The Bills are 8-6 and might make the playoffs. That’s incredible because after the Patriots crushed them 29-6 on November 14, they were 3-6 and alive like a cemetery. Somehow they’ve won five straight. The secret, according to coach Mike Mularkey, was to play one game at a time. You see, earlier in the season, […]
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From Joe Fan: I believe
After an inauspicious 0-4 start, it was looking like another one of those seasons for the Buffalo Bills. You know, the kind that begin with high expectations and end in disillusionment. Fans in Buffalo and beyond were frustrated and clamoring for answers. One of the most common questions was, “Why does this team look the […]
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In defense of pro athletes
It’s Christmas blockbuster movie season. I’ll see The Polar Express with Tom Hanks, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events with Jim Carrey, and Spanglish with Adam Sandler. And I’m telling you, if those movies stink, I’ll be so angry that I’ll head to the Oscars in February and throw beers at each of those […]
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Rapid fire with J.B. and the boys
I watch those NFL pre- and post-game programs. Fox’s James Brown, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, and Jimmy Johnson are so much fun. They yuk it up, act goofy, and then they joke about each other’s shortcomings, particularly Bradshaw’s perceived mental deficiencies. I wish those guys were my friends. We’d have so many laughs together, just […]
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Madden. Michaels. Edie?
Last week, there were two disgusting events that occurred in US professional sports. There was the Pacers-Pistons fan-player brawl on Friday, November 19, which I’ll get to later. And there was the Terrell Owens-Edie Britt encounter that occurred before the November 15 Monday Night Football game between the Eagles and Cowboys. Owens was leaving the […]
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A spark in the dark
During the summer, I read a newspaper reporter’s opinion that Bills quarterback Drew Bledsoe was actually going to be better because he couldn’t be any worse than last year. That’s like saying he’s going to be better because my Magic 8 Ball told me so. Clearly, in the harmless world of sports, that kind of […]
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NHL isn’t going anywhere
I recently bought Duran Duran’s new album, Astronaut, and I feel ripped off. It’s not very good. I should have known better. For the past 22 years, I’ve been buying Duran Duran albums, hoping the music will somehow live up to the band’s 1982 masterpiece, Rio. In 1986, when I was 14, I bought Notorious, […]
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East High rocks the house
It was two days before last Sunday’s Class AAA high-school football final between East and Penfield. East carried an 8-0 record into the game against the 4-4 Patriots of suburbia, but one Monroe County coach didn’t think much of the Orientals. “Who’d they play?” he asked, suggesting that the City-Catholic league’s competition is completely inferior […]
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What in the world?
If the Boston Red Sox win the World Series, they will have solved the Curse of the Bambino. And they will be world champions for the first time since 1918. Think about that: The tiny little city of Boston, the 563rd largest city on Earth, champions of the world! It would be an even greater […]
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Voting Yankee
I read The Week magazine the other day, and it featured a suave-looking Osama bin Laden caricature on the cover wearing a John Kerry T-shirt and a Kerry-Edwards pin. The cartoon had bin Laden passing out Kerry campaign literature with a tagline underneath, “Who would he prefer? A vote for Kerry, says the GOP, is […]
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Those Buffalo blues
The Patriots sacked Drew Bledsoe seven times — five on Buffalo’s last two desperation drives — during the Bills’ 31-17 loss on Sunday. New England scored the game-clinching touchdown when it sacked Bledsoe, forced and recovered his fumble, and ran it 68 yards to the end zone. The play epitomized the long season Bills fans […]
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Boys vs. girls
The Olympic gold medal-winning US women’s soccer team, featuring superstar and Rochester-native Abby Wambach, plays Iceland on Saturday night, September 25, at Frontier Field as part of a 10-city “Fan Celebration Tour.” Iceland is ranked 17th in the FIFA world rankings, and obviously needs a spark, like Björk showing up in a swan suit to […]
