The Bucs hired private investigators to check out Winston, who’d been accused of, but not charged with, sexual assault. Twice he was exonerated by prosecutors, and once by the university after a probe by a Florida state supreme court justice found insufficient evidence to charge Winston with sexual assault. This was a great test of […]
Continue reading →It’s like watching the great Rodin sculpt his masterpiece statue The Thinker. Brett Favre barks out the snap count, takes the ball from beneath the center’s meaty sweat-stained haunches, glides back three steps with a gazelle’s effortless lope, deftly rolls towards the sidelines like a Stealth bomber in Baghdad, and with child-like abandon lets fly […]
Continue reading →Here’s what I know about the NFL after three great action-packed weeks…. ITEM: This Favre kid? Up in the Bay of Greenness? He’s gonna work out okay after all. I was headed up to Historic Lambeau Field (gotta include the “Historic” in there, dontcha kinda gotta?) to see the game, but I missed my plane, […]
Continue reading →When the final out was recorded in Monday’s 5-3 Angels win over the Yankees, I looked over and saw Brian Cashman breathe a huge sigh of relief. “Finally feels good, eh, Brian?” I asked. He jumped up, startled. “What? Oh, no! Steelers just went up on San Diego. They win this game, I’m 13-1 in […]
Continue reading →Just after Bruce Springsteen released Devils & Dust, his best album since The Rising and best of the year so far, in April, he and I happened to be at a charity event together in New Jersey. “How do you think Eli Manning will do next year?” I asked him, trying to spark a conversation. […]
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