley look.FALCONS CONTINUE TO LAY INTO PETRINO: Aloof coach leaves a 86-word statement in the lockers of all the players, saying that with a heavy heart he had decided to resign as coach of the A-T-L. One player crossed off the 'Sincerely, Bobby Petrino' and replaced it with simply 'COWARD'. Of course all the players knew Petrino was gone when he participated in the Pig Sooey cheer the night before. Other players said among other things that they felt like they've been 'sleeping with the enemy'. Some of the nicer words to describe Petrino include 'quitter', 'classless' and 'hypocrite'. And which players were these quotes coming from??? Try Joey Harrington and Warrick Dunn, the most mild mannered-types you will ever find. Dunn adds 'I guess Arkansas should be worried. I mean, any family or kid that he recruits should worry', indicating that potential recruits should worry that Petrino could bolt again at any time. And when Arkansas and Nick Saban's Alabama team plays from now on, would we call that the Traitor Bowl??? MITCHELL REPORT - BRACE YOURSELF: We will find out at 1 PM ET today - there are no leaks on the upwards of 80 current and former players expected to make the list, although some are reading between the lines that yesterday's trade of Orioles star Miguel Tejada could be perhaps a possible clue, and his name has surfaced before. But we have been told this, if you are looking for big names to fall, you may not be dissapointed. Those close to the case are saying expect to see MVP winners, expect to see Cy Young winners, expect to see perennial All-Stars, and also expect possibly the unexpected, names that have not been linked to this point. In other words, your favorite MLB star who has been considered milk toast up to this point is in risk of having his career tainted today, no name is safe - don't bet the mortgage that (name your player here) will not be named. One other thing that can be said, it is said Mitchell did not get a lot of cooperation in the 20-month probe, but that the testimony ratted out by former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski is going to prove to be invaluable. ME-O V. ME-SHAWN: Maybe T.O's psyche will unravel by playoff time after all??? It all started over the weekend when Me-Shawn Johnson sounded off on television about ME-O's statements about how swell things are down in Dallas now that Bill Parcells is gone, with Johnson's point being that the Tuna gets much of the credit for building the team and for the Cowboys current success. In a mid-week locker room interview, ME-O notes among other things that Me-Shawn is the one who once wrote a book called 'Gimme the damn ball' then caught 106 passes in a season, but only one for a touchdown - on a deflection Owens adds. ME-O concludes his rant by challenging ME-Shawn to get out of the BSPN studio and back on the field. BACK TO COLLEGE - PETRINO BOLTS THE A-T-L: Absolutely no surprise to me, even though team officials were said to be caught completely 'blindsided'. Petrino ends up being a Lou Holtz for a new generation - quickly realizing that coaching in the pros was simply not for him. Not that he was exactly dealt a good hand, although I still can't possibly see how he couldn't see Michael Vick falling off the wagon from a mile away. Petrino leaves the Falcons to accept the vacant Arkansas head job. The move is effective immediately so Petrino can get cracking in recruiting - nice move landing back on his feet. DH SAYS GOOD RIDDANCE TV INTERVIEW: His already frosty relationship with the ex-Falcons coach is now even icier than the storm that just ripped through the midwest. After witnessing Petrino's presser late Tuesday in Fayetteville, complete with joining cheerleaders in a 'Pig Sooey' cheer - DeAngelo Hall wasted no time in responding via phone during ESPN SportsCenter. Among other things Hall said Petrion treats his players like kids and that he has a wife and family at home. Hall also accused Petrino of having 'ulterior motives' and said he only took the A-T-L job as 'a stepping stool' to where he really wanted to be. And I'm guessing Hall thinks of Petrino as a different type of stool at this point - you may remember DeAngelo lost a significant chunk of change after being disciplined by Petrino after butting heads during a game earlier this year. ARTHUR BLANK RAISES EYEBROWS WITH 'FRIED CHICKEN' COMMENT: During in-game interview on ESPN, Falcons owner says Michael Vick could make it