[3 Jan 2011 | View Comments | ]
Rewarding Mediocrity:The Rise of the Seattle Seahawks

Typically, the National Football League is not the place where you would see the celebration of below average play, yet you would be hard pressed to find a team more amped about a 7-9 finish than the Seattle Seahawks.
That is because the Seahawks have made the NFL Playoffs with a losing record. You read that correctly : A team thatlost more games than it won, is one of the final 12 teams in contention for the Lombardi Trophy.
The Seahawks made the playoffs over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Giants, …

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[3 Jan 2011 | View Comments | ]
Rewarding Mediocrity:The Rise of the Seattle Seahawks

Typically, the National Football League is not the place where you would see the celebration of below average play, yet you would be hard pressed to find a team more amped about a 7-9 finish than the Seattle Seahawks.
That is because the Seahawks have made the NFL Playoffs with a losing record. You read that correctly : A team thatlost more games than it won, is one of the final 12 teams in contention for the Lombardi Trophy.
The Seahawks made the playoffs over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Giants, …

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[2 Jan 2011 | View Comments | ]
4 Reasons I love the Cleveland Browns

In an NFL season that has been anything but normal, I fell in love with an unlikely partner. The Cleveland Browns, a storied franchise that has contributed tons of historic moments to the history of the NFL, is what I consider to be, the most intriguing team in the NFL. Here are a few of the reasons why…
1. A young secondary on the verge of stardom

If it was not for Ndamukong Suh being an unstoppable force in Detroit, you would have heard the names T.J. Ward and Joe Haden as …

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[20 Dec 2010 | View Comments | ]
The Brew Crew, The Celts, Agent Zero & True Grit

A lot has gone on in the world of sports in the last 48 hours…and while lots of this stuff has been talked and analyzed to death, I have a few things to say…
Greinke for President!
The Brewers are making an effort to be legit. Really. I first caught wind of the Zach Greinke to Brewers trade as I was glancing over my Twitter feed on the way to work. I thought to myself “Huh? Never woulda guessed he ended up there, who’d the Brewers give up?”
I expected to see that …

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[17 Dec 2010 | View Comments | ]
What in the name of Mark Rypien is going on?

The news out of Washington DC is telling us that Donovan McNabb is being benched for this weeks game against the Dallas Cowboys in favor of the usually less than spectacular Rex Grossman.
On Thursday, first year Washington coach Mike Shanahan informed McNabb–a former Pro Bowl quarterback– that he would not be starting the final 3 games of the season. Shanahan went on to tell McNabb that he is not even sure if he will be a member of the Redskins next season, which of course comes as a shock to …

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[9 Jun 2010 | View Comments | ]
Perfection & The Future

As I sit here writing this, 18 hours away from what will surely be the most important moment in my life, I can’t help but reflect on the last 18 months, and wonder where I would be without her. What if she hadn’t come into Best Buy looking for a movie I had never heard of, one spring day in 2009?
Without the woman who loves me for me. Without the woman who has put up with more of my crap in the last year and a half, than any one …