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Brett Favre Epic Won't End in Championship Glory

Aug 18, 2010 - 8:41 PM

To call him a drama queen is to underplay the infuriating, suffocating absurdity of it all. In truth, Brett Favre is a freak show, a pampered, self-centered, 40-year-old child who at least is...

America Can't Handle Another Favre Folly

Aug 3, 2010 - 11:38 PM

Is cyanide an option? May I stick my head in the mouth of a Malayan pit viper? If You Know Who actually is retiring from You Know What -- and I dare say he is doing so definitively, at the risk of...

Darrelle Revis or Albert Haynesworth: Who's the Bigger Dummy?

Aug 2, 2010 - 2:00 AM

In an economic climate that isn't to be trusted, in an America that doesn't know if it's headed for a recovery or a depression, no one sheds sympathy for thick-skulled, well-compensated football...

T.O. and Ochocinco: Match Made in Hell

Jul 28, 2010 - 1:44 AM

Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten come to mind. Ren and Stimpy, too. Otherwise, I can't think of a more nonsensical and dangerous convergence of megalomania than the pairing of Terrell Owens and Chad...

Media Have No Business Voting for Sports Honors

May 17, 2010 - 12:15 AM

We, the media, are entrusted to report the news and comment on the news. We are not supposed to be making the news, unless, of course, you're Ron Burgundy summoning the News Team for a back-alley...

Favre Owes Vikings More Than Charade

Apr 30, 2010 - 10:57 PM

It really is a sickness, isn't it? As predictable as lawn fertilizer in springtime, Brett Favre wants to hold this country hostage with his acute case of megalomania. Once again, he's prepared to...

NFL Risks Racial Mess if 'Fins GM Skates

Apr 29, 2010 - 11:56 PM

"Are you anti-Semitic?" The editor asked the question and then stared me down, convinced I was guilty, all because a sports-franchise owner didn't like me and sometimes pressured the newspaper into...

Tebow/Clausen Lesson Learned: Character Trumps All

Apr 23, 2010 - 7:42 PM

NEW YORK -- It's only appropriate, I suppose, that God's quarterback will play in God's country. Unfair as it may be to weigh Tim Tebow with such a burden in Colorado, he's the one who eagerly...

Whither Bradford, Tebow: Rolling the Dice on QBs

Apr 22, 2010 - 10:37 PM

NEW YORK -- It's the sporting equivalent of sitting in Radio City Music Hall and guessing which of the world-famous Rockettes kicks highest. Or, more to the point, which chamber contains the bullet...

Roethlisberger Deserves Six Games; Steelers Should Deal Him

Apr 21, 2010 - 9:27 PM

To read accounts from the Georgia backwoods, Ben Roethlisberger's penis was ready, waiting and removed from his pants when he approached his 20-year-old accuser by the bar bathroom. I've yet to...

Antidote to NFL Crime: Tebow in First Round

Apr 20, 2010 - 11:00 PM

If I ran an NFL franchise, I'd draft Tim Tebow in the first round and, for now, put him in a mascot suit. He's the perfect anti-toxin for what ails the NFL, the annual roll call of bad actors that...

NFL Must Set Example, Suspend Big Ben Four Games

Apr 14, 2010 - 1:15 AM

Not long ago, Ben Roethlisberger spoke openly about how he brings his own security detail -- translation: entourage -- when he visits other cities to party. And all I could ask myself was, why in...