Billy Paultz Reconsidered

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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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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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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I think the deal here might be that Indy ran out of gas.
Joseph Addai has some history, by his own admission, of being wiped out late in games. The Colts’ defense is so reliant on quickness, and played with so much energy early, that maybe they just couldn’t physically sustain it for four quarters. […]

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Scoring margin as a method of evaluating football teams has become as devalued as neoconservatism. Or maybe communism.
Giving weight to scoring margin encourages bad sportsmanship and general ugliness, the thinking goes. The Bowl Championship Series directed the people who do its computer rankings to remove any consideration of scoring margin from their formulas in 2005, […]

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from Citizen’s Bank Park, where it’s incredibly hot for late September, a thunderstorm is an apparent possibility, and the Phillies’ umpteenth must game is about to begin.
The Phillies didn’t seem tight, during BP and all the pre-game stuff, but they did seem, let’s call it quiet. The exception, it goes without saying, was the relentlessly […]

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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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You know how sometimes you’ll be watching a basketball game and it feels like a certain player is doing nothing, and then you look at the box score and he somehow scored 20?
I swear, that’s how it is with me and Anthony Morelli. When I looked at the final stats from Penn State-Buffalo and saw […]

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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 Nittany Lions are up to No. 12 in both polls, which seems reasonable. USC is still No. 1, which isn’t. With utter destructions of Mississippi St. and Virginia Tech, LSU has been by far the most impressive team so far. The idea that USC is locked in on top until it loses is exactly why […]

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