Here’s what those trying to annually grow the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open need to recognize: Crazy isn’t needed. Consistency is.
Ed Graney
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Now is when we see if all the talk about experience and attitude and determination is true.
The word from Corvallis is that Jacquizz Rodgers is a busy guy who doesn’t get all that excited about interviews. At least that’s the word an Oregon State media relations department official offered Monday.
It doesn’t matter which voter from The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll said it. The message is far more important, because it again cuts to a reality of how many continue to buy into that cartel known as Bowl Championship Series.
“It was 8:53 a.m. when we began talking. He told me he had broken off with his employees. They had gone down an express elevator to the ground level, and he had gone back to get some personal effects. For whatever reason, he just went back.
I am not sure when Sacramento State coaches decided it was best not to throw much against UNLV on Saturday night. It might have been when Hornets quarterback Jason Smith’s second attempt was a one-hopper on an 8-yard out that James Loney would have struggled to field.
Mike Sanford insists he is going to stay off the field more during games this season, which is a good thing considering UNLV’s football team has an opportunity to flirt with its first winning record since 2000.
In a time where the sounds of Friday night football seem more magical each fall — marching bands playing, cheerleaders cheering, fans clapping, coaches screaming, players shouting words of support — Adam Finlayson of Faith Lutheran hears none of it.
I don’t believe any college football program follows the weekly 20-hour limit of “football activities” to the second. I don’t believe any program follows the offseason limit of eight hours per week.
They should have known that when 9/11 struck terror into this nation and Nick Paris put on his official little police uniform to set up a lemonade stand with his older sister, there was something special about him.
Six weeks. Six months. Doesn’t matter. When entering into contract negotiations for securing your lot in life as a college football bowl game, specific facts always determine your fate.
The Northwest Girls Softball League held its fall draft the past few days, and more than 800 players were distributed among nearly 80 teams.
They issued one of those excessive heat warnings Friday, advising of temperatures that could reach 110 degrees.
Acting UNLV President Neal Smatresk, a selfless, intelligent, determined, logical sort of guy, will use all of those traits to search for a new athletic director now that Mike Hamrick is returning to the same position at Marshall, his alma mater.
They had a news conference at Planet Hollywood on Tuesday to film an upcoming episode of “Shaq VS,” the new program in which NBA center Shaquille O’Neal spends his offseason challenging other professional athletes in their own sports. The opposition in this specific challenge is Oscar De La Hoya. It was announced beforehand that De La Hoya is “semi-retired,” meaning whoever wrote that line didn’t see the guy’s last fight. There is nothing semi about it, if he wants to live a long, healthy life. News conference is too strong a description for what occurred Tuesday. Far too official. It was more circus without elephants but plenty of clowns.
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