Scarier than the lockout.
- So a night of sleep with no breaking news has further proved that the report from a small Massachusetts newspaper claiming the lockout is over was clearly erroneous. But signs of progress exist, and a “jovial dinner” is never a bad thing. (Although for some reason it vexes me to imagine Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith breaking bread and sharing a laugh while we all suffer.)
- Well, we haven’t begun the new league year. Trades still need to go down, free agents have to sign and rookies have to get acclimated. But that hasn’t stopped the Sporting News from predicting that the Packers will repeat in 2011.
- Plaxico Burress has broken his silence. Who had the Wall Street Journal in the pool for who Burress would speak to first?
- Tough break for Erik Ainge (torn rotator cuff) but good to see that the recovering addict is keeping his head up.
- First-year Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie thinks the Pro Bowl is a waste of the state’s money. Additionally, it’s a waste of everyone’s time.
- Don’t count David Carr out in San Francisco, where there are a lot of question marks and everyone continues to get screwed.
- Despite what Peter King tweets, Ella Sharp of 12th Man Rising continues to believe Matt Hasselbeck will return to Seattle.
- Speaking of King, he’s also looking at July 4 as an over/under date for a new CBA. How quickly things can change.
- But Cris Collinsworth isn’t buying into the optimism circling the football world. The NBC analyst still believes we’re going to lose games.
- No. 39 on Arrowhead Addict’s list of 100 things scarier than no football: Roseanne.
- Hard Knocks to Carolina?
- From Cincy Jungle: Why the Bengals should get rid of Chad Ochocinco and Why the Bengals should keep Chad Ochocinco.
- Yesterday, the Goal-Line Stand combined hockey and football. One day prior, they made the same cocktail in Detroit, where Kris Draper of the Red Wings trained with actual, real-life Lions.
- Thoroughly compelling and creative stuff from Steve Breaston, who goes in on the lockout in a unique way:
