Sports Briefs
Sports Briefs
Pomeroy Daily Sentinel - All kicking tees and footballs will be provided and contestants must wear tennis shoes, no football cleats allowed. Winners of each age group will be eligible to compete in sectional competition in October with a chance to advance to a Cincinnati
Are We Our Commenter s Keepers?
MediaChannel.org - Relatedly, how about a serious takeout on all the vile, bigoted, bloodthirsty comments you see at sites like Little Green Footballs? The other day, hapless wingnut Charles Johnson put up a post at LGF which contained a photo of leaders from Iran and
today’s blogs
Slate - Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs , who was among the first to question the legitimacy of the infamous memos, scolds Rather and his lawyers for continuing to assert that the documents could have been real. “And for Dan Rather to continue
O.J.’S COURT APPEARANCE: Simpson back in Florida Ex-NFL star hears
Las Vegas Review Journal - They took footballs signed by Simpson and other collectibles, including lithographs of fellow NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana, authorities said. North Las Vegas resident Bruce Fromong, who owned the memorabilia, told police he went to the hotel to meet
Tuesday, October 31
Spokane Spokesman-Review - So Adam Morrison (XBox360 cover pictured; courtesy of EA Sports) is going to be the cover boy of EA Sports NCAA March Madness 2007. Is that a good thing or bad thing? So far there hasn’t been a cover jinx, a la Madden Football, but who knows? Shaun
Key witness in Simpson robbery case arrested in Las Vegas
San Diego Union-Tribune - Beardsley is one of two sports memorabilia collectors accusing Simpson and other men of barging into a hotel room Thursday and stealing autographed footballs and other sports memorabilia. He was sought on a California warrant issued Saturday for a
Simpson is released after posting bail
Boston Globe - Thomas Riccio, a California auctioneer, has said he arranged the meeting between Simpson and collectors Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong, who had possession of signed baseballs and game footballs, among other items. Riccio surreptitiously tape
Simpson charged in robbery
Detroit Free Press - Some of the missing goods, including autographed footballs, were turned in Monday by Stewart, 53, of Las Vegas, before he was released on bail. Alexander, 46, of Mesa, Ariz., said Tuesday that Simpson may have been tricked because another memorabilia
Dan Rodricks
Baltimore Sun - While natives can attest to seeing him throw footballs at Memorial Stadium — or buy shirts at Hamburger’s — my experience was limited to what I saw, until about 1969, on black-and-white television. On sad anniversary, a lesson for the kids September
Fact-checking the DOG
Arkansas Times - I read everything on those two pages every day to be sure I know what the latest Rove-Mehlman talking points are (odd how the same stuff shows up on Powerline and Little Green Footballs). But Gitz’s column today took me aback. What he’s saying is