Should there be a asterisk for Bogie and Dino?

Should there be a asterisk for Bogie and Dino?

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All this crap about going into sports figures personal problems is such a witch hunt any more. Is there an asterisk next to Babe Ruth 's name? no! Why is that?
Ruth ""At 6 feet 2 inches and 235 pounds, Ruth is deluxe model drinking machine. The epitome of the functional alcoholic, Ruth was capable of hammering down a bathtub full of beer and two bottles of rye, closing his eyes for two hours, then rise to smack three homers out of the park. None of his hard-drinking baseball contemporaries could keep up with him and he is reputed to have never been beaten in a drinking bout.""
They need to let it rest and quit changing history on us. I mean $^% Come on even away from sports , Pluto is a planet. For all my life it was taught that Pluto is a planet. So last year all of a sudden these knuckle heads say that Pluto is just a rock. Come on! Come on! " Let it be let it be"
Should the Patriots get an asterisk? i say noway. The reason is that every team films the opponet's game, its an unsaid common. There is cheating on every play. There is holding on every play of the game. I personally do not like the Pats I wanted them to lose to the Giants so in fact I despise the Pats but the thing is I love the game. If they go unbeaten with a Super Bowl win, then they deserve to be ther greatest of all time in the NFL. http://pueblocoloradosports.blogspot.com/

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NFL counts on Patriots to up ratings

GOAL: The Patriots’ Tom Brady could break the record for single-season touchdown passes tonight against the Giants and lead New England to the NFL's first 16-0 regular season.
(Elise Amendola / AP)
December 23, 2007





The Patriots are seeking to become only the second team in the modern era to go undefeated in the regular season (the 1972 Miami Dolphins were the other). Until Wednesday, the plan was to show the potentially historic game exclusively on the NFL Network. But the NFL bowed to intense political pressure, notably from 2004 presidential hopeful Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), earlier this week and agreed to simulcast the game on CBS and NBC, which are already league broadcast partners.

Sacramento State 60, Northern Colorado 74

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) -- Sean Taibi scored a season-high 24 points and Jabril Banks added 16 as Northern Colorado defeated Sacramento State 74-60 in the Big Sky Conference opener for both teams Friday night.

Taibi, the school's all-time 3-point leader with 226, was 6-for-10 from 3-point range. Banks scored 11 of his points in the second half as Northern Colorado (6-6, 1-0 Big Sky Conference) snapped a four-game losing streak.

Vinnie McGhee had four 3-pointers and 19 pointers to lead Sacramento State (2-9, 0-1). Clark Woods had 11, but Big Sky Conference leading scorer Justin Williams, a 17-point a game scorer, managed only four points.

Sacramento State lost it's 14th straight road game. The Hornets last won away from home on Dec. 30, 2006 when they beat Northern Colorado.

Northern Colorado led 31-28 at the half and quickly built a 13 point lead in the second half.

McGhee's 3-pointer and a short jumper got Sacramento State to within six points, 61-55, before Northern Colorado responded with an 11-2 run keyed by Banks' emphatic dunk off a rebound and Taibi's two 3-pointers and layup off a steal. The Bears pulled away to a 71-57 lead with 1:58 remaining.


Sacramento State Hornets
STARTERS MIN FGM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST PF PTS
R Adams 18 0-2 0-0 1 5 1 1 0
J. Williams, G-F 21 2-5 0-1 0 3 2 4 4
V McGhee Jr. 22 7-12 1-2 0 0 3 3 19
C. Woods, G 29 4-9 2-4 0 2 2 2 11
L. Leath, G 24 1-11 2-2 0 2 0 0 5
BENCH MIN FGM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST PF PTS
D Ferguson 14 1-2 0-0 1 3 1 3 2
D. Thomas, G-F 14 1-3 3-4 1 2 2 0 6
A. Young, G 18 3-6 1-1 0 2 1 1 7
W Aboubakar 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
S. Schulte, NA 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
J. Davis, F 14 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 1 0
J Eller 22 3-3 0-0 0 2 0 1 6
TOTALS FGM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST PF PTS
22-53 9-14 3 22 12 16 60
41.5% 64.3%
TEAM REBS: 1
TURNOVERS: 18 (L Leath 4, A Young 3, D Thomas 1, J Davis 1, D Ferguson 1, V McGhee Jr. 1, J Williams 2, J Eller 3, S Schulte 1, C Woods 1)
BLOCKED SHOTS: 1 (A Young 1)
STEALS: 11 (L Leath 1, J Davis 1, V McGhee Jr. 1, J Williams 4, J Eller 1, C Woods 3)
3-PT FGS: 7-17, .412 (L Leath 1-6, D Thomas 1-1, V McGhee Jr. 4-6, C Woods 1-4)

