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Last night I saw a promo for the Golf Channel promoting the 2010 season. There were several clips of famous golfers, one of whom was Phil Mickelson. No clips of Woods were shown.

This reminds me of some earlier posts of mine referring to free agents in pro football. I had noted that in the NFL, white free agents would sign with teams that would not use them very much. White players at positions like WR seemed oblivious to the idea of making certain of being in a good...

I just looked up Terry Bradshaw's stats. He had 7 300 yard games, and 3 of those were in the playoffs, 2 being Super Bowls in which Bradshaw was MVP. Bradshaw completed 17 of 30 for 318 yards and 4 TD's as the Steelers beat Dallas in Super Bowl XIII. This was Bradshaw's first game of over 300...

The same thing has been said to me.

In today's LA Times, Bill Plaschke wonders if Tiger has been using PED's because a doctor who peddles them had treated him. Plaschke writes: "From the back the dude looked like Barry Bonds. His neck was oddly wide. His shoulders were absurdly broad. His biceps were bursting out of a tight...

The latest on Woods is that he wired money to women (for silence) and had an association with a doctor who distributed PED's. These are just allegations, for now.

The above paragraph by Don is especially pertinent now: "Interesting isn't it that in this revolting era of media hounding of celebrities, Woods' personal life is left totally unscrutinized. No Papparazzi waiting outside his estate to follow him, no photographs of him ever except on the golf...

"Evan Moore was brought off the practice squad and instantly became the best receiver on the team." I really like that sentence.

I agree. Assuming Gerhart gets a chance to be a feature RB, it will be easier to break in as the Heisman runner-up than as the Heisman winner.

The year 1968 was the Year Of The Pitcher. Most every pitcher had a good year. Juan Marichal was 25-9 for the Giants, Luis Tiant went 21-9 for Cleveland. Steve Blass was 18-6 for Pittsburgh. As I have written, a big reason Gibson is always rated so high is because he had his best games in the...

Steve Owens was an I-formation tailback during his 1967-69 career at Oklahoma. Owens played fullback with the Detroit Lions from 1970-74, gaining over a thousand yards in 1971.

In the past, if Heisman contenders are about equal, a senior usually gets the nod over an underclassman.

You didn't have widespread use of the I formation tailback in pro football until the 1970's. Before that, teams used what was called the Pro Set, a HB and FB lined up side by side directly behind the QB. On some teams the FB got most of the carries, on others it was the HB.

I once read that in television, the commercials are what is important, not the program. The football game is just something to get you to turn on the TV. The commercials influencing the viewer to buy the products are why television programming exists.

For an "academic" school, Stanford always has put some emphasis on having a good football team. This goes back to the early days of college football to Pop Warner with Ernie Nevers in the 1920's and the "Vow Boys" of the 1930's. In the modern era, Stanford is able to recruit "skill" players...

Don, This reminds me of a post you made several months ago. You wrote that the media leaves Tiger's private life alone, and the obsession with celebrities is a mostly all-white phenomenom. We will see how this turns out when the facts are known, assuming the whole story eventually comes out.

There were more white running backs than Riggins and James to have 1000-yard seasons since Jim Taylor. At least one HOFer, Csonka. Also Hubbard and Van Eeghen with Oakland, Granger in 1967 with Houston, even Jim Otis with the 1975 Cardinals.

There is no way Davis would have played Russell at QB 40 years ago.

To win the Heisman, you pretty much have to be nationally famous going into the season. There have been exceptions, but not too many. I first heard the term "Heisman Trophy Candidate" in 1967, I believe. It referred to Gary Beban and O.J. Simpson. Beban won the Heisman with O.J. second. Beban...

As somebody wrote a few days ago, it wouldn't hurt him to lose weight down to 225-227.

I've watched NFL QB's on TV since 1958 and Peyton Manning is the most skilled QB I have ever seen and QB is by far the most important position in America's major sport. During the end-of-century retrospectives, Jim Brown was named the best football player ever on the grounds that he was better...

Daryle Lamonica's production starting declining around 1970 when zone defenses took away his long passing game. That year, 43-year old George Blanda relieved Lamonica often and became a national sensation with his late-game heroics. In 1973, Ken Stabler replaced Lamonica as the Raider...

True enough. You don't see this kind of catch in the NFL as often as you did decades ago.

It is worth noting that if you have higher academic standards for athletes, your teams will be more white. I have seen this called a negative.

Yes, I remember when that happened.