Sports Lynx Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!First Alan Faneca, a guard, gets $40mm over 5 yrs from the NY Jets. In the interim the Jets had already traded for Carolina disappointment Kris Jenkins (DT), then they try to trade Dwayne Robertson to Cincinnati..whoa hold on […]

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In my post the other day I said the NFL free agency period would begin and leave many of us scratching our collective heads. Well the past few days has either proven me to be a prophet or old enough to know how this works. Let me start with some examples, Tommy Kelly, a 6″ […]

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In roughly 1 hour the crazy spending period known as NFL free agency will begin. The smart teams, which usually means the good ones, spend most of their time and money trying to retain their own free agents. The dumb teams, which are the bad ones, spend most of their energy signing players to contracts […]

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We’ve all heard the saying that even a “blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while” well that’s how I feel about the NCAA ruling yesterday to restore 8 wins originally taken from the Oklahoma Sooners football program in the 2005 season. If you recall some of my earlier postings, I was ranting about […]

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Can you feel it in the air, spring training is upon us! No matter what the knuckleheads in Congress, Bud Selig, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite or whomever do; they can’t kill Major League Baseball. I love baseball as I am sure many of you do as well. I am really excited about the upcoming season […]

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If anyone watched O.J Mayo’s 4 point, 10 turnover performance Sunday vs UCLA, it’s evident that this guy isn’t ready for the NBA yet. While Mayo turning pro after his freshman year at USC would be a big mistake, it would be a bigger mistake if he did and some NBA team took this guy […]

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Kelvin Sampson is a cheater right? Maybe he is but guess what so is just about every NCAA D-I coach in some way shape or form, some don’t even know it. You see, my guess is that if one thoroughly investigated every NCAA D-I program, you’d find violations; some major and some minor. The reason […]

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The failed trade of Jason Kidd from the Nets to the Mavericks is turning out to be kind of funny, at least to me. First, we have a reserve like Devan George blocking the trade. So what does Dallas coach Avery Johnson do to sway George’s opinion and hopefully get him to accept the trade; […]

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I was just reading that Congressman Waxman, the gentleman who headed up the hearing with Clemens the other day doesn’t think a hearing was necessary. Huh? This is the Congressman who grilled Clemens harder than anyone else and he doesn’t think the hearing was necessary! I am losing my mind, I am. How do these […]

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This has been sticking in my mind for the past few days, why is Senator Arlen Spector sticking his nose (and it’s a big one!) into the NFL’s business with respect to the New England Patriots? I know Specter is an ardent Eagles fan but my good God, he’s a U.S. Senator not some knucklehead […]

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