Northern Colorado Bears
STARTERS MIN FGM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST PF PTS
J Banks 30 4-6 7-8 1 8 0 2 16
T Montgomery 31 1-5 0-0 2 3 1 3 2
R Palacios 28 1-5 0-0 3 6 4 1 2
T. Panagiotakopoulos, G 19 0-5 0-0 1 3 4 4 0
D. Beitzel, G 8 1-4 0-0 0 1 1 0 2
BENCH MIN FGM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST PF PTS
W. Figures, G 15 2-4 1-1 0 3 2 0 6
S. Taibi, G 27 9-16 0-0 1 6 2 0 24
T. Anderson, G 4 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 1 0
M Garrett 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
N. Kingman, F 15 3-7 4-4 2 4 0 2 11
J. Mason, G-F 17 4-5 3-3 1 4 0 1 11
TOTALS FGM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST PF PTS
25-57 15-16 11 40 14 15 74
43.9% 93.8%
TEAM REBS: 3
TURNOVERS: 24 (W Figures 2, T Montgomery 2, R Palacios 4, M Garrett 2, T Anderson 1, S Taibi 1, T Panagiotakopoulos 2, N Kingman 1, J Mason 3, J Banks 5, D Beitzel 1)
BLOCKED SHOTS: 0
STEALS: 9 (T Montgomery 1, R Palacios 1, S Taibi 2, T Panagiotakopoulos 2, N Kingman 1, J Mason 1, D Beitzel 1)
3-PT FGS: 9-21, .429 (W Figures 1-1, T Montgomery 0-1, S Taibi 6-10, T Panagiotakopoulos 0-2, N Kingman 1-3, J Mason 0-1, J Banks 1-1, D Beitzel 0-2)


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Monday night mouthiness creates a flap in Denver

SEAN HAFFEY
/ Union-Tribune

Chargers QB Philip Rivers has been known to occasionally open his mouth during games.

Philip Rivers got the Denver Broncos bucking mad, and he doesn't really understand why.

“I don't know what the big deal is,” the Chargers quarterback said yesterday.

Two days after the Chargers beat them, the Broncos were still talking about Rivers and his mouth.

“I don't really care for the guy, first of all,” Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey told the Rocky Mountain News yesterday. “He's not a respectable guy right now, because you talk too much trash and do this and that, but you're really not a great player in this league right now. You're surrounded by great players, but you're not a great player.

“I think he needs to understand where he stands in this league – on his team first and foremost. They've got a lot of classy guys on that team. He kind of represents the classless guy on that team. He's definitely lost my respect.”

Even before Monday night's game Bailey told ESPN he didn't like Rivers because of how much Rivers talks.

In fact, someone told Rivers about the ESPN report during the game and he asked Bailey on the field, “Champ, what's up? I thought we were tight.”

Rivers talks almost constantly on the field. He considers it part of the game and loves getting into exchanges with opponents.

“I talked no more in that game than any game in my life,” he said. “ . . . We get after our guys more in practice than in that game.”

Bailey and other Broncos spoke yesterday in response to questions about Rivers being caught on camera yelling toward the Broncos during the fourth quarter, long after he had been taken out of the game in the 23-3 rout.

