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Free Pacman Jones! Or At Least Let Him Back On The Football Field
As UT's Longhorn football team approached their spectacular game with Oklahoma last week and a tough stretch in their schedule over the next few games, including tonight hosting #11 Missouri, I've found myself checking in more frequently at the venerable sports cable network ESPN and couldn't help but notice they're producing a flood of stories aggressively criticizing troubled Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones, who was suspended this week by the league after an argument with a bodyguard at a hotel.
ESPN and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell seem determined to turn Pacman Jones into the next Michael Vick - a sacrificial lamb suitable for crucifixion in the media to show the league doesn't tolerate bad guys. Maybe Jones deserves it for his past transgressions, which I've never closely followed before he came to Dallas, but not for the incident that most recently hounded him out of the league. Permalink / Comments
Romo Practices, Could Play Sunday (AP)
Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, who wants to play despite a broken pinkie on his throwing hand, practiced and threw passes to receivers Thursday. Coach Wade Phillips didn't rule out the possibility of Romo playing Sunday at St. Louis even though he said the quarterback was limited in practice Thursday and that Brad Johnson took most of the snaps.
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Tony Romo Wants To Play Sunday?
Tony Romo broke his right pinkie finger and it was estimated that he would miss roughly 4 weeks.
Brett Favre has called Romo telling him that he should try to play through it (if he could).
"The only thing I said was, it's worth trying [to play] if you can deal with the pain and can function good enough with a splint,'' Favre said. "If not, don't try.''And Romo has reportedly told coaches that he wants to play Sunday.
Romo did not practice on Wednesday but did throw the ball on the side with his fractured pinkie in a splint, and according to eyewitnesses, he was able to throw the ball with good velocity and appeared confident after throwing. The session was not open to reporters.
There is no assurance he can protect the ball, take a snap or deliver the ball accurately under game conditions.
The Cowboys' biggest concern is...
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Tiger Fans May Soon Regret Bowden Departure
Ah, yes! Finally! The moment we've all been waiting for. After a decade on the sidelines, Tommy Bowden and Clemson have parted ways.
Cheers abound on campus. Tiger Band strikes up and parades down Fort Hill street. Everyone is jubilant, as the coach that has failed to bring us to our first title game in almost twenty years leaves us for good.
There's the buzz, now get ready for the hangover.
What Clemson has done is put the football program in the hands of a no-name, receivers coach Dabo Swinney. While all the talent is still there (minus an injured C.J. Spiller), the Tigers look to have a decent finish to '08. A conference title is a foregone conclusion, but a good bowl game and potentially an 8-win season are still on the horizon.
But what about next year? 2010? 2011?
Clemson will begin feeling...
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No Love For Tommy Bowden
Not only has Tommy Bowden been shown the door, his former players are leaning out the windows to mock him, while he slowly retires down a lane of wilted yellow jessamines (the South Carolina state flower, for any non-botanists).
At season's outset, no one would have predicted this. The #9 Tigers were ACC favorites and national title contenders. Really, with traditional conference powers like Florida State and Miami recently taking residence in the ACC cellar, Clemson looked to be the team to beat for the next few years. Bowden, already in his ninth season at the school, must have been envisioning a career at Clemson not unlike his father's at Florida State
But it wasn't to be, and Bowden's fate got me thinking about other coaches whose times at their respective universities were cut shorter than some may have expected:
5. Ron Zook - In 2002,...
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