back to the show as long as he stays in shape and stays away from the fried chicken and fries. Now how many times have we been down this road??? I like KFC as much as anyone, but you don't mention fried chicken in the same sentence as referring to anyone who happens to be black. And definitely not a good move for an owner for a team in Atlanta in a profession where two-thirds of the participants are African-American. I wouldn't even use collard greens in a statement even though I could use a diet of that...BIG TEN GETS WITH THE TIMES - WILL HAVE BYE WEEK IN 2009: Of course the conference has traditionally been in the stone age on most issues over the years, except of course creating it's own TV network and keeping many of it's games off the cable TV world. The Big Ten votes to adopt a 13-week schedule for football beginning in 2009. This will allow all teams to stick a bye week during the season and not scheduling a non-conference game in the middle of the season. The move will also likely move the Ohio State-Michigan game to after Thanksgiving in recent years. T.J. FORD TAKES ANOTHER HEADER: Again winds up on a stretcher after being on the receiving end of a flagrant foul late in a game in Atlanta last night. Ford suffered a career-threatening spinal injury during his rookie year with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2004 and was also said to have been injured after taking a spill in a pick-up game just prior to the 2003 NBA Draft. CUBS MAKE THEIR MOVE: Northsiders ink highly-touted Japanese outfielder Kosuke Fukudome to a 4-year/$48 million contract. Fukudome has 192 home runs and a .305 batting average in his nine-year Japanese League career. YO, YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE... This info I heard on Claire B. Lang's Dialed in today, of the $12.95 I fork over to XM every month, CBL's three-hour show is worth at least half of that price with breaking stories such as this - A fire breaks out in the shrubbery in front of the home of billionaire NASCAR track owner Bruton Smith over the weekend. The fire started when some Christmas lights ignited. Bruton didn't know that there was a fire on his property until the firemen came knocking on his door. I think we can laugh about it a little bit, although Bruton did fall from #207 to #278 on the Forbes 400 list in the last year - hopefully not much more than the bushes and the X-Mas decorations were damaged - and I think he has the insurance, the house is valued at $2.1 million. JAMAAL TINSLEY ESCAPES REPEAR IN 4 AM INCIDENT: Indiana Pacers organization says it will not discipline it's point guard after weekend incident which saw his vehicles targeted by gunman in downtown Indy at four in the morning. Tinsley's Rolls Royce was hit three times, once in the windshield and twice in the driver's side, while another was hit five times. Tinsley was sitting in the passegers seat of the RR and miraculously was not hit - the team's equipment manager was in the car, he was hit in both elbow. Tinsley's brother then got in his car and chased the gunman. You can read about this incident and other previous blotter involving Tinsley here... PUNTER LATEST BRONCO TO FIND TROUBLE: Todd Sauerbrun faces an assault charge for an incident involving a cab driver outside a restaurant, a case that could bring more discipline from the NFL to the controversial punter, who was suspended last year for alleged use of a banned substance. In other Bronco legal news, receiver Brandon Marshall is scheduled to appear in a Denver court to enter a plea on a drunken driving charge last month, which ought to be a nice logistical headache as the Broncos have a game in Houston that night. BRANDON MARSHALL DRAWS YELLOW FOR SNOW: Flings snow towards his adoring fans after the first of two touchdown catches in Denver's 41-7 win, and draws a 15-yard penalty for using a 'prop'. Guess making it snow is as bad as making it rain as far as the NFL police are concerned. Now for what hasn't been flagged this year, Terrell Owens throwing popcorn in his face last week (not even original, R. Jay Soward actually went to the popcorn stand after scoring in a CFL game last year) along With Larry Johnson, waving and planting a giant logo flag into the ground that was given to him by the Chiefs coyote mascot. This week also marks the 14th anniversary of the Lambeau Leap, which could also be argued to be off-limits if you want to consider the fans themselves as props. |
