Thursday, August 23, 2007

Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

A few links from a day of perusing the wire:

No one said life in the NFL was easy, especially for a guy playing in the most spotlighted position in the second biggest market in the league.

But does Chicago Bears' quarterback Rex Grossman really need to read this?

So Bears' fans are getting frustrated with their embattled pivot who, despite leading his team to the Super Bowl last season, has never really evoked confidence from the Windy City faithful.



Michael Vick needs some help, we can all be in agreement on that, but I'm not so sure this was what he was needing.

Perhaps it's Starbury that could use a little PR tutorial.


I get winded cheering at football games and this guy is trying out for an NCAA team?

I'm sure I'll be doing the same when I'm 59.


Finally, would be remiss to not mention this record-breaking effort from the Texas Rangers Wednesday night.

When a game story moves on the wire it generally has a slug (file name) like "BC-AMN-Tex-Bal", indicating it's an American League game between Texas and Baltimore.

In cases where a story has a historical context and is, for lack of a better term, Must See TV, the slug is something like "BC-Bonds-Homers, URGENT."

So when the URGENT tag was attached to a game story — after all, how often is a game between two non-playoff deadbeats really of a pressing matter? — only two explanations sprung to mind: Jarrod Saltalamacchia had killed someone with a line-drive to the head or ... well, that was about it. Someone must've died.

Thankfully for the people of Baltimore, the only casualty was the slow death they experienced while watching the visiting team put up 30 unanswered on their local nine.

Perhaps the Chicago Sun Times can be enlisted to teach Paul Shuey how to throw a ball.

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