If you were more interested in the Spygate stuff than the TV-14 stuff, you may be interested to know that Gregg Easterbrook has another column up today, going into a little more detail on why new stories are popping up this week, and what the Patriots are alleged to have done. I dunno, I still [...]

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From Gregg Easterbrook’s over-the-top absurd column that essentially asserts that the Patriots’ season is indelibly tainted by “Spygate”—which is, in terms of its actual effect on competition in the leage, a complete non-event1:Will the Victoria’s commercial be TV-14? Earlier this season, TMQ noted that NBC’s Sunday night football wrap show is rated TV-14—I wondered whether [...]

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Joe Gibbs retired. Not shocking, but interesting.

I was extremely hopeful about Joe Gibbs’s tenure when he returned to the team, and although it hasn’t been all rainbows and puppy dogs I have to say he did a pretty good job. They made the playoffs twice, and more importantly they have a stability and patience from [...]

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I’m still not sold on Gibbs as Head Honcho (can’t we get him out of the coaching box and into an office?), but there’s no arguing with the results of the last three games. He makes his mistakes, but the man is a great motivator and a diligent game-planner. The Redskins have dominated three teams [...]

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Looks like the Diamondbacks are thinking about having a pitcher who can hit spend some time playing first base, too.

All I have to say about this is, Arizona, stop stealing my ideas! Or at least give me credit when you implement them!

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Yeesh.

The Redskins started out the game with 10 players on the field—the missing safety was a powerful tribute to Sean Taylor’s untimely death last week. That was a great start to a game with a miserable finish.

First, let’s be fair: it looked like that kick would have been good from the original line of scrimmage. [...]

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Certainly it would be terribly easy to rush toward some sort of instant judgment based on what we think we all knew about Taylor and the sort of life he once, and for all we know, still led. But really, we know nothing at the moment, and until we do, “may he rest in peace” [...]

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Sean Taylor, one of few standout players on the Redskins, died last night from an injury he suffered confronting an intruder in his Florida home. He was shot in the femoral artery, lingered through a long surgery, but succumbed to the injury early this morning.

On the one hand, this is a minor story. Taylor was [...]

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