The DETROIT FREE PRESS was so excited about Lloyd Carr winning a coach-of-the-year trophy, that they misspelled the award:

What they meant to say was the Bobby DODD award, named after the former Georgia Tech coach who apparently was pretty good at the game.
Carr said he was “deeply honored and humbled” to receive the award when […]

Possible terrorist attacks aren’t going to detour an upcoming road race:

AUTO BLOG revs up news that organizers of the Lisbon-Dakar Road Rally are going through with their event as planned, even with recent attacks in Mauritania.
The route is scheduled to wind through the North African nation, as racers make their way from Lisbon, Portugal, […]

Tony Sparano is looking for a head coaching offer he can’t refuse:

The ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION reports that the Dallas Cowboys offensive line coach - not to be confused with the lead character of a recently canceled HBO series - will be interviewing with the Falcons about their head coach job opening.
And word out of Miami […]

Michael Hiestand of USA TODAY catches this promise (or threat?) from Charles Barkley if the Boston Celtics reach 72 wins this season:

“I’ll walk from Atlanta to Phoenix in a Speedo.”
Lucky for Chuck that the TNT studios are in Hotlanta instead of New York. Otherwise, that would be quite a chilly first half of the journey […]

The son of John McEnroe easily loses his temper? You can’t be serious!

The NEW YORK POST’s PAGE SIX spots the offspring of the teed-off tennis star causing a racket outside a West Side club.
20-year-old Sean McEnroe was trying to ace his way into the Pink Elephant club, but was getting no love from the […]

• THE WIZARD OF ODDS wonders if ESPN sideline reporter Stacey Dales is being groomed to replace Erin Andrews:

• WALK OFF BALK offers to do laundry for a young Packers fan, who’s worn the same Favre jersey every day for the last four years.
• Ditch the champagne: HUGGING HAROLD REYNOLDS suggests how the 2007 Patriots […]

Quote Brian Billick’s employment with the Ravens, “Nevermore.”

The BALTIMORE SUN reports that the head coach was fired on Monday, a day after the Birds completed a disappointing 5-11 season. The Ravens had finished their year with a win over the Steelers, but not before losing 9 in a row - including an OT […]

It’s 38 years and counting since the Kansas City Chiefs’ last Super Bowl appearance, but team tryant (and President & GM) Carl Peterson , who the ASSOCIATED PRESS reports has rehired himself for a 20th season, assures us Chiefs fans that “We know where we’re going and what we’re going to do.”

What Peterson is “going […]

The biggest hit of the night between the Colts and Titans Sunday:

After listening to a listing John Madden trying to describe it, and watching him for the entire game last night (was he sick?), we’re thinking it might be time for the NBC sportscaster to retire. He’s starting to enter Andy Rooney territory.

Yes, we’re so ova talking about Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson, but MSNBC gives us an excuse to go scare up a sick pic of Miss “DD”:

Oh yeah, Courtney Hazlett also reports in “The Scoop” that Tom Brady has supposedly told Romo to stop dragging Simpson to games: “‘After that debacle of a game with […]