The best word to describe Jim Steffen is tenacious. Steffen was a defensive back for the Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins during an NFL career that lasted seven seasons.
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I Can Win Olympic Basketball Gold
by Jonathan Ragus
The Olympics are long over and gone with. But the memory is still intact at how awful American basketball fans felt watching this years Olympic games. There were many things to talk about from doping scandals to a wrestler refusing to fight an Israeli wrestler, only to come into the match overweight. And you’d think with headliners like this that American people would forget all about basketball. But that’s not the case.
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Greg Oden vs Derrick Caracter
News and Notes from this years ABCD Camp highlighting the best high school talent in the country.
This is a preview of the Division III Whittenberg Tigers and thier outlook for the upcoming season. The Tigers are the most sucessfull program in D-III and are looking to add to thier lore.
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Pedro finds a father on the field
Who is Pedro Martinez’s daddy? Aside from who will be the next president, that was the question on the tip of everybody’s tongue last week after the Boston ace muttered to reporters, “What can I say? I tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.”
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NFL Week 4 Power Rankings
What a boring week in the NFL. The only game that even came close to living up to expectations was the Colts-Jaguars. After almost falling asleep during the late games, I rallied hard and was faced with St. Louis vs San Francisco? Even in the interest of journalism, I was barely able to watch that game. The shootout between Omar and Barksdale’s crew on The Wire was much better than anything the Rams and Niners could put together. Poor ESPN. The good news is that Mike Patrick is back next week.
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Fans’ Guide to Playoff Insanity
By Ryan McGowan
A little over a week ago, I was in Ann Arbor, visiting this guy Bill, one of Jennifer’s friends from New Hampshire who is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan. Bill wanted to take us to the Big House to see a Michigan-Iowa game, and since my appreciation of big-time college football had previously been limited to a few NC State games and such Division 1-AA epic wars as Hofstra vs. Northeastern, I was salivating at the chance to experience a real college game, amid 111,000 spectators at a packed-to-the-gills Michigan Stadium.
Perhaps Marcus Coleman should have been cast as Forrest Gump because on Sunday at Arrowhead he just kept running and running and running. Not even Priest Holmes, who became the all-time leading rusher in Chiefs history could catch him. It’s quite possible that Tom Hanks himself would have trouble catching up to Coleman. Eventually, though, Coleman stopped…when he reached the end zone. Now we all expected something like this from the Kansas City defense, but when your offense starts giving up touchdowns to the opposition, you know you’re in a heap of trouble. Not even Hollywood could have scripted an 0-3 start for the Chiefs.
When a casual Redskins fan is asked to name former running backs with the team he would probably call out Larry Brown, John Riggins, Earnest Byner, Steven Davis. Many may not remember A.D. Whitfield.
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The Dolphins Need to Clean Up
As I prepared and waited all year, starting from January of this year until September, I had excitement built for the 2004 football season. Starting January and continuing through the summer months, I was very excited for my team and how they will perform this year because of some good pickups. Then with one decision by one man, the season and the organization really took a downhill turn and it is rolling quickly down to the bottom as the season is moving along. My excitement turned to worrying and then move after move helped improve that and built my hope high up until kickoff, but now as the season is three weeks in, the season is basically over because of bad moves in the off season having more to do with the front office and not as much to do with Ricky Williams leaving. The time to start cleaning up and getting rid of some bad parts is after this season, too bad that it’s a few too late.