After a failed fourth-down pass by Jay Cutler, Rivers was shown going a few steps onto the field to greet linebackers Shaun Phillips and Matt Wilhelm. While doing so, he was looking toward the Broncos.

“We get a fourth-down stop,” Rivers recalled yesterday. “I'm not in the game anymore, so I'm way into the defense more than I normally am. . . . Matt Wilhelm and Shaun Phillips, those guys have been jawing the whole game with them. We get a good stop. They are jawing. I'm not anywhere involved. I come out to congratulate them on the stop, and while I'm out there, yeah, there is some eye contact, but I'm saying, 'Atta baby' to Matt Wilhelm and Shaun Phillips. Sure there is eye contact. Maybe there is a smirk. But I am speaking to my guys.”

Cutler could be seen at midfield looking in their direction, and Phillips said yesterday that it was Cutler who started the talking.

“It's funny,” Phillips said. “Philip walked out and told us not to say anything, that we're winning. And Cutler is yelling. . . . Cutler does a lot of talking. I thought it was funny they were talking and losing.”

Phillips said in the fourth quarter Cutler was “just letting us know he wasn't a punk. I respect that. He was letting us know he'd see us next time.”

In the exchange, Wilhelm was seen waving good-bye to the Broncos, and Phillips was pointing at the scoreboard.

But there was immediate reaction from the television commentators and in the ensuing days from fans about how the behavior was unbecoming for Rivers.

Rivers has heard the talk for more than a year that he gets too riled up during games. He has long maintained it's simply how he plays and that it even helps him.

“I'm not going to change,” he said. “ . . . I'm not saying I'm trying to be the guy who goes nuts and acts crazy. That's not who I am. But the thing is there are no bad intentions. It's all in fun.”

Other Chargers defended Rivers.

“What they've got to understand is Philip is a football player,” tight end Antonio Gates said. “If they put him in that category it wouldn't be a problem. But since he's a quarterback, quarterbacks stereotypically shouldn't say or do or act a certain kind of way on the field.

“That's the thing that's not known about him. We know him as a person. He does it in the locker room, in practice, on the field. He plays the game with his heart. That's why he's that way.”

Rivers also explained yesterday another time he was caught talking by ESPN's cameras on Monday. Rivers said after a play in which Broncos linebacker Jamie Winborn had gotten past fullback Andrew Pinnock, Winborn came near the Chargers sideline and yelled, “Where's Lo Neal?”

Rivers said he yelled back, “The ball is over there,” and then yelled to Winborn, “You're glad he ain't playing.”

Cutler said yesterday the Broncos had discussed Rivers' antics.

“It's an unfortunate situation,” he said. “They talk a lot of stuff. It got heated between the two teams. Personally, I don't think the teams like each other, which is fine. It's just going to add to it later next year and the year after that. It should be exciting.”

Of all the teams to question what Rivers has done, Denver seems an odd antagonist.

In four career starts against the Broncos, Rivers has a 119.8 passer rating, and the Chargers have won all four by an average of 39-13. In those games, he has completed 69.6 of his passes for 960 yards and seven touchdowns with two interceptions.

“I understand some of the frustration is they've lost four in a row to this team,” Rivers said. “People don't like losing four in a row.”

Favre breaks Marino's passing yardage record

The longest yards
Brett Favre passed Dan Marino on the NFL’s all-time list for passing yards with a 7-yard pass to Donald Driver in the fourth quarter of the Packers' 33-14 win at St. Louis.
Quarterback	Yards	Comp.	Att.	Years	Games
1. Brett Favre	61,405	5,351	8,715	17	255
2. Dan Marino	61,361	4,967	8,358	17	242
3. John Elway	51,475	4,123	7,250	16	234
4. Warren Moon	49,325	3,988	6,823	17	208
5. Fran Tarkenton	47,003	3,787	6,701	21	233

Family ties make Broncos-Texans compelling

Thursday night's game between the Denver Broncos and Houston Texans is truly a family affair.

