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8:05 AM, Oct 20, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANIt wasn’t that long ago that the National Football League – the jewel of professional sports – appeared to be in serious trouble, if not real decline.
Read more... 5:37 PM, Oct 11, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANThe debate tonight between Representative Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden could be a game changer ... or not. The usual media suspects are all over the debate with analysis and predictions that may, or may not, prove helpful. Hard to recall anyone who divined how the debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney turned out. The pattern here is that we are told what to expect and then, when the unexpected happens, told why we should have expected it all along.
Read more... 8:23 PM, Oct 1, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERHall of Fame quarterback John Elway endorsed Mitt Romney ahead of Wednesday's presidential debate in Colorado.
Read more... 10:25 AM, Sep 26, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANSeems like everybody has now seen it, either when it happened (that would be in "real time") or on replay. Even players who benefitted from the call agree that the Packers got hosed. The remedy?
Read more... 3:01 PM, Sep 25, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe White House weighed in on the blown call that cost the Green Bay Packers the football game last night against the Seattle Super Hawks. Via the pool report, from aboard Air Force One:
Read more... 1:10 PM, Aug 30, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANThis is Mitt Romney's big night. The people who understand American politics and make a living explaining its mysteries to the rest of us have said so, over and over, and it is hard not to agree. Governor Romney needs to go long with his acceptance speech and go into the campaign with momentum on his side. He cannot play defense. Cannot punt. And, certainly, cannot afford to fumble.
Read more... 12:00 AM, Aug 20, 2012 • By STEPHEN F. HAYESEphraim, Wisc. At an appearance last week at a high school in Cascade, Iowa, a half hour drive from the Wisconsin border, Barack Obama told the crowd gathered to see him that he’d take questions from anyone who had one. There was one exception – a gentleman wearing a Green Bay Packers t-shirt.
Read more... 9:24 AM, Apr 16, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANTim Tebow attended a Yankees game last night at the Stadium (if you are a Yankees fan, there is only one "stadium") where the fans booed him. This, despite the fact that he was wearing a Yankees cap and did not, so far as the news stories go, take a knee or quote scripture or throw a wounded duck that missed the open man. Just sat in his seat, like a well-behaved fan, and watched the ball game.
Read more... Peyton Manning to the Broncos.9:35 AM, Mar 20, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANThe Peyton Manning tour has evidently ended in Denver, where he will play for the Broncos, and one almost wishes it could have gone on a little longer. It was a nice relief from that other road show we hear so much about—namely, the presidential campaign.
Read more... 11:01 AM, Feb 7, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANSo now they have gone and politicized the Super Bowl ads. Have they no shame?
Everyone is familiar with the Chrysler spot that has Clint Eastwood walking ominously dark streets, talking about how America is down and hurting, but we’ve been here before and this is just halftime. We will be coming back. Included in that “we” is “the Motor City,” because this is a commercial about Chrysler cars, which are built in Detroit (by a company that is mostly Italian-owned but never mind).
Read more... 11:01 AM, Oct 30, 2011 • By WILLIAM C. MARRAWhen Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu suffered concussion-like symptoms in a recent NFL game, he did what any decent husband might do: He walked to the sideline and called his wife Theodora to tell her he was fine. Polamalu, like so many football players, has a long history of concussions, so surely his wife would have been relieved to hear from her husband.
Read more... 9:06 PM, Oct 1, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONIn Annapolis today, Air Force and Navy met on “the fields of friendly strife.” With 10:00 left in the game, Air Force led 28-10, having more or less dominated play for the first 50 minutes. With 2:09 left, the Falcons still led 28-17. Then Navy nailed a must-make 37-yard field goal, recovered the ensuing onside kick, scored a touchdown on 3rd-and-goal with 0:19 left, and made the subsequent 2-point conversion on an option pitch just inside the left pylon: 28-28, overtime.
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