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TOP STORIES - JANUARY 1, 2007 Get your NFL football tickets now at TickCo. They have all team Cardinals tickets, Cowboys tickets, Packers tickets, Colts tickets, Patriots tickets, Titans tickets and more. Get your Super Bowl tickets here!  DECISION TIME!!! Dozens of star underclassmen gridiron stars face a critical decision: Be the Big Man On Campus in 2007 and risk injury or sub-par season - or to jump at the potential chance of NFL millions now. Get the status of nearly 100 underclassman now on KACSPORTS Exclusive 2007 NFL Draft page.ONE FINAL WEEK!!! Week 17 fantasy rankings are here. ON FIRE!!! Stone Cold Locks 9-1 the last two weeks, 24-10-1 the last two months, a DOCUMENTED 70 PERCENT!!! Let me be your A-T-M, get my Week 17 picks now in DEGENERATE CENTRAL.  BOWL PICKS RED-HOT!!!If you thought my regular season college picks were good, over even my pro picks the last few weeks, then check out my 9-1 record in the 10 most recent bowl games played. I have my biggest lock of the bowl season on tap for New Year's Eve, not to mention New Year's Day and all the BCS plays. Get the rest of my picks for the bowl season here. NFL ROCKED BY BRONCOS PLAYERS DEATH: For the last couple of weeks you may have noticed the scroll above noting passings from the world of sports in 2006. Unfortunately the list for 2007 has already begun, as for the second time in 16 months a game between the 49ers and Broncos at Invesco Field has ended with one of it's participants dead shortly afterwards in an incident more surreal than a Playmakers season-finale, Denver cornerback Darrent Williams, 24, was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting about two hours into the new year, his limousine sprayed with bullets in downtown Denver. According to reports, a white Hummer limousine was fired on by a vehicle that pulled up alongside. It's said that as many as a dozen bullet holes were visible on the driver's side of the vehicle. One window was blown out and four others had bullet holes. It's said there was a disagreement between two groups of people at a bar in the area that possibly led to the shooting, but police are also investigating other possible motives. Darrent's death occurred just hours after the Broncos were eliminated from the playoffs in stunning fashion in overtime, but not nearly as stunning or tragic as what occurred afterwards. Great Blue North Draft's Colin Lindsay reports that he met up with Darrent at the 2005 Senior Bowl, and found him to be a 'thoughtful young man with a bright future'. Commissioner Goodall is going to have a real issue on his hand this off-season as incidents involving players after hours, especially after games continues to get even more alarming and out of control.85!!! Rutgers wins first-ever bowl game, becomes the 85th Division 1-A program to score a bowl win since Notre Dame was last victorious in the bowl season. AND 86... Kentucky wins in a rare bowl appearance over Clemson.NFL WILD CARD WEEKEND: 4:30 PM ET 1/6: Kansas City at Indianapolis (NBC) 8 PM 1/6: Dallas at Seattle (NBC) 1 PM 1/7: NY Jets at New England (CBS) 4:30 PM 1/7: NY Giants at Philadelphia (FOX) NBC'S SECOND ANNOUNCE TEAM: I was half-right, Cris Collinsworth is indeed the color man, Tom Hammond does play-by-play. BEST AL MICHAELS LINE YET!!! Fresh off his criticism of the Cowboys alternate uniforms (and they didn't look too much better in their traditional whites today), Michaels opens the Sunday Night telecast with the following: 'I DON'T KNOW IF GLOBAL WARMING IS FACT OF MYTH, BUT IT'S 50 DEGREES IN CHICAGO!!!' Could Al possibly be a George Noory fan???GIANTS CLINCH #6 NFC SEED: Tiki Barber drops 234 rushing yards and three TD's in 34-28 win in Washington. Again I say the Giants clinch - don't believe me??? Here is all the Packers will need to win the 'strength of victory' tie-breaker. Detroit has to win in Dallas and Minnesota over St. Louis - just getting through that in itself is a longshot. But there is more - five of the following six results must happen, San Francisco in Denver, Arizona at San Diego, Miami somehow in Indianapolis, Cleveland (yet another heavy underdog) in Houston, New Orleans over Carolina, and Seattle over Tampa Bay. Finally, the Packers must then take care of business and defeat Chicago. You might have better odds with a couple of Powerball tickets, Saddam had a better shot making it out of this weekend alive. But then again, beat the Rams back in October and you're not resorting to praying that Antwaan Randle El doesn't drop a 4th and 10 pass... TYSON BUSTED ON DRUG, DUI CHARGES: Controversial as ever, Mike Tyson was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of cocaine after police stopped him leaving a Phoenix-area nightclub early Friday. The heavyweight was stopped after his car almost struck a sheriff's vehicle while leaving the club at about 1:45 a.m (what else time could this happen???). This could hurt Tyson's chances of scoring a multi-million dollar payday by fighting Rocky Balboa in Rocky 7 in 2010...  