Billy Paultz Reconsidered

I’ve never had to write the annual, “Boy, is the trade deadline overhyped this year,” story. The trade deadline is overhyped every year, to the point of absurdity.
Mark Teixeira is a powerful switch-hitter who gives the Braves a big bat at a position, first base, where most teams have one and Atlanta hasn’t, since dealing […]

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reputation as an innovative genius is probably overdone, since he borrowed heavily from Sid Gillman and Paul Brown. As Salon.com’s King Kauffman points points out here, Walsh fit the system to the talent. If he’d had Dan Marino, he’d have gone about it a lot differently.
What I loved about Walsh was that a soft-spoken, professorial […]

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are not a bad thing. Here’s a blog, by George Packer on the New Yorker’s web site, that’s so thoughtful and elegantly written that blog seems the wrong word for it.
Monster quote:
“Here’s a crude generalization: after the sixties, intellect and patriotism went separate ways, to the detriment of both. This mutual hostility made intellectuals less responsible […]

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ESPN.com completed its list of 1-A football programs today with Nos. 1-25. Even if you’d quibble here and there, the list, an average of votes by 15 writers based on the past decade, is a pretty good one, and I think a useful one.
One legit way to look at a team’s schedule, especially pre-season for […]

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ESPN.com has ranked all D-1A college football programs from 1-119 here. Guess what Nos. 117, 118 and 119 have in common?

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… that halfway through this sporting summer, Pac Man Jones would look, comparatively, like Desmond Tutu?
… that the commissioner having the relatively stress- free summer would be the guy who runs the NHL?
Observations:
Every time you watch a game people bet on, there’s a chance the betting is impacting the integrity of the outcome. A very […]

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Ruppie just paraded into the newsroom to announce that Sergio Garcia will never win a major, prompting a rant (that’s ironic, Ruppie prompting a rant from somebody else.)….
There are a very, very few few golfers in history (Tiger, Nicklaus, maybe Bobby Jones in a far different time) who knew how to win majors without first […]

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Courtesy of Sunday News intrepid Internet journalist Casey Kreider, here’s the full indictment.
Also, here’s a theory on what’s exactly wrong with this guy: He’s simply a simp.

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who lives in Reading but does most of his training at Nye’s Gym in Lancaster, is the IBF World Welterweight Champion. He defended the title Saturday in Atlantic City with perhaps his best performance yet, knocking out Walter Matthysse in the second round of what was supposed to be a very competitive fight. Cintron, 27, […]

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I’ll unload on Michael Vick in the paper Sunday. For now, some random observations and links…
The less said about the Phillies 10,000th loss the better, so just a couple of things: The current Phils who’ve been there the longest, Jimmy Rollins and Pat Burrell, are 52 games over .500 in red pinstripes. The team with the […]

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