Some sports stories I've neglected to mention in the last few days:
- Here’s another “SportsCenter Sucks” piece. The groundswell is growing…
- Here’s Batgirl on why the Twins can’t draw 2 million.
- Emmitt Smith, the NFL’s all-time leading rusher, is retiring from football and will join Reggie Fowler’s group that is trying to purchase the Vikings from Red McCombs. Excellent move- Kirby Puckett recently left the Twin Cities to move to the Phoenix area, so it’s good that we’re getting back a future Hall of Famer in another sport. At any rate, I’m rooting for both Fowlers- Reggie to be Vikings owner, and Donnie to be DNC chairman.
- Anyone see that Page Six item about Peyton Manning sulking in a Manhattan nightspot along with his wife, a few days after the Colts lost to the Patriots? Here’s the best part:
And when it came time to pay the bill, the wife said she would put it on her credit card since it is the same account, and he said, 'Believe me, I know.' "When you sign for $98 million, that means quite a lot of shopping for the wife. But I wonder if Mrs. Manning knows that NFL contracts aren’t guaranteed.
- Jason Whitlock wrote a truly bizarre column last Friday, even by Whitlock standards. The first third was about why TO shouldn’t play, while the second third was about why Andy Reid gets no respect because he’s fat. And the third? It was about Whitlock’s struggles as a BBW (Big Beautiful Writer), and it even tossed in this photo. All I can say is, Jason should be proud of himself for beating out Clay Aiken to win the second season of “American Idol.”
- And finally, how come we haven’t heard anything about whether or not Terrell Owens is going to play in the Super Bowl? Some enterprising reporter should really look into that.
Posted by Stephen Silver at February 1, 2005 09:32 PM