Lori

Mmmm. No attribution to you? Nice. I just went back and re-read his piece assuming I'd missed it the first time, but no... Anyway, we thank you for the clarification.

Or RJ.

That magic word, potential ...

That thought makes me smile.

A few teams also dropped Thurman Thomas down their draft boards because of his knee, as I recall. Doctors don't always share the same opinion of an injury. At this point, guess we'll just have to sit back and see how it plays out. The fact that he played all 18 games last season does ease my mind a little, though.

These might be worth a look: http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/03/10/9833...-places-to.html http://media.buffalonews.com/smedia/2010/0...ffiliate.50.pdf

A different eyewitness perspective: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/story/1...with-new-motion

That dude cracks me up at least once a day on there.

It's already been on Twitter for a couple of hours -- that's where I first saw it, when a Toronto columnist retweeted it -- so why not?

Whitehurst had a third-round tender, but Seattle didn't have a third-round pick -- they traded it to Philly last year. 2011 No. 3 would be less valuable than this year's, so the 'Hawks had to sweeten the deal.

The "local wrap" rumor started at one of my old hangouts a couple of years ago: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/ind...ic,59854.0.html Rochester wasn't mentioned as one of the targets, though. Seemed like they were aiming more at the smaller dailies. Of course, you also have the problem that USAT doesn't publish on weekends, when most of the advertising inserts run, so there would still have to be full-service local papers on those days. Haven't heard too much about this lately ... but you can count on the idea that they're going to keep making more and more of their content digital. Blogs (including Maiorana's brand-new "Ultimate Season" project about the '78 Yankees/Red Sox), live-tweeting games, stuff like that. Speaking of which, here's Sal's reaction to the latest free-agent signings -- in blog form only, not in print: Is That a Pulse I Detect on OBD?

Can hardly wait until this reaches its natural conclusion, and a desker in India is trying to proof a football game story from Palmyra-Macedon vs. Irondequoit.

She wasn't there, because she was taping a TV show in NYC. Think he was sending a reporter back out there today to get the interview with her (he's an editor, and more or less went out there on his own time), but he did put together a video of local reaction: http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2010/03...16280067768.txt

Nope, this one's outside D.C. and closer to my age. (The other one was fresh out of J-school. Think he retreated to college for a master's in something else.) And as of 23 minutes ago (according to my Facebook page) I can add another name to that ever-lengthening list, because Tribune's doing the same thing with Newport News. Dammit. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-...74.story?page=1

Because they have a previously-scheduled private workout set up with him: http://blogs.nfl.com/2010/03/07/tebow-has-...seahawks-bills/

Is that because The News, as the hometown "paper of record," puts more emphasis on covering them? Might be. As I noted, Leo's now on the outdoors beat, and Sal's bouncing between Sabres-Knighthawks-college/high school games this time of the year. Allen also picks up some other stories -- saw him on press row at a Bonnies basketball game a couple of weeks back, because he covered new HOF inductee Tim Winn's high school career -- but as far as I know, Mark's workload is entirely devoted to Bills/NFL coverage. And that's good for us, because he's damn good at his job. The Pro Football Writers knew what they were doing when they elected him VP. (Believe he takes over as president next year...)

Tell me. A friend is freshly out of work because of that plan. He and I were joking around on Twitter back when it looked like the Bills were never going to hire a HC, saying maybe he should put in for it after the paper laid him off. Just kidding, right? That same afternoon, he went into work to find out his job was moving four hours away. Pure genius. To me, Matthews' thoughts on the Bills are no more relevant than anyone's on this board -- and less than some -- until he actually shows up at RWS to cover a game. I'd much rather read Leo Roth. Just my opinion.

He does now. He didn't at PSU, and I say this even though I liked him well enough to buy his jersey during the Rose Bowl season.

If Hades exists, there's a special place waiting for Lean Dean Singleton.

LeBron sucks. /skipbayless

Me too. We're fortunate Scott agreed to share his work with us, and the general consensus of people who know him much better than I do says, "great writer, but an even better person." As for the team photo, there's a thread here with links to some .jpgs, and Tim followed up with a blog post which included a very nice Trotsky reference: http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/...-team-photoshop

I love this one -- law prof gives his class a "scoop" about SC Justice Roberts retiring but cautions them not to tell anyone, then proceeds to teach a class about unreliable sources. Of course, by the time he tells them an hour later that it was a hoax, part of the lesson, the news has gone national via Twitter/IM ... http://www.newser.com/story/82480/roberts-...w-students.html

Shhhhhh ....

My example would be the Vick-to-Bills rumor during training camp last year. Gaughan (and others) kept insisting there was nothing to it, but people didn't believe them because "such-and-so posted it on Twitter." And fewer than 12 hours later, Vick signed with Philadelphia.