Denver's Mike Shanahan developed current Texans head coach Gary Kubiak as he would his own son. Shanahan taught him the tricks of the coaching trade. He taught him his version of the West Coast offense. He taught Kubiak his creative, successful running game schemes. He took him from quarterback to quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator. When Shanahan thought he was ready, he recommended Kubiak for head coaching jobs.

Though both teams stand on the verge of playoff elimination, this game is compelling because of what's happening along the Texans' sidelines. Kyle Shanahan, Mike's son, is Kubiak's quarterbacks coach. Mike Sherman, the Texans' offensive coordinator, is heading to Texas A&M after the season. Kyle, who many believe is a future head coaching candidate, could end up being Kubiak's offensive coordinator.

It's all in the family.

Kubiak, who left the Broncos after the 2005 season, might have trouble recognizing the offense he used to coach. Only tackle Matt Lepsis is left on the offensive line Kubiak knew. Tom Nalen and Ben Hamilton are on injured reserve. Wide receiver Rod Smith is out for the season. The backfield changes week to week. Jay Cutler is at quarterback.

The Broncos may be family to Kubiak, but he needs an introduction to the Broncos' new offensive family. Overall, the Broncos are in transition. After missing the playoffs last season, Mike Shanahan fired his defensive coordinator, shook up the defensive line, cut the middle linebacker and traded for cornerback Dre' Bly.

But things haven't worked out. Though Shanahan's game plans and Cutler's development at quarterback remain intriguing, the Broncos took major steps backward this season. The offense is averaging 21.6 points per game, but the defense is giving up 25.8 points per game. Those aren't playoff or Super Bowl numbers, and Shanahan thinks only in terms of Super Bowls.

What's interesting about this game is whether the Texans are ready to pass the Broncos in the AFC pecking order. Kubiak seems to have found the right quarterback in Matt Schaub, but the poor offensive line play that doomed David Carr has finally caught up to Schaub. He's been hit and beaten down all season. With Schaub out with a dislocated left shoulder, Sage Rosenfels is trying to get the team to .500 Thursday night.

Both teams enter the game with 6-7 records. Shanahan is hoping to keep Denver's fading playoff hopes alive. Getting to .500 doesn't mean a lot to him if a trip to the playoffs isn't attached. For Kubiak, though, getting to .500 means progress for a former expansion team that is moving in the right direction.

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Shanahan gets screwed by Der Furrer (NFL)

Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan has been fined $25,000 by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for making inappropriate comments about the league's substance abuse program.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed the penalty to ESPN's Chris Mortensen.

Shanahan's comments regarding Henry, who on Tuesday won his appeal of a one-year drug suspension, were determined to be in violation of league policy. In November, Broncos running back Travis Henry agreed to take a lie detector test administered by the team and give hair samples for testing. Henry passed the lie detector and his hair samples came back negative for marijuana. Had Henry failed the lie detector test, Shanahan said he would have considered releasing him, but Henry passed the test and had the full faith of his coach. Goodell's office said Shanahan's comments were made outside the appeals process and that they supported processes -- hair sample testing and the lie detector -- that are not endorsed by the federally certified lab the NFL uses. Henry will be able to finish out the remainder of the season with Denver. "Travis Henry will remain in the substance abuse program, must continue to adhere to all aspects of it, but will not be suspended following his appeal," the NFL announced in a statement Tuesday.

Patriots vs Ravens

Ill tell you right now that there is holding in every play in a football game but it is the referee who will make the Judgement call. Tonight I lost one hundred percent respect for the NFL and those "referees" I mean pit bosses. The Baltimore Ravens clearly beat the Patty's ASS! The Referees ERROR...I mean Vegas Error ... I mean NFL... NEED Brady to win because their heads are so stuck up his ass! There is holding in every play of every game. Tonight the refferees changed the game. I would send every referee in that Patriots vs Ravens back to umping for Little League for the rest of their lives or to prison.

See I am a Bronco fan and love the game.

