I realized by the end of the day that I can’t yet decide which team I prefer to win Super Bowl 50. My only concern was that the New England Patriots (and Bill Belichick and Tom Brady) not win it, and the Denver Broncos addressed that concern with their 20-18 victory in the American Conference […]
Entries Tagged as 'NFL'
The ‘Whatever’ Super Bowl
January 24th, 2016 · No Comments · Football, NFL
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Attention, Los Angeles: Don’t Get Too Cozy with the NFL
January 12th, 2016 · No Comments · NFL, Rams
If we have (almost) learned anything in sports over the past three or four decades, it is this: Don’t get too cozy with your professional sports heroes or your sports teams. And that pertains particularly to the National Football League — which today committed to sending the Rams to Greater Los Angeles in time for […]
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NFL’s Los Angeles Scrum: Send the Rams, Keep the Raiders
January 11th, 2016 · No Comments · NFL
So, we lived to see it. The National Football League is returning to Los Angeles. One or two of three teams apparently will be headed for greater L.A. by the end of Wednesday The concern now? The NFL will contrive a way to mess this up.
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Another NFL Kicker Shoulders the Blame
January 10th, 2016 · No Comments · Football, NFL
I have written about this in the past — how easy it is for NFL teams to expect perfection from their kickers, and then turn their backs on them if they happen to miss. Blair Walsh could tell you about it. The Minnesota Vikings kicker missed a 27-yard field goal with 20 seconds to play, […]
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Cold Football (and Other Chilly Events) I Have Covered
January 9th, 2016 · 1 Comment · Football, Golf, Lists, London 2012, NFL, Olympics, soccer, Sports Journalism, The National, UAE
Much is being made about the brutal cold expected at the NFL playoffs game in Minneapolis on Sunday. The Minnesota Vikings versus the Seattle Seahawks at the University of Minnesota — with a forecast temperature at kickoff of 0 degrees Fahrenheit. That will make it one of the coldest games in NFL history, though the […]
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Snap Judgments from One Day of Watching the 2015 NFL Season
December 27th, 2015 · No Comments · Abu Dhabi, NFL
I have been away. Have I mentioned that? And it’s hard to see the NFL play where I was living, on the other side of the world. But, back in the USA for a slow Sunday … I slipped back into the couch potato mode and pretty much just stared at the NFL all day. […]
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Warriors’ Streak Stopped: That Was Me!
December 13th, 2015 · No Comments · Abu Dhabi, Basketball, Lakers, NBA, NFL
In the previous post I fretted over the possibility that the Golden State Warriors could break the Los Angeles Lakers’ record NBA winning streak of 33 games. Within hours of that post going up … the Warriors lost, for the first time this season. And I will take some credit for that.
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Oz Rugby Correspondent Live-Blogs 49ers Game
September 20th, 2015 · No Comments · Football, NFL
This is a hoot. Apparently Matt Cleary got some attention in the States a week ago, when he live-blogged the San Francisco 49ers game with the Minnesota Vikings for a newspaper in Australia. Why would Australia care? Because a famous former rugby player from Australia named Jarryd Hayne has made the 49ers roster as a […]
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Broadening the Champions League Footprint
September 16th, 2015 · No Comments · Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Champions League, Football, NFL, soccer, The National, UAE
The European Champions League is a very big deal in most of the world. Especially once we get down to the group stage, which boasts 32 of the best club teams in Europe — which generally means 32 of the best teams in the world. We at The National hold deadline an additional 90 minutes, […]
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The Weird Baseball of September
September 11th, 2015 · No Comments · Abu Dhabi, Angels, Baseball, Dodgers, NFL, The National
The game we know from April through August changes markedly the final month of the season, due to Major League Baseball’s roster expansion. Limited to 25 players for the first five months, they can add eight, nine, 10, 15 extra players beginning on September 1, which allows for more one-dimensional players and a lot more […]
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