The Bears face the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday at Soldier Field during the NFC divisional round. The winner heads to the NFC Championship game against either the Atlanta Falcons or the Green Bay Packers. The Bears surprisingly lost to the Seahawks back in week 6 in the regular season. This time around this game has [...]
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Just a few random Rafael Soriano thoughts bouncing through my head while I listen to this four-song Black Dub performance for roughly the 20th time in the past four days. • While I’m not sure an eighth-inning reliever is worth this much money, I’ll agree that the money is a non-issue for 2011. The Yankees …
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So by now you’ve all heard the news I’m sure. You know, the whole Andrew Luck, probable number one pick will be returning to Stanford for his redshirt junior season. A lot of news causes ripples, this was a tidal wave type shocker on several different fronts. The NFL community was dumbfounded by the man’s return to college football when he seemed to be the most pro ready quarterback since Peyton Manning. The college community was torn as a star quarterback came back to school and while it was good for the game, was it really good for the kid.
In all of this the Carolina Panther fans’ response was the most “Finebaum-esque” in their hilarious lack of perspective but equally appalling anger at a kid that never even was guaranteed to their team. I tuned into Charlotte local radio and it has been alternating between “woe is us” attitudes, “we hate you Jerry Richardson” sentiments and of course the “how could he do this to us” resentment.
There is plenty to be said, plenty has already been written about Luck and his decision to return to school. Some folks have called it flat out stupid already. Some have bought into the actual idea that education is the reason he chose to return to Stanford. Some have tossed out the idea that Luck and family wanted to avoid the Panthers even as his father tried to bury those rumors.
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Let’s talk about Michael Vick for a minute. Recently he’s taken a lot of criticism. Some of that is absolutely warranted. Some is silly hyperbole. Let’s stick with what we actually know. Vick exploded on the scene earlier in the…
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