September 2007

1 — Apparently the Patriots really are mad. Note what Tom Brady had to say about the accusation that videotaping the defensive signals of opposing teams meant the Patriots were cheating. It just does not seem like a good idea to make the Patriots mad.
2 — Can someone please explain to me why Britney Spears' [...]

I'm going to try to make sense of today's Browns-Bengals game during the game. For these "insights" go to the Beacon-Journal's Cleveland Browns blog.

Is there anything left to say about the Browns?
Unfortunately the bosses make me find at least 10 things every week.
So (warning: shameless plug coming) they make me do this weekly newsletter on the Browns called "First and 10" that is delivered free of charge, without coupon [...]

Pittsburgh 17, Cleveland 0
First — First chant of "Brady, Brady" — 9:51 left in the second quarter.
Second — Guess the change from Bill Cowher to Mike Tomlin mattered, eh? Halfway through the second quarter Charlie Frye had been sacked five times. Frye is pulled for Derek Anderson with 6:34 [...]

Kickoff approaches, and the Browns have a couple surprise inactives.
Kelly Butler will not play, meaning Nat Dorsey is the third tackle. Wide receiver Travis Wilson also is inactive.
The rest of the inactives are punter Dave Zastudil, defensive back Gary Baxter, fullback Charles Ali (Lawrence Vickers apparently is over his hamstring injury and will start), linebacker [...]

Patrick McManamon recently was named the lead sports columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal and Ohio.com.
He had been the beat reporter on the Browns since their return in 1999 with a short stint working for the Browns Web site in the middle of that time with the Beacon Journal.
He also has been a beat reporter [...]