Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Here’s one of three segments of the latest edition of The Low Post, in which Starkie and I compare the Lakers to the great teams and Kobe to the great players.
This is segment two, recapping the NBA Finals.
Segment three: are Eagles fans all in all just pretty darn happy with Big Red, Banner, McNabb and Co.?

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Don’t expect to see much about fantasy sports on this blog, but Sports Illustrated’s NFL fantasy preview last week caught my attention.
The most valuable position in real football is of course, QB, but in fantasy it’s running back. SI has Brian Westbrook ranked fourth at RB behind LaDanian Tomlinson, Adrian Peterson and Joseph Addai.
Of that […]

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When Payton Manning played brilliantly but couldn’t get his team over the top in big games, the rap was that individual stuff means nothing, wins are the only thing that matters.
When Eli Manning’s team wins three straight road playoff games to get to the Super Bowl, now the wins don’t validate, and everybody wants to […]

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The Eagles had fewest takeaways in the NFL (which is at least partly luck), the fifth-toughest schedule in the NFL, the worst special teams in the NFL (easily addressable), their quarterback wasn’t remotely healthy until about week 12, their coach was dealing with a family disaster, and they went 8-8. They’re not as far off […]

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So the Patriots got caught cheating three months ago, and their reaction - their coaches’ reaction in particular - was to turn this season into a crusade to stick it to the world and show everybody. This has led to the unsavory spectacle of guys ecstatically spiking the ball after touchdowns that put their team […]

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First of all, it was a great football game. Before we get caught up in the quarterback controversy and the analysis and whether the Patriots were overhyped, can we at least acknowledge that?
Thank you.
One thing I love about Andy Reid is that he always believes in himself, and he never cares what everybody says, what […]

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Here are the highlights of what Donovan McNabb said in an interview with HBO’s “Real Sports” that aired Wednesday:
“There’s not that many African-American quarterbacks, so we have to do a little bit extra. Because the percentage of us playing this position, which people didn’t want us to play … is low, so we do a […]

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Good stuff on Lloyd Carr here, including some things I didn’t know: It has long been suspected that Carr would leave after Chad Henne, Mike Hart and Jake Long graduated. I knew that part. What I didn’t know is that his contract was restructured last year so that after this year, he could be paid […]

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The NFL casino is open. It is my twisted fantasy that it’ll go something like this:
AFC East: Patriots. North: Ravens. South: Colts. West: Chargers.
AFC wild cards: Jaguars, Broncos.
NFC East: Eagles. North: Packers. South: Saints. West: Seahawks.
NFC wild cards: Panthers, 49ers.
Final four: Pats, Colts, Eagles, Panthers.
Super Bowl: Pats over Eagles.
Frauds: Cowboys.
Surprises: Redskins, Packers

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The Phillies just beat the Pirates 11-6. They had 16 hits, six extra-base hits including two home runs, one of them a three-run homer. They had one meaningless sacrifice and no stolen bases. Twice they had the man-on-second, nobody-out situation and tried to make the stupid baseball play of the hitter giving himself up to move the runner […]

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