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"Bama," unless your real name is Tyson C -- and I'm guessing it isn't, since his bio says he's from Canada, lives in L.A., and is a USC student -- please don't post copyrighted work in its entirety and without linking to the original source. Thanks, the management

FWIW, Green was supposed to talk to the media this morning, but that's now been pushed back to 1:30pm. Feel free to draw your own conclusions ...

Green, Brown, they're both colors, right? It gets better: the lede says Brown, but later references switch to Green. I won't pick on Peck too much, but it does seem that there are more mistakes/typos on TV stations' Web sites than in print media ...

Thankee, and mad props for the screen name.

One suspects that more people might already read JW's stories online than in print. And when I was away from my computer for several days during the Olympics, I kept track of his work through AP Mobile on my BlackBerry ...

Pure speculation based on the fact that the Eagles haven't been shopping in free agency. The only mention of Buffalo is in a list of eight hypothetical destinations. "Buffalo Bills: The Bills could use a veteran passer while they draft and develop their next franchise gunslinger. Same goes for the Rams (who might actually want Donovan's teammate Michael Vick)."

I'm curious as to precisely where and when PFT saw this. It's not on Schefter's Twitter account, and there hasn't been an update to his blog since Mar. 5. So either he reported this news on a recent SportsCenter and hasn't gotten around to updating his last tweet from an hour ago, or .........

It didn't start well.

Boston Globe, circa Feb. 2008: http://www.boston.com/sports/football/arti...lopment/?page=4 Two Bills Drive Terms of Service: You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by TBD.

You obviously weren't here in September. This was linked more than once. And it wasn't all that funny back then, either.

Yes, we can.

Upon further review, you are absolutely correct, and thanks for pointing that out. Just dropped an e-mail to Sal; if he confirms that the OP is full of shinola, the banning will be immediate and permanent.

How's Terry's knee? And I might be more interested in Ayodele than Porter at this point. As for not doing anything on opening weekend, someone else can give guys like Nate Burleson a crapload of guaranteed money. Didn't hear the Steelers do much of anything, as usual -- other than Roethlisberger, anyway. That's the model the Bills need to follow, even if it doesn't lead to double-digit wins this season.

One wonders if Florio's "league source" reads TBD.

Once Craigslist destroyed classified-ad sales and the economic downturn did the same for display ads and inserts, not so good. But that wasn't 30 years ago. In fact, 20-percent profit margins were more or less the industry standard well into this decade: http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2005/narrat...t=4&media=2 I suppose I could get into the intricacies of the JOA between the Rocky and the Denver Post (d.b.a. the Denver Newspaper Agency), and why Scripps decided to leave the market even though they were in better financial shape than MediaNews Group's Post, which almost drove the DNA into bankruptcy. (MediaNews CEO Dean Singleton is worth an entire chapter by himself -- and deserving of his own circle of Hades, according to most of the MNG people I know.) I could go deeper into the past, to when Scripps diverted profits from the newspaper division to build up its cable network properties (including The Food Network and HGTV) instead of reinvesting in its main product, then abandoned print at the first sign of trouble. But I'm not all that interested in debating with someone whose knowledge of the industry comes from the pages of a single book. So, enjoy.

Most of the papers I read no longer have dedicated golf writers (if they ever did), so any coverage would have been via AP wire stories. Somehow I doubt Doug Ferguson provided much in the way of salacious detail.

True dat. Whole bunch of Americans blasted the dude in question, too. Add: and the S-T's publisher apologized yesterday. Works for me. http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/05/20...apologizes.html

Based on what I saw in the Jim Kelly Club that day, that might have been pretty close, once the stunned silence wore off. When the closed-circuit TVs showed Marv making the announcement, quite a few people booed...

And that is news that we are going to get an OT. We had the worst in the league last year. So you are going out on a limb by saying the obvious? Go back in your cave, and try and think of something a little more original dude!! Sarcasm. Learn it, live it, love it.

99%? Generalize much?

You weren't here that day, were you?

Thank you. Skip Bayless' reality is not mine.

Which of the names you listed are sportswriters? Bayless is the only one who comes close. The others are radio/TV foofs. Add: And while the TV guys salivated over their live broadcast, the Golf Writers Association boycotted it.

Not necessarily. Must be Buffalo's initial offer (assuming they made one) wasn't enough to cancel his other visit(s), so he's doing the smart thing, exploring his options. Maybe he does sign with Houston, maybe not. Tell you what, though -- if it was my decision and the money was similar, I'd have to pick the Texans, who are far closer to being a playoff team.

http://blogs.buffalobills.com/2010/03/06/s...-address-media/ So. Didn't sign on the spot, which makes the "word out of Houston" wrong.