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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The constant variety of blunders
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jeff Schultz
THE TUESDAY COUNTDOWN
10: So what were the odds that drugs, steroids and bar fights would become relatively minor problems for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, relative to … dog fighting?
9: This must occupy a greater part of the landscape that any of us realized, given Clinton Portis’ reaction to the Michael Vick situation. Said Portis: “I know a lot of back roads that got a dog fight if you want to go see it. …. I’m sure there’s some police got some dogs that are fighting them, some judges got dogs and everything else.”
8: And, I mean, what’s the big deal, right? Because as Portis said, even if Vick is tried and convicted, it would be “putting him behind bars for no reason. … I don’t know if he was fighting dogs or not. But it’s his property; it’s his dogs. If that’s what he wants to do, do it.”
7: For more on this subject, Portis can be reached at his corner booth at the Club Neanderthal.
6: Solid organizations don’t need to depend on a ping-pong ball for success. And then, there are the Hawks.
5: So tonight, we watch the lottery. They end up with two of the top first 15 picks, or one, or none. But I guess it’s good news that it’s all luck and not a front office decision.
4: When Andruw Jones bats .212 and strikes out five times in one game in a free agency year, he has to answer to somebody worse than Bobby Cox, his manager: Scott Boras, his agent.
3: The Cincinnati Bengals have waived A.J. Nicholson. The Raiders and Leavenworth put in claims.
2: Thirty-three years later, George Foreman says he was drugged when he lost to Muhammad Ali in Zaire. He makes these claims in a new book. Something tells me sales of the George Foreman Grill have fallen off.
1: Portis just issued a statement through the Redskins saying he doesn’t endorse dog fighting. I think I liked him better when he was scum, but honest.
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