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Why Is Goodell So Sharp, Selig So Inept?

Mar 24, 2010 - 10:30 PM

In the same productive week when the NFL improved its silly overtime format, voiced optimism that a labor stoppage will be avoided, took more steps to protect players' brains, expressed concerns...

Big Ben Could Go Down as Big Bum

Mar 8, 2010 - 11:11 PM

Why was he there? What was he thinking? Why wasn't he watching a game on TV, dining at a cool restaurant, squiring a date or catching up on sleep before a morning tee time? Odd, but the same...

Payton's Place Ripe for More Parades

Feb 9, 2010 - 9:15 PM

It isn't a bandwagon we're jumping on. It's a Mardi Gras float, a wave of confidence that dares to suggest that the New Orleans Saints, a team that wasn't supposed to win the Super Bowl unless the...

Time to Put Pro Bowl Out of Its Misery

Jan 31, 2010 - 11:30 PM

MIAMI -- Given a choice of watching the Pro Bowl or wading with killer alligators in the Everglades, well, next time, I promise to think about it. Not that I really want a next time. If this event...

Warner: Rare Great Who Shouldn't Retire

Jan 28, 2010 - 1:10 AM

Normally, I run the Legacy Protection Program, urging premier athletes to retire so our fondest memories don't fade on a tear-drop canvas of creaking bones, senility and Viagra ads. Among them was...

Super Bowl No Place for Tebow's Views

Jan 27, 2010 - 1:30 AM

Super Bowl Sunday is a chance for America to unite around football, parties and, better still, those ambitious and occasionally hilarious 30-second ads. This year, we'll see such creative...

I'm Not Afraid to Beg: Come Back, Brett

Jan 25, 2010 - 10:00 PM

NEW ORLEANS -- Having been in this murky place before -- once, twice, how many friggin' times now? -- we recognize it as the self-serving interval in which Brett Favre wants us to gush and goo over...

Saints and Their City Finally Get a Break

Jan 25, 2010 - 2:25 AM

NEW ORLEANS -- I saw men and women laughing through their tears Sunday night, staring at a confetti blizzard on a field where so many games have been blown and, in life's biggest picture, so many...

A.D. Has Been A Dud, Needs Big Game

Jan 23, 2010 - 5:43 PM

NEW ORLEANS -- It's curious enough that Adrian Peterson, nicknamed "A.D." (All Day) and "Purple Jesus" and once known as football's finest running back, now is an afterthought on the field. But it...

If Cowboys Think Big, Why Keep Phillips?

Jan 19, 2010 - 1:00 AM

Jerry Jones built the world's largest domed stadium, one with an exterior made of fritted glass and limestone rock, one that cost $1.3 billion and has a magnificent high-def screen hanging from one...

In Favre's Fairy Tale, 40 Is the New 30

Jan 17, 2010 - 8:20 PM

MINNEAPOLIS -- What we're watching is a triumph beyond football, sport and maybe anything similar we've seen in life. The finest tribute I can give Brett Lorenzo Favre is this: at 40 years, three...

If This Is Real Bush, Saints Are Super

Jan 16, 2010 - 10:50 PM

NEW ORLEANS -- Is it wise to aggravate fate, mess with karma, toy with the voodoo? The Super Bowl is Feb. 7, the weekend when Mardi Gras kicks in, a day when parades and beads and Hurricane-lubed...