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Tonight On “The Knee Jerks”: B/R FCs On an NHL Central Panel Discussion!
Posted: 7th December 2009 by Greg Eno in NHL
It's a hockey extravaganza---specifically the NHL Central---tonight on "The Knee Jerks," my weekly Blog Talk Radio gabfest with co-host Big Al Beaton of The Wayne Fontes Experience.
And the featured guests will all be Bleacher Creatures!
B/R featured columnists Tab Bamford (Chicago Blackhawks), Mark Willoughby (Nashville Predators), Ed Cmar (Columbus Blue Jackets) and Jason Besancenez (St. Louis Blues) will all be part of a roundtable discussion as we talk NHL Central and ...
Matthew Stafford: He’s Proven His Toughness, Now Get Him Out of There!
Posted: 7th December 2009 by Greg Eno in NFL
OK, I get itùthis kid, Matthew Stafford, is tough. So I wish the Lions would quit forcing him to prove it every week.
Actually, itÆs the LionsÆoffensive lineùfeel free to put the accent on the second syllableùthatÆs putting QB Stafford in peril every Sunday. Just as I feared, way back in training camp.
Stafford winced and grimaced and grunted and groaned his way through another football game yesterday, picking himself off ...
Frankenstein’s Monster Returns: Allen Iverson a Philadelphia 76er Again
Posted: 5th December 2009 by Greg Eno in NBA
Allen Iverson is back in the NBA. DonÆt say that you werenÆt warned.
Coming to a pro basketball city near you: Petulance! Narcissism! High Maintenance!
Iverson is backùin Philadelphia, which is like the monster knocking on FrankensteinÆs door. Philly created him, so now they can have him.
Iverson, the bratty little kid who thrilled us with his moves on the court and repulsed us with his moves off of it. Iverson, who claims ...
Detroit Tigers Let Placido Polanco Go, But It Makes Good Business Sense
Posted: 4th December 2009 by Greg Eno in MLB
Four-plus years ago, Placido Polanco got run out of Philadelphiaùthey do that a lot in that townùbecause the Phanatics wanted to see Chase Utley, and pronto, play second base. So quick to rid themselves of Polanco were the Phillies that they accepted a soon-to-be felon from the Tigers, pitcher Ugie Urbina, in a straight up heist. It wasn't quite Lou Brock-for-Ernie Broglio but it wasn't Rocky Colavito-for-Harvey Kuenn, either. ...
Resurgent Tomas Holmstrom Key to Detroit Red Wings’ Staying Above Water
Posted: 2nd December 2009 by Greg Eno in NHL
For 13 years, Tomas Holmstrom has been the NHL's Redwood. He's been chopped and hacked, and if they could have taken a chainsaw to him, they would have done that too.In last spring's playoffs, it looked as if the lumberjacks in the NHL masquerading as defensemen were finally about to be able to cry "Timber!"Holmstrom, the league's premier disruptor of enemy goal creases and netminders' vision, shrunk last season. He ...
IÆm going to make a preemptive strike here. An end-around, if you will, to head them off at the pass.
IÆm getting my own iron hot. Not enough time to wait for others to reach the proper temp.
This is for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and those who would petition him on their behalf.
Keep your stinking paws off our Thanksgiving Day game in Detroit.
Maybe the rumblings have already started. Maybe IÆm not ...
Matthew Stafford’s Legendary Tale Gets Rewritten by Packers
Posted: 27th November 2009 by Greg Eno in NFL
Cinderella's coach really did turn back into a pumpkin. Hansel and Gretel got caught after all. None of the pigs got around to building a joint out of brick. John Elway's legend is safe once again. Whoever sculpts those busts for Canton needn't rush out to procure a head shot of Matthew Stafford at his earliest convenience. Cloud Nine just touched down. The bandwagon came to a screeching ...
Tell Me Another Fable: Detroit Lions Win with 0:00 Left
Posted: 23rd November 2009 by Greg Eno in NFL
Someday, theyÆll have Ford FieldÆs capacity up to a quarter million, for as many people who will claim to have been there. The Cleveland Browns will be defending league champions. Matthew Stafford will have been carried onto the field on a stretcher. Brandon Pettigrew will have one-handed the football, his body parallel to the turf.
That will pretty much be the gist of the re-telling of what went on Sunday, several ...
IÆm a little early on this, I admit. IÆm jumping the gun, but this time they canÆt call me back to the starting blocks.
You heard it here first, then.
When the Tigers gather for spring training in about three monthsùit canÆt get here fast enough, by the wayùit will be 2010 and you can say it.
ItÆll be 20 years since Cecil Fielder knocked 51 homers out of the confines of American ...
Brendan Shanahan shouldnÆt have been a hockey player. He should have been tasting wine, or taking in the theater. Or maybe he should have been in the aisle behind you at the bookstore, helping some pretty young thing pick out a title for her dad on FatherÆs Day.
Instead, he elbowed, bulled, and plowed his way into goaliesÆnightmares. He put his movie star good looks on the line every night, ...