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Welp, that’s it for today, folks. Enjoy the Skills Competition, which, like the Home Run Derby in baseball, is far more enjoyable than the All-Star Game itself.
Brooks posits that the Big Easy should play host to the NBA All-Star Game every year. I have a hard time arguing with his reasoning, especially with the amount of a humanitarian angle the league has been trying to play up with its coverage.
The Big Easy needs the business, the NBA needs a nice PR play, and the city has a favorable demographic and facility for the game. Perfect fit.
What’s the point of playing the damn thing in Portland or Minneapolis or Denver when most of the city doesn’t care? That wouldn’t be the case in New Orleans.
No All-Star Game in Memphis? I won’t hear it!
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The Falcons yesterday parted ways with seven players, including four-time Pro Bowl tight end Alge Crumpler and quarterback Byron Leftwich, who has capped a rapid descent from starting quarterback to journeyman with an unsure future.
Leftwich was surprisingly cast off the Jaguars the week before the regular season started, then failed to beat out Joey Harrington for the starting spot in Atlanta, which pretty clearly spells the effective end of your career as anything approaching a top-flight QB.
Oddly enough, it’s Ravens fans - surely content with the stellar QB play their team is producing - who are most pleased with this development, as the team nearly traded up to take Leftwich in 2003, but opted to stay put and take Kyle Boller and Terrell Suggs. Well, uh, I, um, see your point, Bawlmer folks. ‘Cause… BOLLER! YEAH!
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It’s two weeks after Losergate (or, if you will, Super Bowl XLII) and people are still making a hue and cry over cheating charges leveled at the now-humbled Patriots. The latest comes from former Rams player Willie Gary and two Rams season ticket holders, who are suing the Pats, seeking $100 million and a portion of Robert Kraft’s stake in Russian petrodollars because the Pats taped the Rams walkthrough the day prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.
Thankfully, certain other, far more awesome, teams are taking their Patriots pwnage with a touch more dignity. This lawsuit, of course, is another bold stride toward the eventual state in which every pro sports championship will be like major elections, subject to cries of recalls, legal challenges and boring me to tears.
What might especially stick in the craw of Patriots fans is that these people are suing on behalf of them also.
The lawsuit requests class action status for three classes:
All Rams players, coaches, staff and employees of the 2002 Super Bowl team.
The 72,922 fans who attended the game.
All owners of St. Louis seat licenses in the 2001 and 2002 season.
That’s right. Because all 72,922 people who attended that game were Rams fans, right? C’mon, St. Louis, we’re enjoying having the moral high ground over Patriots fans. Don’t screw this up for us.
