DESHAUN’S TROUBLE, EXPECTING BIG THINGS FROM POLAR BEAR & ‘STUDENT-ATHLETES’ ON CENTER STAGE...
You always go back to something the great Pete Hamill told me when he was editing this newspaper, after a couple of Dallas Cowboys players were accused of sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint, and people immediately wanted them thrown out of the league:
Charges are not arrests, arrests are not indictments, indictments are not convictions.
It was true then, when that story fell apart.
It is true now with Deshaun Watson.
This story is developing and will continue to develop and new information will continue to come in.
No one is saying Watson has officially punched his ticket to Weinstein Island.
But just off what we have learned so far, it seems that he is in a world of trouble.
Maybe Drew Brees will turn out to be great in the broadcast booth.
But Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth on Sunday nights are still as good as it gets on pro football.
You don’t have to love tennis the way I do to appreciate what a wonderful story Aslan Karatsev, the 27-year-old qualifier who seemed to come from the moon to make it to the Australian Open semis, has made himself since then.
On Friday he beat another, and much more prominent
Russian player — Andrey Rublev — in three sets to make it to the semifinals in Dubai.
And you sure don’t have to love golf to appreciate what a sight it has been the two weekends before this watching 47-year-old Lee Westwood make the run he did at the Arnold Palmer, and then in The Players Championship.
You knew the NCAA men’s tournament had started on Thursday when only one team in the first three play-in games scored more than 60 points.
Does Tom Izzo ever go back and look at replays of himself screaming at his players the way he does?
If I I’m Steve Cohen and Sandy Alderson, I don’t let a new contract for Frankie Lindor become a thing.
I will say this again:
The Polar Bear is going to be great this season.
And if Pete Alonso starts taking a lot of walks now that he has more help than ever in the batting order, look out.
Thor better get healthy fast now that Carrasco is gone for a couple of months.
That 3-year, $63 million contract for Julius Randle is looking better and better, right?
No kidding, I really do love it, especially now that they’ve moved the tournament and all these players to the state of Indiana, when I hear the announcers and the guys running the post-game media seasons refer to the players as “student-athletes.”
You know what they are? Content.
Who told Phil Mickelson those Highway Patrol, license-and-registration-please sunglasses are a good look?
By the way, when you hear that Deshaun Watson had to import masseuses it takes you back to when Tiger Woods had to import Dr. Anthony Galea from Toronto to work on his knee, because apparently all the orthopedic specialists in America were busy that day.
Andrew Giuliani is becoming a commentator for Newsmax?
What, they got the rights to next year’s Honda Classic?