Lori

Does this mean Burger Thing doesn't allow their employees to use sharp objects?

Sully at 1 p.m. Gaughan, live from the stadium at 3 p.m. Graham, also at 3 That's why they make tabbed browsers, folks ...

My fellow Lot 1 Pole 5 tailgater -- the one who works for the Border Patrol -- would definitely dispute that low estimate.

From a Wiscahnsin undergrad who just got back from spending a semester in Prague? Yeah, I'll trust his thoughts on Maybin, instead of a direct quote from Dick Jauron ...

Sure you can find it on his archive page: http://www.sportingnews.com/experts/dennis-dillon/ And I'll buy Marv or Jimbo as alternatives, but Bud Adams? Honestly? Yeah, he and Art Modell can share carpetbagging stories.

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/2009/0...ach-settlement/ Nice work, John. There's still much more to be done, but so far, I think DeMaurice Smith is walking the walk (instead of threatening Hall of Famers, as the late Gene Upshaw was wont to do).

Or actually voted into the real Pro Bowl, seeing as how he only went because two or three guys in front of him were injured...

Sully would be a riot. Or maybe incite one ...

I pulled it ... but the heck with it, I'm putting it back. And yeah, their guy heard from our guy. At least she rewrote, unlike most of this example. (Not that I'm touchy about the subject, or anything ...)

I'd be willing to bet you just discovered the source for that Associated Content story you linked. Go figure.

It's been done before ... but I agree, it's a positive development. See: P. Manning and M. Harrison, and all the extra time they put in until the reads and adjustments became second nature. Unlike some past Bills RBs who didn't see any point to showing up to learn the playbook unless it was mandatory.

You're right, I didn't even pull anything off the blog ... Jauron likes Owens fear factor in red zone Edwards, Owens building a relationship

Owens Impresses Owens turns on the jets for spectacular catch Evans and T.O.: Opposites attracting Edwards, WRs work OT You were saying?

Will do. So sorry for your loss, Annmarie.

Per Wawrow's AP story (and his post earlier in this thread), the real-estate agent and Owens' bodyguard looked at the property. The agent was the one who used the word "drama."

Morning, Mr. Schmuck. True enough -- we would've talked about it here even if you and Tim hadn't followed up on it. (Speaking of Tim, he's also waiting for The Associated Press to call him about trying to find a house in Buffalo, if you want to get on that ... )

FYI: Surgery for bone spurs. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4228976

Owens confirmed it was in OP, via another tweet.

Thinking this will not end well for the folks at Deer Run ...

Early "reports"? Power rankings? Really? Wake me up when training camp starts ...

Bernie Miklasz covered a lot of this on his blog Saturday night: Bernie's Extra Points

Gracias, sir.

It's obviously a completely different ballgame between ESPN and the Dunkirk/Tonawanda newspapers. Honestly, I doubt anyone assigned either one of the T.O. columns which took so much heat on here -- it was probably more a case of the columnist thinking he had something to say about the topic, and knowing he had a platform to present it. For example, OTH intern Adam Bennett wrote a piece about Mark Cuban last week. I doubt Chuck Pollock would have asked him for something on the NBA, which is mostly ignored around here. More likely, they had space to fill (especially with Chuck on vacation) and Bennett had an opinion he wanted to share. Tim's on the other end of that spectrum. There were quite a few nasty comments in response to his Lebron-in-the-NFL? piece, complaining about all the coverage King James was receiving ... but I also know that it was one of the most-read stories on the site. Someone asked ESPN VP of Communications (and Bona alum) Chris LaPlaca about the Favre hype when he spoke at the Dick Joyce Sports Symposium at SBU in late April. He replied that they HAVE to cover those stories -- more or less because everyone else is -- and added, "When we do great journalism, it doesn't get the hits." Mark Kriegel, the FoxSports columnist who gave the keynote address at the symposium, took that point a step further, mentioning a great story Tom Rinaldi did on a high school kid who was dying of cancer and wanted one more chance to play on his school's baseball team. (He didn't remember the name and I didn't see the piece, but I'm pretty sure he was talking about John Challis.) "Those stories are great, but they don't pay the bills," Kriegel said. "You have to pick your battles, and there's no shame in giving people what they want. There are worse things than over-covering Favre or Kobe, if it allows you to do stories like Rinaldi's."

Heh. After typing that, I was sitting here thinking that you have a lot more interviewing experience than I do ...

Right. It's a conversation, not an interrogation. That's why I lean more on my recorder than my notebook during interviews -- I'll check to make sure I'm hitting the topics I need to cover, but in my admittedly limited experience, I've found that a straight ask-the-question-then-write-down-the-answer session is uncomfortable for both sides.