But how much is Terrell Owens an UPGRADE? He is 38 years old and has not played in the NFL since 2010 with the Cincinnati Bengals where he had 72 catches for 938 yards and 9 touchdowns.
K.C. Chiefs Lineman Eric Winston deserves EVERYONE’s RESPECT after his post-game RANT. He called out 70,000 Chiefs fans for cheering, yes CHEERING when his quarterback Matt Cassel was knocked out of the game due to a concussion.
Wow, this is just SHAMEFUL and Eric Winston is RIGHT. These players are PEOPLE like you and me.
Hats off and much RESPECT goes to Eric Winston, I just became his BIGGEST fan because of his BRAVERY to speak out and DEDICATION to his teammates/brothers.
The Baltimore Orioles are in the post season for the FIRST time since 1997. They won their first playoff game since the 90’s by defeating the Texas Rangers in the inaugural A.L. one game Wildcard game.
So has O’s MANIA taken over Baltimore yet? If not, their anthem “Black & Orange” will get you excited.
The AMAZING thing is Jay-Luv & D-Boi made this video in 2011. They knew BETTER days were in store for Baltimore’s Black & Orange!
Never has a professional sports team announced they were moving DURING a season. No owner has ripped the hearts out of his franchise’s fans, players and coaching staff like Art Modell did in Cleveland during the ’95 season. In essence, the ’95 Cleveland Browns became a “DEAD Team Playing”.
Bill Belichick came to Cleveland in 1991 fresh off a Super Bowl victory with the New York Giants. He came to the Browns to bring respectability back to the once proud franchise that could never get over the hump. He instilled a system and assembled a staff (which included 3 future GM’s, 2 successful college coaches and one NFL coach) that would lead the Browns to their first Super Bowl.
Belichick took a team from a 3-13 season to a 6-10 record in his first year at the helm. In 1992 & 1993, the Browns posted back to back 7-9 campaigns and were showing progress. However, progress was not without pain and scrutiny.
Bill Belichick made a controversial and risky decision by benching Cleveland icon Bernie Kosar early in the ’93 season in favor of Vinny Testaverde. A mere eight weeks later, Kosar was released due to his “diminished skills” as described by Belichick. Browns fans were enraged by Kosar’s dismissalas they wore Bernie Kosar masks to the following home game.
The head coach survived the fire and brimstone to lead the Browns to the playoffs in 1994 after posting a 11-5 record. Belichick would face his mentor, Bill Parcells and the New England Patriots in the playoffs. Cleveland won the wild card match-up 20-13 before falling to their hated rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers 29-9 in the divisional round.
Hope was breeding eternal in the “Dawg Pound”as their Browns were back to respectability. NFL pundits such as the Sporting News and Sports Illustrated were picking the Browns to go to the Super Bowl in 1995. And the team was believing in the hype as they started the season 3-1.
My wife and I first visited the Cranmore Mt. Lodge for the first time back in November 2011. We decided to leave the corporate hotels/motels behind and decided to go with more of a country feel. From the moment, we arrived we felt right at home by Inn keeper, Frederique AKA “Freddie”. Right off the bat (pun intended), we felt more like FRIENDS of hers rather than just guests at her establishment.
We had a great time at the quaint and friendly country inn.
We decided to visit again this past March for a much needed getaway after some tough times. Freddie put us up in the “Babe Ruth” room which one of the bigger and MOST famous of the lodge. The walls are adorned with Babe memorabilia. Of course being a Red Sox fan this made me a bit uneasy having Mr. Ruth stare at me in his Yankees garb (Why Harry Frazee Why!) while we slept.
But I became quite intrigued about “The Bambino”and his history frequenting the Cranmore Mt. Lodge. Freddie was nice enough to send me some pictures and documentation about the inn’s most famous visitor and now here I sit writing this interesting tale. As you know about me by now, nothing gets my writing juices flowing more than local sports history.
The Sports Then and Now Vintage Athlete of the Month is a former major league baseball player who came into the game as a teenager and stayed until he was in his 40s. In between, Rusty Staub put up a solid career that was primarily spent on expansion or rebuilding teams.
Originally signed by the Colt .45s at age 17, he made his major league debut as a 19-year old rookie and became only the second player in the modern era to play in more than 150 games as a teenager.
Though he hit only .224 splitting time between first base and rightfield, Staub did start building a foundation that would turn him into an All-Star by 1967 when he finished fifth in the league with a .333 batting average.
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