Adrian&#39;s let kids down
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JOSE MOURINHO has accused Adrian Mutu of destroying the dreams of the thousands of young fans who idolised him. The Chelsea boss revealed how the club called in the dope testers when they suspected their Romanian ace was taking cocaine.
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Successful athletes don&#39;t make the team because of their mediation skills. They are bullies with a purpose. If sportsman-like conduct isn&#39;t called forth during high testosterone moments, all is typically lost.
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Several starting spots may have been usurped or at least threatened after relatively solid understudy showings Sunday, but few players welcome the kind of shot delivered to Oakland
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CHARLOTTE Â· The kids certainly were having fun, but for the Heat this hardly was child&#39;s play. In front of a energetic, student-only crowd of about 13,000 middle-schoolers, the Heat received
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Let's see. Shaun Alexander was irate and felt like he got "stabbed in the back." Randy Moss was so furious he headed to the locker room while his team was still on the field with only a glimmer of hope. John Lynch was seething because it cost him $75,000 to nearly end a player's season with a cheap shot.
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DETROIT - Joey Harrington is one of the NFL&#39;s most inept quarterbacks. And that&#39;s when nothing is wrong with him. He was ill Sunday.
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Unless there&#39;s an extenuating circumstance - see the University of Arizona last September - it&#39;s generally considered poor form to change football coaches in midseason.
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Auburn&#39;s bludgeoning of the Vols was a painful reminder that growing pains are part of the SEC schedule. As talented as Erik Ainge and Brent Schaeffer may be, neither was prepared for the kind of reality check that Auburn cashed last night.
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After last year&#39;s stunning NL Division Series loss to the Marlins, one of the major knocks on the Giants was their relative lack of speed and their inability to put pressure on the opposing team.
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At the Jazz and Laker game, I realized there was something noticeably absent from the rafters. No, not the name of a waste management company, we have one of those. It was Adrian Dantley's retired jersey.
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Eli Manning&#39;s inexperience was exposed in his latest pre-season game as the New York Giants went down 17-10 to local rivals the Jets.
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My two boys are being schoogled, and I don't like it.
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You don&#39;t win anything with kids, an esteemed football pundit once famously said. You do, of course - Manchester United proved that more than once in the 90s - but only if those youngsters are made of the right stuff.
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Barry Zito did all he could to keep Oakland&#39;s hopes alive on Saturday, but in a rehash of the team&#39;s early-season bullpen problems, the A&#39;s relievers could not hold on to a lead, and this time, it cost them everything.
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The problem, however, isn&#39;ta week of leftover turkey, stuffing or pumpkin pie. An overdose of Butch Davis news, and the coach&#39;s future with the Cleveland Browns, is enough to make any stomach sour.
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When his positive dope test was confirmed, Adrian Mutu forgot to blame someone for spiking his drinks. Odd this, because athletics, swimming and cycling have taught us that
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There are opportunities, there are missed opportunities, and then there&#39;s what Florida did on Saturday. Ron Zook and the Gators fell to 4-3 on Saturday.