It was a huge deal. Dan was in town because he couldn't get a flight back to Ireland since the volcano had shut down a lot of flights. He was losing his mind. Because of the limits in the CBA, they were talking about how the team could suspend him for a season... like they'd have to suspend him for so many games, then put him on the non-football reserve list after that ran out.

Stores were marking down his jersey, some of them were like ten bucks. Other stores were returning the jerseys to warehouses. Lots of fans were mailing them to the team's offices or burning them in their yards and stuff.

Then Goodell came in and said that the league would have to handle any punishment. Seems the fear was that anything that a team did would (or at least could) be contested by the NFLPA, especially if it involved finagling a full season and the paycheck that goes with it, and that would set a bad precedent for other teams dealing with a similar situation.

Big Ben really has worked hard to rehab his image. Well, at least he stopped being a cad in local bars.

Kraft was content to keep his peace when it seemed likely the Pats would get a 4th.

Might be worth checking out. Watching Harrison getting ready for his first season as an AFC North rival of the Steelers is going to be like the Rocky IV training montage.

Not exactly relevant, but Leary went from stand-up to starring in movies to TV and back to movies. He was pretty good in Demolition Man, and he was hysterical in The Ref (the one Xmas movie I have to see every year).

If we look at it as "graduating" from TV to movies, then I guess Operation Dumbo Drop was like failing to complete his thesis in time and having to repeat his degree?

I'm strangely biased, though. If a coach lacks the discipline to keep himself healthy, it's hard for me to take him seriously and I imagine it affects the locker room.

And all Rex did was set an example that taking the easy way out is perfectly acceptable. What kind of lesson does *that* send to his players?

Opiate addiction = asterisk on "ironman" record.

$30 million guaranteed, to run rather quickly in a fairly straight line.

As long as they don't want more than that .... you know, something like catching more than half the balls thrown his way? .... it's a great deal for Miami.

Really though, it's his own fault. I'm sure he had very important things to deal with, and I figure he'll get another job. But he had to see this coming when he chose anything else over his team.

Sounds like the season is starting to seem a little long for him. Hate to think about it, but to be fair it's been a long, long time since he's had a complete, healthy season so I can't say I blame him.

For most people in this country, the name has no negative racial connotations anyway. And for the ones who do discriminate against Native Americans, it's not like changing the name of a football team is going to suddenly open their eyes.

British subjects sabotaged shipping and goaded the King's soldiers into violent conflict. With the NFL eying a franchise in London, should the Patriots be banned?

Piracy costs the global economy more than $10 billion a year, and led to 3500 hostage situations and almost a hundred deaths. Should Tampa Bay have to change their name?

Closer to home, thousands of workers lost their jobs and their pensions when the steel industry collapsed. Before that, workers trying to get better conditions at the mills faced armed opposition from the Pinkertons with full legal protection from the governor. Should such a terrible reminder of that dark time in Pittsburgh's history be glorified for 5 months every year?

It's ridiculous. Haters gonna hate. Doesn't matter what these teams are called. There's no reason to force a team to abandon its name or its colors.

Whatever other problems he caused, and despite how bad the team was, Owens still had almost a thousand yards and 9 TDs with the Bengals. If those two knuckleheads had been able to keep their mouths shut, they might have been able to sneak their tickets into the Andy Dalton sweepstakes.

Although the idea of Green, Johnson, and Owens isn't something I'd have liked to see in the AFC North, so I'm glad that they did themselves in.

If she *didn't* want to give him jail time...

Too many edits, not enough re-reading.

If she wanted to give him jail time for the domestic, that's fine. (I disagree, but whatevs.) Refusing at the plea deal just because of his response to her questions seems a bit excessive.

In court, unless they're entering testimony the judge should only ask the client enough questions to make sure he understands the proceedings. The reason they pay big bucks to the attorney is so they don't have any mistakes.

And his lawyer raises a good point. Johnson didn't just spontaneously reach over and pat his lawyer's butt. The judge told Chad that his attorney did a very good job on Chad's behalf, and he should thank his attorney.

I remember reading the same general thing earlier today. I thought it was on B/R but I can't find it now. One of the things they mentioned was that he hadn't caught a pass in high school or college. And they had a gif of Tebow getting plunked in the head by the Sanchize.

To be fair, playing receiver in the NFL is something that takes a fair level of skill and talent. That's why the guys who can get millions.

That may be true, but the one thing I'm pretty sure the Pats have their own plan for dealing with the media.

Once they realize that they can't cause the kind of drama in Foxborough that they bought into in East Rutherford, they'll eventually give up.

Earlier I had said his best chance would be if he ended up with the Pats or the Steelers. They're both very good at controlling the message when it comes to the media. Very few other teams have that kind of discipline.

This gives Tebow a chance to show that he's not a problem in the locker room, or a distraction off the field. Belichek will keep him around for a while, let him win some preseason games, ride the pine or get into some garbage time, and then next year trade him to a team that was interested (but scared off by the circus) for a 3 or a 4.

This shouldn't even be news. It should just the standard, league-wide. There's 7-8 months every year for paperwork.

This is the 3rd time he's been drafted in the MLB. (2007 after high school, 2010 after college, 2013 after a failed physical)

*Dallas Clark looks hopefully at his phone.*

I love the idea of more cold weather Super Bowls.

"On the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field..."

Either the product outlived the codeine ban, or it wasn't codeine to begin with. At any rate, in 1972, it was lemon, honey, and dextromethorphan. You can still buy cough syrups with DXM, sometimes they're behind the counter at the pharmacy though.