EMOTIONAL WEEKEND ON TAP FOR NINERS: Team returns to Denver for first time since the passing of Thomas Herrion, who collapsed in the locker room moments after a 2005 pre-season game. The team plans on paying it's respects in the Invesco Field visitors locker room on Saturday, where medics frantically tried to revive the fallen lineman 16 months ago. Since Herrion's death, management, coaches and players, along with the NFL and the players union, helped build a home in Texas for Herrion's mother. At the 49ers practice facility, Herrion's locker remains untouched, just as he left it before that fateful trip to Denver. SCARE IN BRONCOS LOCKER ROOM: There was another surreal scene at Invesco Field last Sunday, this time in the home locker room. Cornerback Dominique Foxworth hyperventilated and passed out after a game in which he was in on 14 tackles along with a forced fumble. Foxworth was allowed by team doctors to go home afterwards and has been cleared to play against the 49ers this Sunday.NEW BARRY IN TOWN: And he comes even more expensive than that other Barry. 7 year/$126 million contract brings Barry Zito over from accross the bay. Perhaps we should just call him B$rry.  BLUETOOTH COSTS CHESS PLAYER 10-YEAR BAN: I knew those things were already causing problems, Sammy Sosa even thinks this was over the top - Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was racking up rating points at a rapid pace over last 18 months and also qualified for the national championship, arousing the suspicion of officials and bemusing rivals. Sure enough, Sharma was finally caught at a tournament when officials discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which he always pulled over his ears. Sharma used the device to communicate to his accomplices, who then used a computer to relay moves to him. Unfortunately, international chess officials aren't nearly as Bud Selig, Sharma has been banned for ten years. What part of performance enhancing phone device don't you understand???'HE SAID EVERYTHING BUT CROSS THE T'S AND DOT THE I'S... Another day in paradise for the media interviewing ME-O... TOP 'FOOTBALL STATES' RANKED: Texas, California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, Louisiana, New Jersey and Wisconsin comprise the top-ten. As you might expect, Alaska is ranked last at 51, but let's not kid ourselves - FOOTBALL IS BIG EVERYWHERE!!!  NFL TELEVISION FIRST, 'DOUBLE-DOUBLEHEADER' THIS SUNDAY: Traditionally, CBS and FOX alternates televising two games each Sunday while the other network is allowed to broadcast one game into each market. That changes for this weekend, as for the first time, the NFL is allowing both networks to televise games at 1 and 4:15 PM ET, meaning four games will be available to many viewers. That's four games even if you don't have Sunday Ticket. Of course if you have the misfortune of having your local team playing at home, it will be the usual one game only on each channel. Says the league's senior VP of broadcasting 'With tight playoff races and so much interest in so many games, a Week 17 double doubleheader offers fans more football as they look ahead to the playoffs.' BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN BASEBALL STEROID CASE: Look for baseball's steroid scandal to break wide open in 2007. With Barry Bonds still in their sights, federal investigators can now use the names and urine samples of about 100 Major League Baseball players in their steroids probe, following a ruling from a federal appeals court. The 2-1 ruling overturns three lower court decisions and could help authorities pinpoint the source of steroids in baseball. It could also bolster the perjury case against Barry Bonds, who is under investigation for telling a grand jury he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Investigators seized computer files containing the test results in 2004 during raids of labs involved in MLB's testing program. The samples were collected at baseball's direction the previous year as part of a survey to gauge the prevalence of steroid use, and were supposed to be confidential. Quest Laboratories analyzed more than 1,400 urine samples from players that season while a California company coordinated the collection of specimens and compiled the data.WISCONSIN-BORN CLIMBER AMONG TWO FEARED DEAD IN CHINA: The body of one missing climber has been found at 17,000 feet on a remote mountain in southwestern China and a rescue coordinator said a second missing climber is also presumed dead. Christine Boskoff, who owns an adventure travel company in Seattle, and Charlie Fowler have been missing more than a month - both live in the Telluride, CO area. Rescuers says it's too early to say what happened to the two -- if they were hit by an avalanche, slipped or encountered some other problem. Boskoff, 39, took over the Mountain Madness travel company in 1996 after a friend who started the business, was killed in a widely publicized disaster on Mt. Everest. Boskoff left behind a career as an electrical engineer with Lockheed Aeronautical to take over the business. 2002 ARTICLE: At the time of this writing, Boskoff was the only living woman to have climbed six of the world's fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, including Mt. Everest. In the piece, Boskoff talks about just how a girl from Wisconsin got into scaling mountains and why she climbs in the first place. Christine also talks about her closest call at the time, when 100 MPH winds threatened to blow her tent apart. FRED SMOOT'S JAW BUSTED IN APPARENT CAR CRASH: His interception return last week did not put a dagger in the Packers playoff hopes but this might - Fred Smoot will miss the Vikings game this Sunday after it's said his jaw was broken in five places in a car accident over the weekend. Details are said to be sketchy. Also, rookie Cedric Griffin, who replace the underperforming Smoot earlier in the year, is also out, leaving the Vikings very thin in the secondary for this weekends game v. St. Louis.ANOTHER '80'S ERA SF GIANT