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We'll call it the Tara VanDerveer Observation. The Stanford women's basketball coach once said, "All the great ones have a screw loose."
It's open to debate whether Jim Harbaugh has earned the "great" label, but he's on that track. When I asked Vernon Davis about Harbaugh, the 49ers' tight end shouted, "He's a crazy (mother-)!"
Harbaugh is at least very different. When he took over at Stanford, he pledged that his team would play with "an enthusiasm unknown to mankind." At Stanford and with the 49ers, he has coached with an enthusiasm unknown to coachkind.
While meeting with the media Thursday, new Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano naturally was asked about his new quarterback, Tim Tebow. Quite naturally, the idea coach Rex Ryan presented in March that Tebow could get into a... more »
The mystery surrounding the death of Junior Seau, the man, may never be solved. The mystery that was Junior Seau, the football player, wasn’t solved, either. Junior couldn’t be figured out on the field. His game was an... more »
Some have attached a high degree of significance to the possibility that Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs suffered a torn (full or partial) Achilles tendon while playing basketball. Technically, it doesn’t matter. If a... more »
So again the sporting world is confronted by tragedy, and we are left to debate and contemplate. A gunshot. Disbelief. A haunting refrain, the Beatles singing, "I read the news today, oh, boy, about a lucky man who made the... more »
Football players are killing each other. The death sentence isn't immediate, but it's there -- and we all know it. Whether they die from dementia or Alzheimer's or their own hand, NFL players are dying too ... more »
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