Big game for Big Blue, how about them Royals & fun with Geno and Rex . . .
The last time I was this fired up for a Giants football game in the regular season was, like, the last time the Giants were actually good.
I just can’t frankly remember when that was.
Let’s just say the Florida State investigation of Jameis Winston is looking less and less like some old episode of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.”
Less than a month until the last six episodes of “The Newsroom.” The Royals, in their first five playoff games, against the A’s and Angels and Orioles, had already won more extra-inning games in a single postseason than any team in the history of Major League Baseball.
It means they’ve gotten extrainning games off the Oakland team that once had the best record in baseball, the team that ended up with the best regular-season record and the team — the Orioles — playing the best as baseball’s Final Four began.
There’s an expression in tennis that has always covered a surprise like this:
It’s why they put the net up.
Okay, when did the state of Mississippi become the cradle of college football? That’s what I’d like to know. The good news for Geno, apparently, is that he’s the only guy who doesn’t need to turn off his cell phone at the movies, because he doesn’t get service!
It is probably safe to assume at this point that the movie he saw, if he did see one, wasn’t “The Fault in Our Stars.”
You start to wonder how Rex Ryan being this big players’ coach we hear about all the time is helping him these days.
You know what would help a guy who looks like nothing more than the outgoing coach of the Jets?
Beat the Broncos on Sunday afternoon.
Beat the Broncos the way Rex and the Jets beat the 6-1 Saints last season when they came to Jersey looking like a team on its way to a Super Bowl.
Have the Jets come out as if their helmets have been set on fire the way the Patriots did last Sunday night against the Bengals.
And by the way?
Rex acted insulted being compared to Herm Edwards this past week, even though Herm’s regularseason record with the Jets was two games under .500 and Rex’s, at least for the time being, is one game over .500 .
We are constantly told that the Jets have just about the greatest
defensive minds on the planet, so maybe this is the day when the Jets defense might actually get a big stop.
I like our coach, I do, but one thing never seems to change with him: He
acts like he’s more a Lombardi than a Ryan.
Chris Bosh says that he and LeBron haven’t really talked since LeBron went back to Cleveland and I care about this ... why?
It is obvious what kind of character Tom Coughlin has, and a talent for coaching — even around the sketchy seasons on his Giants resume — that produced two of the greatest championships in the history of sports around here.
But the thing to love the most about Coach Coughlin is that he has never tried to be anyone other than himself, never begged the media to love him, never sold out his own oldschool values.
So it was hardly a shocker this week when he didn’t exactly engage in the dumb chirp around Giants vs. Eagles on Sunday night.
Coughlin: “Talk is cheap, play the game. That is my message. I would be the worst person in the world to
ask that because I really don’t approve of it. I don’t know what it has to do with anything, except sells papers and makes for talk show stuff.” That’s it and that’s all. Nothing has changed since those punks robbed Yogi Berra’s muse
um the other night:
If you know the people who did it, or think you know, call the cops.
A manager like Don Mattingly is defenseless in a short series when his ace pitches the way Clayton Ker
shaw did.
But it is ironic, and one of the best things about baseball, that the Dodgers lost because Kershaw ended up pitching to one batter too many and the Nationals ultimately lost because their manager, Matt Williams, took
Jordan Zimmerman out one batter too soon.
When does Katy Perry get her own college football show?
This back-and-forth between the Giants and Eagles this week — was any of it funny?
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