Sports Beat – 3/23/11

One week after the NFL announced that it was locking out its players, Jets head coach Rex Ryan made his first public appearance, doing a meet and greet for Revolution Eyewear at Vision Expo East, an optical trade show held at the Javits Center. Rex told me that he expected the League and the Players [...]

Theater “Lombardi” Starring: Dan Lauria & Judith Light

Another sign that my fellow baby boomers are getting older is that this past September marked the 40th anniversary of the passing of the most famous head coach in NFL history, Vince Lombardi. This milestone has not gone unnoticed. HBO Sports and NFL Films have been working on a documentary that will air on the [...]

Confidence Score Picks – NFL Week

Each week throughout the 2010 NFL season, Jon Wagner (Sr. Writer At-Large for Football Reporters Online, Senior Columnist for Pro Football NYC, and writer for NY Sports Day), picks the full weekly NFL slate of games based on confidence scores, going from highest (most confident) to lowest (least confident) that a certain team will win. [...]

Confidence Score Results – NFL Week 1

Each week throughout the NFL season, Jon Wagner, NYSD reporter, will be picking the full weekly NFL slate of games based on confidence scores, going from highest (most confident) to lowest (least confident) that a certain team will win. Submit your own picks in the comments section here at FRO, and see if you can [...]

Week 1 Confidence Ratings

Each week throughout the NFL season, Jon Wagner, FRO’s Sr. Writer At-Large, will be picking the full weekly NFL slate of games based on confidence scores, going from highest (most confident) to lowest (least confident) that a certain team will win. Submit your own picks in the comments section here at FRO, and see if [...]

The Rise and Fall of JaMarcus Russell

When people used to bring up the phrase “Draft Bust,” it used to signal the talk of Ryan Leaf. Nowadays, Leaf is basically an afterthought. There’s a new man holding down that crown of being the biggest draft bust in NFL History, and that man is JaMarcus Russell. Russell was just recently released by the [...]

Team Needs and Moves AFC

Buffalo Bills Team Losses – T. Owens – WR, J. Reed – WR, C. Draft – LB Team Additions – D. Edwards – DE, A. Davis – LB, C. Green – OT Team Needs – (Switching to a 3-4) OT, NT, QB, OLB, WR, DE Draft: 1. CJ Spiller – RB, Clemson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxkNT9IxEu8 2. Torell [...]

NFC South Draft Recap

The NFC South gave birth to the Super bowl Champion in 2009. However, despite the good play, many, many needs have arisen from each of the four teams in the division. The fastest, easiest way for teams to make up for their teams losses each year is the NFL Draft. Lets see how the NFC [...]

Violence in Youth Sports: A growing trend? A downward spiral, and a young man’s brutalization

It is becoming more prevailing in our society, the “win at any cost” mentality. Sure, that’s what competition is based on at any level. As coach Herman Edwards once said “you play to win the game.” But when is that mindset “Overkill?” At the professional level we expect athletes to give 110% all the time [...]

ACC DRAFT RECAP

With the 9th pick of the 2010 NFL Draft, the Buffalo Bills selected Clemson running back CJ Spiller. The biggest scoring threat in this year’s draft, Spiller is too electrifying and too explosive to be ignored. I guess you could say that he has enough talent to be taken anywhere in the draft, so it [...]

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