I’ve been kind of out of it this week. Somewhere between the pre-holiday busy-ness and the post-holiday tryptophan coma, I neglected to watch any news.  Football, yes.  Macy’s Parade, yes.  News, no.  I figured that if something truly noteworthy happened, it would filter down to me somehow.  Based on that plan, it appears that the [...]

How fickle are the fortunes of the NFL. Before the season started, I picked the Broncos as a Super Bowl contender, a move for which I was ridiculed at the time. When the Broncos were 6-0, I looked like a genius. A month later the Denver team is 6-4 and in serious jeopardy of missing [...]

November 22 proved to be a tough day for the AFC North.  All four teams suffered a loss.  All of which added some more drama to the potential playoff contenders. The Steelers’ loss to the Bengals made the fans believe the Bengals would runaway with the division.  However, their loss to Oakland put kept their [...]

To celebrate the 2010 season moving into double digits, here’s a special “What’s up?” edition of the NFL Weekly Update. What’s up with the replay officials? Last week, the Philadelphia Eagles were absolutely brutalized when the replay officials failed to spot the ball properly, despite the huge EAGLE logo on the field clearly marking the [...]

Michelle Wie is the female equivalent of Tiger Woods.  Both are of Asian descent, both excelled at golf at an extremely young age, both are charming and attractive.  But until this week, only one of them had won a PGA sanctioned golf tournament. Michelle Wie, who at the ripe old age of 20 has ten [...]