Tony Romo soon to represent group of oil tycoons

October 1, 2007

>> According to the folks at Football Guys, Tony Romo (he’s so hot right now) will soon benefit from being the first player Jerry Jones decided to wait on paying (anyone remember those contracts for Drew Henson and Quincy Carter?  Yowch). No word on whether Romo will represent a group of oil tycoons who make […]

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Oh, that’s REAL mature

September 29, 2007

>> Let’s get this straight: Coach Greg Ryan is responding to his clearly wrongheaded choice to bench  US keeper Hope Solo by…continuing to bench Hope Solo? Even after it became clear that Solo was incited to lash out at his decision by a rude order from PR flack Aaron Heifetz? Yeesh – as Rome said […]

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T. Boone Pickens Wins Bets

September 28, 2007

>> No, it’s not how he got rich – but consarnit, T. Boone Pickens wins bets.

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The Underrated Brett Favre

September 28, 2007

It sounds ludicrous, I know. How can a quarterback as lauded as Brett Favre – ESPN darling, king of the endorsement scene (well, til Manning came along), John Madden’s numero uno mancrush – actually be an underrated quarterback? Well, that’s easy. With Favre about to set the all-time touchdown passing record, every talking head is […]

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The Coach is Killing Me

September 26, 2007

>> Chargers fans, get used to it.  I grew up with the horrible Norv Turner as an ever-present destructive force of pathetic idiocy, crushing all of my dreams for nearly a decade of Sundays.  This is going to get worse before it gets better.

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Sorry for the interruption

September 14, 2007

After getting off to a good start, this site – and all of my others – went down thanks to the little Jatol happening. While I had backed up most of my work on other sites, this one was only two months old, and I hadn’t yet – so I lost most of what I’d […]

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Game On

September 14, 2007

As the NFL season returns to us after the longest offseason in professional sports, let’s stop to give credit to the players in tonight’s opener not named Manning, Bush, Harrison, Brees, Wayne or Freeney. Let’s hear it for Ross Tucker, an undrafted offensive lineman whose career opened and closed with the Washington Redskins, writes his […]

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Passive Instruments and Fine China

September 14, 2007

As most of you know, I worked in the White House Speechwriting Office during the summer of 2002 as an intern – doing research, acting as support staff for the lead speechwriters, and contributing here and there – prior to joining the Administration as a speechwriter for Tommy Thompson in the fall. So at first, […]

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Podcast Number One

September 14, 2007

>> Josh hosted a podcast with Hunter Baker and myself on issues of faith and public life. Listen to it here.

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Hail to the Skins

September 14, 2007

>> Don’t look now, but the famous Football Outsiders DVOA ratings have the Washington Redskins making a significant improvement this season, mostly based on third down performance issues. Read it, and know that MLB fans don’t have a monopoly on stat geekery.

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