Sports
How about Nobody for Heisman?
By JOHN CRUMPACKER
Friday, November 24, 2006
With the college football season rounding third and heading for home _ to use a misplaced metaphor _ it's time to reveal my choice for the 2006 Heisman Trophy, the most overblown award in all of sports.
Opposites won't attract in L.A.: Other notes
By B.G. BROOKS
Friday, November 24, 2006
Pete Carroll and Charlie Weis aren't close enough _ and likely never will be _ to be The Odd Couple.
Carroll, Southern California's coach, likes pickup hoops and boogie boarding.
New acquisitions cost Reds $20 million
By MARC LANCASTER
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The official acknowledgement Monday of the two worst-kept secrets in Cincinnati baseball probably did little to alleviate the sticker shock felt by the Reds' bookkeepers.
In committing nearly $20 million to shortstop Alex Gonzalez and left-hander Mike Stanton, the Reds addressed areas of need on their in-flux roster while also facing up to the realities of the economic climate in which they find themselves this winter.
Rematch talk irks Meyer: Other SEC notes
By RON HIGGINSTuesday, November 21, 2006Give Florida coach Urban Meyer a place in line, next to Southern Cal's Pete Carroll, Notre Dame's Charlie Weis and Arkansas's Houston Nutt. They all hope that the Bowl Championship Series doesn't re-match current No.
Smith unanimous pick atop Scripps Heisman Poll
ByTuesday, November 21, 2006Unless something unbelievable happens, Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith has reduced the race for the Heisman Trophy to a mere formality.With his terrific four-touchdown pass performance in Saturday's 42-39 win over No.
Nuggets thrilled by thievery of Smith
By CHRIS TOMASSON
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The 20th century saw The Great Train Robbery and the Brinks Job. The 21st century so far has the J.R. Smith trade.
The Denver Nuggets in July acquired Smith, a shooting guard, from Chicago, for next to nothing.
Hogs' Houston finally grabs hold of interceptions
By RON HIGGINSTuesday, November 21, 2006Finally, 30 games into his college career, a football floated into Arkansas junior cornerback Chris Houston's hands ... and it stuck. Mississippi State quarterback Michael Henig didn't see Houston, one of the Southeastern Conference's best cover corners, and Houston collected his first interception on Saturday wearing a Razorback uniform.
Plummer better get going _ or else
By DAVE KRIEGER
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The good Jake Plummer returns Thanksgiving night in Kansas City or rookie Jay Cutler becomes the Denver Broncos starting quarterback 10 days later at home against Seattle.
Rating the Patriots so far
By SHALISE MANZA YOUNG
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Journal Sports Writer
So, technically, we've passed the halfway point of the season, but there's nothing that says we can't take stock of the New England Patriots' performance and fortunes after 10 games.
Call it the five-eighths season report.
Since we're generally loathe to administer grades _ for one thing, we won't pretend to know that much about the intricacies of the game, and for another, we left A through F behind at Syracuse _ let's use pluses/minuses/incompletes instead.
Steelers try to stay focused
By ED BOUCHETTE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Two years ago, Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger suited up for his first game in Baltimore expecting to do what he did in his first professional game the previous week: Watch from the sideline as Tommy Maddox played quarterback.
Everything changed that afternoon.
