Less than 24 hours after severing ties with Larry Brown, the Detroit Pistons agreed to a contract with new head-coach Flip Saunders. With a 4-year, $20 million contract, you have to admire Saunders for his courage…or is it stupidity?
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Summer’s Annual Itch – Matt Waters
It’s a distant sound in the back of my mind, hibernating, but still resonating. My focus lies with Baseball, as it always has and always will during these scorching summer months, playing out as poetry in motion over the course of it’s 162 game climb to the play offs and beyond. But still, that itch persists. And as I begin to scratch, the memories come fast and furious comparable to a high -speed collision near the sideline during the fourth quarter of a tie game. My mind travels to the Leon Johnson half back pass and stills asks Why Bill Why? It looks mournfully at the Richie Anderson fumble and bemoans a lost Super Bowl dream. It surveys Vinny Testaverde’s Achilles injury on week one like a rubber necking motorist trapped in an endless traffic jam. It tours past Raiders and Ravens ending Jets’ seasons of the past, wrapped together in one dark collage. And then there’s Doug Brien. He owns a wing of torment all his own. Finally, escaping the past, my mind turns to the future, and one question stills continues to be asked, even in the heat of the most unpredictable Yankee season since 1995. Is this the year the Jets finally get it right? The punctuation is not usually a question mark, but rather a twisting football careening through the air off the foot of Doug Brien, destined to go laughably wide.
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Defending my Generation – Matt Waters
One has to admire Bob Costas. Not only is he one of the foremost recognizable personalities from the world of sports journalism, he is without a doubt the most technically sound and proficient studio host to ever lay eyes on a teleprompter.
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The Sheffield Saga
For the past two days the New York Media has been infatuated with the idea of the Yankees possibly dealing Gary Sheffield. For the most part, Yankee fans have been outraged and why shouldn’t they be? Sheffield has proven himself as a “Yankee,” and after a season which landed him second in the MVP voting, he has come back again with a first-half only out done by Alex Rodriguez’s gargantuan start. So why would the Yankees, who season has already been the definition of tumultuous rock the boat even more? Is there something we are missing. All I know is that throughout the year Sheffield has not seemed happy. You only have to look to this past Sunday to see the culmination of Sheff’s frustration. It will be interesting to see how this situation unfolds and how the anger Sheffield displayed after hearing the trade rumors will affect his production.
by Trevor Freeman
As I was sifting through a magazine stand about a week ago, I made one of my favorite discoveries. That’s right, I came across a college football preview magazine. You know what that means folks………we are almost there. I can almost feel Boise State marching into Georgia; I can almost see Texas and The Ohio State University hooking up in what should be a thriller. Remember when Bernard Hopkins called out Roy Jones and said to him, “Roy if you’re not going to fight me, then you have to ask yourself. Are you really a fighter?” Well, if you don’t enjoy the intensity, atmosphere, and feel of college football then you have to ask yourself. Are you really a football fan?
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Oh No- Not Kwame!!
Will the impending trade for Kwame Brown restore the Laker organiztion to greatness. I doubt it. This acquistion might be the worst in Laker history, and here’s why.
By Adam Nelson
Will New England make it four titles in five years? Will Philadelphia make it five straight NFC Championship appearances? Is “Big Ben” for real? A lot of questions remain to be answered concerning the 2005 NFL season. Here are my preseason rankings for the teams as they head into the new year:
As most of you know, last year there was a lot of BCS controversy. There were three teams with perfect records, USC, Oklahoma and Auburn. The controversy was on which two teams should go to the National Championship. The BCS said that USC and Oklahoma should go and it had a lot of people outraged. One of the main reasons for this problem was the pre-season polls.
Hours after plans were revealed for the World Baseball Classic, a World Cup-style event that would feature 16 nations in tournament play, Gary Sheffield of the New York Yankees weighed in on the announcement.
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NFL Preview 2005 – AFC East
With NFL training camps just a few weeks away, and the start of the regular season two months away, it’s time to begin previewing the NFL season. I’ll start with the AFC East.