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The NFL made the right decision at the wrong time
It looks like overreacting, doing it in the middle of the season.
MITCH BLATT
I wrote a few days ago about why I thought the NFL was right to take a hard-line against helmet-to-helmet hits. However, while the NFL may have taken the right policy, they did it at the completely wrong time.
Why wait [...]
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Taking a wait and see approach to new NFL rules
Is the NFL prepared to reinvent its sport over night, or is their new league-wide law (in effect immediately) more of a scare tactic?
SCOTT JACOBS
It seems like the NFL is trying to extract the violence without taking away the action. It seems that Roger Goodell and friends are trying to make an incredibly dangerous sport [...]
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The NFL is right to ban dirty hits
Is there any other sport where players headbutt each other?
MITCH BLATT
With players suffering from concussions and from permanent disability after retirement, the NFL made the right move to finally enforce their ban against helmet-to-helmet dirty hits. Naturally, some defensive players–who play on the boring side of the ball, I should point out, just to [...]
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Week Six Picks (Against the Spread)
JIM RUBERA
(Rubera writes for The Spop)
Last Week: 9-5 / Best Bets: 1-2 / Monday Night: 1-0
Overall: 33-40 / Best Bets: 7-8-1 / Monday Night: 4-2
San Diego –8.5 @ St. Louis
This HAS to happen. HAS TO! The LIONS hung 44 on the Rams!
Houston –4.5 @ Kansas City
The Chiefs are still a tough out at home and [...]
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Double Coverage: Week 6, the picks
Better late than never. After a rare off week, our resident pickatologist is back. And he’s resting his hopes on… the Lions?
MIKE KAYE
Last Week’s Record: 5-8 / Season Record: 40-31 / Guest Pick: 3-2 (1-0 last week)
Miserable week of picks, miserable week period. My computer broke that why my beloved fans are getting my [...]
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BetUs Presents: Inside the Lines Week Six
Inside the Lines take their week six show to Glendale, Arizona, to talk Cardinals fans, trash talking, and the game of the week
SCOTT JACOBS
Kenyon Rasheed traveled to the Giant Toaster to see the (Arizona, not Phoenix) Cardinals take on the Who Dat Nation, and the New Orleans Saints. Inside this week’s edition: some good ‘ol [...]
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Double Coverage: Week Five
Why you shouldn’t be surprised that Dallas and Minnesota are struggling, why the NFL’s Breast Cancer ribboned balls are not something to complain over, and what in the world has happened to San Diego? This is Double Coverage. Week cinco. Not to be confused with Ocho-Cinco
MIKE KAYE
Last week’s columns, part 1 and part 2 can [...]
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Hockey: A game for 10-year-olds who never grow up
MITCH BLATT
Remember when you were 10 years old how fun it was to get in fights at school?
NHL players get into fights every game, sucker punching each other with intent to assault, getting into six fights in two minutes and intentionally breaking each others’ jaws.
Hockey is essentially legalized assault. Crime on ice. In [...]
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