Someone get a wooden stake and a mallet. This Brett Favre creature won’t die! You think it’s gone and buried … and back it comes. Once the sun goes down, and we can see the dark days of winter not all that far from us … back Favre comes to prey on pro football players […]

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I bet on sports, basically, never. I’ve never placed a bet in Las Vegas. I haven’t spent one minute in/at a sports book. I don’t know a bookie. (Or, at least, I don’t think I know a bookie.) I can’t tell you what the point spread is on any game I’m not covering, and I […]

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Michael Vick seems to be Topic A today in American sports. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback has been signed by the Philadelphia Eagles and will be eligible to play in the preseason — and in the regular season, as well, once he serves a six-game NFL suspension. This is a hot-button topic for, basically, two […]

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Good. He’s old, his arm is shot, and the I’m-leaving-I’m-back thing is really, really old. Can we safely assume we won’t hear about this anymore? Probably not. A link to the news story, if you can stand it. Supply your own weeping and snuffling.

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I was mulling the whole idea of fandom, and team affinity, and how fairly random it is — most of it being based on geography or heredity. How we can love a guy when he wears our team’s uniform and hate him when he doesn’t, meaning we ultimately are rooting for or against, as Jerry […]

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DJ Gallo is espn.com’s resident humorist. Well, actually, I don’t know that he works for them full-time, which is what a “resident” would do, since he also does a sports satire site that goes by the name of sportspickle.com Doesn’t seem like you’d run your own humor Web site if someone else were paying you […]

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Two guys I spent a fair amount of time with in press boxes/workrooms died in the past few days. Bob Oates, longtime pro football writer for the Los Angeles Times. David Poole, veteran NASCAR writer for the Charlotte Observer. Poole was something of a NASCAR legend. Oates wasn’t far behind, among NFL reporters. I wasn’t […]

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Now and then, people contact me about endorsing the idea, and spreading it, of pushing for this or that guy to get into a sports Hall of Fame. One particular baseball stat wonk is a Bert Blyleven enthusiast, and he has written me a time or three about voting for Bert for the baseball Hall […]

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Yes, I ranted about the NFL draft a year ago, and I am just so grateful I don’t have to pay any attention to this thing. That wasn’t the case for the first 17, 18 years of my journalism career, when Los Angeles had at least one NFL franchise (the Rams), and sometimes two (the […]

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I should have included this on my John Madden post, below … This is comedian Frank Caliendo on the Late Show with David Letterman, doing an entire “interview” in his John Madden persona … And try to tell me that isn’t how Madden actually sounded. And now I recall why Madden apparently didn’t think this […]

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