The Vig

Did you know that Eugene Oregon’s own David Vobora was selected as this year’s Mr. Irrelevant in the NFL draft?  The honor goes each year to the last player selected.

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Here’s a bizarre story out of the NBA. The Hawks and Heat will be re-play the final :51 of a December game before their March 8th game in Atlanta. From the AOL FanHouse:
Shaquille O’Neal fouled out with 51 seconds left with the Heat down by one point; the Hawks went on to win [...]

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Conflicting reports out of the desert suggest Cardinals o-line coach Russ Grimm has interviewed with Redskins owner Daniel Snider about his vacant head coach position. ProFootballTalk.com says it’s true. Kent Somers, Cardinals beat reporter for the Arizona Republic, says it’s not.
Grimm, a founding member of the Hogs, is an obvious candidate for the [...]

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Blazers: Did I mention I picked up a ticket package a few weeks back? I gave a few of the seats away for Christmas and will no doubt be giving a few more out as things come up down the line. 20 games for $100 is a helluva deal. Yesterday’s game [...]

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This will teach me not to get a day gig.  I miss out on too many important memos.
I went to work this morning safe in the knowledge that Bill Parcells was the new general manager of the Atlanta Falcons.  I spent 8-hours in the Lloyd District relearning telecom, one of the true geeky joys of [...]

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So the Cards are in second place in the NFC West. And as things sit this week, they actually occupy the final wild card slot. It’s funny how things seem to work out when you’ve got a competent coaching staff and a decent o-line. The game just sort of plays itself. [...]

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If you missed Big Sexy on Jim Rome yesterday, you missed a treat.  He had former NFL’er Jeff George on as his sidekick.  It was quite entertaining.  He probed the depths of the Kansas-Missouri rivalry and how this weekend’s huge game means more to those two states than probably any other football rivalry in the [...]

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It’s been a lot of fun having the soccer defenders over for the weekend. My hit meter has been going through the roof. So I’d like to thank you all for participating. A few of you got whacked for a) language and b) name-calling. But overall, I think it was a [...]

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I honestly didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to this week’s visit to Portland by Major League Soccer Commissioner Dan Garber. I figured he was blowing into town to drum up some support for bringing his league to our fair city and that would pretty much be that. What we got instead [...]

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The guys on Sports Business Radio last night blasted Bud Selig for putting the baseball playoffs on TBS rather than ESPN or another better known network.  They suggested the move is a continuation of baseball’s current strategy of spinning every last piece of available straw into gold no matter the consequence.  They also stated TBS [...]

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