Cyclones kings of hill

PUEBLO WEST 21, MONARCH 14

By Jon E. Yunt
The Denver Post

Pueblo West's Bo Martinez celebrates his game-winning touchdown catch in the Class 4A title game. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)

In August, Pueblo West football coach Monte Pinkerton took 22 of his players on a journey to the top of Pikes Peak, with the message: "Once you get started, you never stop."

On Saturday, Pueblo West went to the top of the mountain again. The Cyclones, on the strength of an impressive, late fourth-quarter drive, beat Monarch 21-14 in the Class 4A championship game at Invesco Field at Mile High and became the first Pueblo-based team to win a football title since Centennial's Class 5A title in 1992, when there were six 11-man classes.

"We knew we were sort of carrying the torch for people down there, and this means a lot," Pinkerton said. "We wanted to show people up here that we do play football down there, and we play pretty good football."

It was smashmouth football at its finest, with both teams moving the football with relative ease (at least 3 yards at a time) and sustaining time-consuming drives.

Monarch (12-2), on the strength of a fumbled punt by West's Victor Chavez that kept a drive alive, tied the game with 5:16 to play. Sean Fox converted from 5 yards out and an atypical (for run-oriented Monarch) pass on a two-point conversion from Derek DiCarlo to Nicolas Rothschild made it 14-14.

That set the stage for the Cyclones (12-2) to make their run to glory. An 11-play, 61-yard drive featured a mix of Joe Torres, Justin Jackson and Tony Chavarria.

But a pass won it. On a newly inserted contribution to the playbook, quarterback Chaz Vaughan ran a bootleg left and found tight end Bo Martinez open in the back of the end zone for the game-winner.

"It was like the movies. It was moving pretty slow," said Martinez, who had his only two catches of the day on the final drive. "We have to have that extra element, just to keep them on their heels."

Said Monarch coach Phil Bravo of the Cyclones' play call: "We knew they had one shot in, and they just caught us sleeping with the play-action. It was a gutsy call, but they have a seasoned quarterback and if nobody was open, I'm sure he was going to throw it out of the stadium."

Monarch, which churned out 236 yards on the ground led by 127 from senior Cale Soole, had 27 seconds left to tie and was forced to throw. Ryan Stepisnik's option pass was intercepted by Zach Fillmore.

Pueblo West's defensive line and linebackers were terrific all day in shutting down Monarch's running lanes, and every now and again defensive back Andrew Williams would knife in for a big play, including his diving stop of Soole on a crucial fourth down in the second quarter.

Williams earned MVP honors from The Post for his six-tackle effort.

4A MVP

Andrew Williams, Pueblo West, Jr., DB: It's the little things that tend to make a difference in a big game. Williams made more of those noticeable plays than anyone else Saturday. Williams had two tackles for loss and six total, and his fourth-down takedown of Cale Soole in the second quarter ended a 16-play Monarch drive at the 26-yard line.

Monarch 3 3 0 8 — 14

Pueblo West 7 7 0 7 — 21

M — FG Henry 31. PW — Ch. Vaughan 4 run (A. Martinez kick). PW — Torres 1 run (A. Martinez kick). M — FG Henry 38. M — Fox 5 run (Rothschild pass from DiCarlo). PW — B. Martinez 11 pass from Ch. Vaughan (A. Martinez kick).

Monarch PWest

First downs 17 15

Rushes-yds. 58-236 44-156

Passing 1-7-26-1 4-6-37-0

Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1

Punts-avg. 1-31.0 3-37.7

Penalties-yds. 4-20 3-30

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Rushing — Monarch, Soole 34-127, Stepisnik 15-76, Fox 8-32, Rothschild 1-1; Pueblo West, Jackson 12-41, Ch. Vaughan 7-30, Torres 14-27, Co. Vaughan 6-24, Chavarria 4-22, Fillmore 2-12.

Passing — Monarch, DiCarlo 1-6-26-0, Stepisnik 0-1-0-1; Pueblo West, Ch. Vaughan 4-6-37-0.

Receiving — Monarch, Burton 1-26; Pueblo West, Martinez 2-25, Co. Vaughan 1-8, Torres 1-4.