Any handicapper who pumps up the Oakland Raiders is trying to breathe life into a corpse. There is no resuscitating coach Tom Cable or quarterback JaMarcus Russell, each auditioning to be the NFL’s worst at their respective positions.
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If this is bouncing back, I’d hate to see what UNLV’s football team looks like when it’s not focused.
Effort should be the one guaranteed trait a football player owns. Speed. Strength. Skill. Smarts. You can lack in all of these and still play hard.
As far as coach-quarterback combinations go, it’s tough to beat Bill Belichick and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. If you bet the NFL, you want those two in your corner more often than not.
Injury reports are not officially issued in college football, but we don’t need one to know the status of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who suffered his first concussion two weeks ago.
I got a lot of feedback for my column last week breaking down where the 14 Breeders’ Cup race winners prepped. The final results were: Santa Anita, five; Europe, five; Belmont, Del Mar, Keeneland and Woodbine, one each.
If his son wasn’t a member of the California Redwoods, I might have thought Denzel Washington attended the United Football League’s inaugural game Thursday night to scout talent for a new movie.
You have to love the weather this week. Downright chilly in the early morning and not too hot in the afternoon. That can mean only one thing, folks: It’s time to break out the shotgun and do some bird hunting. Quail and chukar seasons open Saturday, waterfowl on Oct. 17.
I have met UNLV president Neal Smatresk once. I have spoken to him twice. I know he ran track and swam in high school. I know he has a daughter who played soccer and a son who played baseball. I know his wife enjoys watching volleyball.
One of these days, Tony Romo might put the puzzle pieces together and become a complete quarterback. For now, though, the leader of the Dallas Cowboys is perceived as a falling star.
Mike Sanford has to be coaching for his job on a weekly basis now. If he’s not, it will be because his superiors at UNLV have forgotten the most significant rule: the program comes first.
RENO–As the seconds tick down to yet another kickoff for UNLV-UNR football today and some take odds on whether Mike Sanford will enter Mackay Stadium on an elephant to fully experience the circus atmosphere he insists is part of the state rivalry game, it’s important to clear up a few misconceptions regarding the Limited Access Bowl.
Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, there are excellent coaches walking NFL sidelines. Jeff Fisher of the Tennessee Titans is one of them.
As the seasons change and it gets cold on the East Coast, this is when the heat is intensely on Alex Rodriguez. He spends summers knocking the snot out of pitchers but in October falls flat on his face.
Over the next two weekends, most of the Breeders’ Cup horses will prep in stakes races at Belmont Park, Keeneland, Santa Anita Park and beyond. I thought it might be revealing to see where the 14 Breeders’ Cup race winners of 2008 prepped, especially since Santa Anita, where the main track is Pro Ride synthetic surface, is the host site again.
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