Billy Paultz Reconsidered

One problem with Hillary’s “experience” argument vis-a-vis Obama is if she was running against Joe Biden or Chris Dodd (or John McCain), you’d never hear the word come out of her mouth.
But, as George Will points out today, that’s not the only problem:
“Nothing, however, will assuage Clinton supporters’ sense of injustice if the upstart […]

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Right after I shut down the computer last night, MSNBC went to a panel including Joe Scarborough, who said people shouldn’t be critical of the punditocracy getting the Hillary thing so wrong because it was like sportswriters predicting the Yankees would beat the Red Sox (in the 2004 ALCS) after having a 3-0 lead.
Ugh. This […]

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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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BPR is back after a holiday vacation with considerable blog stored in its hump…
Alamo Bowl: Please understand that This Space is not a fan of Anthony Morelli. He was not a good major-college quarterback, and wasn’t close to what Joe Paterno and his staff portrayed him to be.
His performance in San Antonio included a lot […]

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The Mitchell Report on steroids, the latest major salvo in baseball’s longstanding public-relations war against itself, will be made public about 12 hours from now.
Journalists who’ve seen the report or talked to people who have say upwards of 100 players will be named as abusers of performance-enhancing substances. Mitchell had no subpeona power, and the report […]

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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 […]

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It’s getting to be that time of year, but today was  dense one by any standard:
1. Dubya “reluctantly accepts,” the resignation of his pathetically overmatched attorney general, continuing a glorious tradition of patronage and cronyism gone horrifically bad. (See today’s other post, headlined “Gonzo”)
2. Michael Vick formerly enters his plea, then makes a reasonably effective apology statement. […]

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The second-last time I went to a Phillies game to write a column I was surprised to see Stephen A. Smith there doing the same thing.
It was a Saturday afternoon game, and there weren’t many media people there, but Smith was, and he asked Charlie Manuel some decent questions afterward, and his piece, which appeared […]

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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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back in the news (hooray!).
He’s done an interview with a web site called MN1.com that included phone calls from viewers.
Here’s my favorite:
Caller: “Remember when you played for the 49ers?”
Simpson: “Yeah.”
Caller: “Yeah, did you kill Bill Walsh?”

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