It’s great to be a Boston sports fan right now. It’s kick-you-in-the-pants, kiss-the-homecoming-queen, twiril-a-baton-in-one-hand-drink-a-beer-with-the-other greatness.
Two things, though, are not so peachy in New England.
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A letter to Joe Pa
By Sean Quinn
Dear Coach Paterno,
I’m not very good at this letter writing stuff, but I felt one was necessary. I know you’re a busy guy with the season just a month away but I just had a quick question: would you be my grandpa?
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Blame Bruce for setting a higher standard
By Sean Quinn
Juergen Klinsmann seems like a fine coach. Klinsmann seems like a good man. But so is Rumpelstilskin. And whether the next coach of Team USA is the former leader of the German National Team or the mythical German dwarf doesn’t really matter. Coaching doesn’t matter right now. Players matter and for America, unlike the rest of the world, our best athletes aren’t playing soccer. And until they do don’t expect anymore progress from our national team.
By Sean Quinn
Part of it was George Mason. OK, a lot of it was George Mason. Still, long before the Patriots slipped on the glass slipper, nobody was rooting for the Connecticut Huskies – not even themselves.
The Huskies had as much talent as any team in the country, but they were as heartless as the girls that rejected me in high school.
By Sean Quinn
It was never Gerry McNamara’s fault. A player with his heart doesn’t get motivated by some meaningless newspaper articles. He was already motivated, has been since his days in Scranton, Pa. The attacks on the Orange’s leader, though, was the kick in the pants that woke up his surrounding cast.
It’s nice to finally see Darryl Watkins reading something other than Marmaduke.
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American highs and lows from Torino
By Sean Quinn
Americans are feeling about as empty as the medals themselves now that the Winter Olympics are over. They came and went about as fast as a Ben Affleck movie. For two weeks, we watched odd sports performed by athletes and just regular folk. Our eastern European geography lesson is over, as is our craving for curling.
Unfortunately the events are over, but Avril Lavigne is still singing, or at least attempting to. Whether we related to a Home Depot employee or an athletic icon, we did so on delayed time.
We have to slip back into our boring, non-Olympic society, and we’ll have to settle for March Madness. Here are some of the best and worst from Italy.
By Sean Quinn
Trix may be for kids, but tricks are still for the NFL. Gadgets are for late-night infomercials on E-TV, The Technology Channel. So when talking to your colleagues tomorrow at the water cooler, don’t call Antwaan Randle El’s 43-yard touchdown throw to Hines Ward a gadget play, declare it a trick play.
By Sean Quinn
Syracuse has had to work hard for its nine-game winning streak and 12-2 record, but entering the toughest conference play in the country the Orange have to work a lot harder.
Jim Boeheim insists playing the 48th toughest non-conference schedule in the country has prepared his team for the Big East season. The Orange need more than preparedness, though, to be successful against a conference that hosts three teams in the top 10 – it needs consistency. And that starts with Gerry McNamara and Terrence Roberts.
By Sean Quinn
Vince Young’s game-winning 9-yard touchdown run with 19 seconds left in the game wasn’t just great, it was clutch. That run, though, as impressive as it was, didn’t win the game for the Longhorns. Young’s game, which accumulated in a BCS game record 467 yards of total offense, only contributed to Texas’ 41-38 win over USC in the Rose Bowl. It was USC’s unprecedented unforced errors and coaching that snapped the Trojans’ 34-game winning streak and gave the Longhorns’ lone star the brightness of sunny Pasadena.
By Sean Quinn
The San Diego Chargers, not the New England Patriots, not Tom Brady, not the apparent next Messiah Tedy Bruschi, handed the Indianapolis Colts their first loss of the season Sunday. The Colts showed imperfections in their offense and severe blemishes in their secondary that would be difficult for Proactiv Solution to even attempt to clean up in time for the playoffs. The Colts, though, are still the frontrunners for the Super Bowl title and should be afraid of the dark before they are frightened by the New England Patriots.