Tirico Suave

By now, I’m sure you’ve seen yesterday’s story involving Brett Favre and his “announcement” of retirement that somehow appeared on the Packers’ website erroneously. Well, it’s a slow Friday here at work so I decided to do some investigating and peruse some other NFL teams sites to see if I could find similar mistakes. Turns [...]

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This excerpt from John Clayton’s blog should serve as a nice barometer as to the state of the quarterback position in today’s NFL:

Jeff George, who still doesn’t want to retire, had 18 teams visit him for a workout during the Indianapolis Scouting Combine. George can throw the ball and teams saw that. He hasn’t given [...]

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While Jonathan Vilma is in Detroit taking a physical, I’ll pass along this tidbit from the Chicago Sun-Times for all you Bears fans like Dorn out there:
The Bears still have the three running backs who played last season: Cedric Benson, Adrian Peterson and Garrett Wolfe. Benson, who has pocketed nearly $13.8 million for three years [...]

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Every sports site in the blogosphere is posting this, and rightfully so. I’d might even go as far to say that it’s the best in game dunk I’ve seen since Vince Carter jumped over Frederic Weis.

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When free agency begins Friday, the Jaguars will acquire wide receiver Troy Williamson from the Vikings for a sixth round draft pick, pending a physical and, I presume, after Williamson’s lawyers have a quick glance at Jacksonville’s grieving policy. Once official, the deal will bring to fruition the Jaguars master plan, several years and draft [...]

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I saw this over on the rumors section of profootballtalk.com, which means it probably has 13% chance of actually happening, but just the thought of Jonathan Vilma playing alongside Ernie Sims next season has me Stephen Boyding all over myself.

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I didn’t think much at first of Dwyane Wade’s embarrassing effort in the NBA Skills Competition. It was terrible, but we all have off nights, right? Then I watched the tapes later on that night with my friend Nick Nolte. Yeah, he’s my friend, so are the other three guys in the room, except I [...]

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Kevin Faulk was found to have four joints on him during a random security check at the Cajundome during a recent Lil Wayne concert. Not only is it lame to get busted by a checkpoint, but with joints? Kevin Faulk, you’ve been in the league for almost a decade. You have three rings. It’s time [...]

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Attention all major sports news outlets: Apollo 13 was released over 12 years ago. We get the reference. It’s no longer clever, barely ever was. Please come up with new phrases for when any of the Houston-based franchises find themselves in some sort of quandary.

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In the midst 12 game winning streak, the news out of Houston is that Yao Ming is out for the year with a stress fracture in his foot. Looking at the current standings, the Rockets are seeded 7th and are only three games out of the top spot. However, there are essentially nine teams for [...]

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