DIES: Chris Brown, a third baseman who played six seasons in the major leagues, dies nearly a month after he was burned in a fire at his home under weird circumstances at age 45. Authorities say they are continuing to investigate the fire and how Brown was burned. A spokesman says arson is suspected. The night of the fire, the house was found 'fully engulfed' in flames. Firefighters found no people or furniture inside, and neighbors told authorities no one had lived there for some time. It's also said that Brown managed to drive himself from the scene to the hospital nine miles away. Brown made the All-Rookie team in 1985 and the All-Star team in '86 after hitting .317, but his career plummeted soon after being traded in a blockbuster trade to the San Diego Padres midway through the 1987 season. Brown was often chastised by the fans and media for his attitude and not playing through injuries. You may recall that earlier this month former Giant shortstop Jose Uribe was lost after a car crash in the Dominican Republic.  DAUNTE MAKES UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO ESPN BOOTH: Daunte Culpepper was in a stadium suite watching Monday night's game when he overheard Steve Young's comments that Daunte needs to show a better work ethic and quit missing team meetings. Daunte then makes a bee-line to the press box, and he, Joe Thees-man, and Young end up holding a discussion outside the broadcast booth. Thees-man told Culpepper he'd patch things up and set the record straight, and went on to mention in the second half that Daunte had in fact only missed one meeting so he could go to a doctor's appointment. Meanwhile Young owned up to the fact that perhaps he should had down a little more homework and asked Culpepper himself what was up. SHULA LAYS INTO TIDE: In another great moment from Monday night's telecast, the legendary coach laments on Alabama's efforts to lure coach Nick Saban. Yeah, first they fire his kid then they go after their coach - you might imagine Don was not too happy, and he made it clear he's not. Shula commented 'The people making the decisions, I hope they evaluate the evaluators. Things have not gone well for that program. Someone has to be responsible beyond Mike.' Shula added that it seems funny that Mike Shula would be kicked to the curb just one year after the team challenged for a BCS berth by winning it's first ten games. Tafoya then thanks him for sitting through the rain to do the interview. Heck, Shula would sit through a Cat 5 to say what he really feels about the Crimson Tide program. GERALD R. FORD 1913-2006: His alleged clumsiness was parodied many times in Chevy Chase's Saturday night live skits, but at least he was impressing the women, in this case Olympic skier Susie Patterson in this 1975 photo. Truth be told however, Ford made his mark in athletics perhaps as much as anyone who ever held the Oval Office. Ford was captain and starting center on Michigan's 1932 and 1933 National Championship teams and his #48 jersey is one one of five numbers retired by the football program. Ford tackled the University of Chicago's Jay Berwanger, it's believed to be the only time a future president tackled a future Heisman Trophy winner. After participating in the East-West Shrine Game, Ford was offered a $200 per game contract by Green Bay Packers coach Curly Lambeau and had another offer from the Detroit Lions. Ford would opt not to pursue a career in pro ball however and accepted a coaching position at Yale University while trying to get into law school, eventually paving the way to his military and political career. While serving as president, Ford was known for his frequent excursions to Vail, CO for skiing and golf. Ford participated in many celebrity golf events after leaving office, in fact participating in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am right after being relieved by Jimmy Carter in 1977 - I believe he holed out from the rough if I remember correctly. But Ford was also remembered for some errant golf shots, famously beaning a man in a Milwaukee event in '77. As recently as 1995, Ford participated in a three-some with Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. in a Pro-Am event. CHARLIE WEIS COACHING RUMOR: Charlie can look forward to denying being any part of this report out of New York in the coming days. Should the Giants cut Tom Coughlin loose, the organization may take a cue from the New York Jets success in hiring New England Patriots personnel, and hire personnel man Scott Pioli. If successful there, Pioli's first order of business could be to lure Weis out of South Bend where he would then become a Bill Parcells-like Skull and Bones coach in the NFL East. Lots of luck trying to score that one. MORA DEFENDS RECORD: But owner Arthur Blank reiterates his statement that a second consecutive 8-8 finish will simply not cut it, not to mention 7-9. The A-T-L will have to somehow win in Philly on Sunday and somehow get a ton of help just to make the playoffs. COWHER TO ANNOUNCE DECISION NEXT WEEK: The fact that Cowher is expected to make an announcement so soon could be a sign that the Steelers may soon be looking for a head coach for only the second time in 36 years.WAL-MART AMONG POSSIBLE TITLE SPONSORS??? The Wal-Mart Grand National Series just does not sound right. Samsung and Subway have also been mentioned as possible successors to Anheiser-Busch in sponsoring NASCAR's #2 series. Subway would by far make the most sense out of those three. |
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