Steelers 28, Broncos 10. This was actually a close game most of the way, until the Steelers and Ben Roethlisberger blew it open in the 4th with touchdown passes to Mike Wallace and Hines Ward. Ben rallied from a fumble and interception to finish with 21-29 with 233 yds and 3 TDs. And then he probably played the new Call of Duty game until 4 am.
Warriors 146, Timberwolves 105. Kelenna Azubuike scored 31 points, a personal best for the year. That surely makes up for all of those “random” body searches at the airport. More NBA.
Blackhawks 4, Kings 1. Chicago’s Jonathan Toews scored a power-play goal after sitting out three weeks with a concussion. It was a pretty sweet goal, too. Too bad he doesn’t remember it.
Hockey Hall of Famers. Congrats to Brett Hull, Brian Leetch, Steve Yzerman and those two other guys. Too bad your sport is already dead inside.
Here’s the amazing Brandon Stokley catch from last week in Tecmo Bowl form. I’m blown away that somebody decided to reincarnate the play in this way…and do it well. Hey, that could be the play of the year, and we saw it in the first week of the season. Week Two will have its work cut out for it on Sunday. But with all the games potentially blacked out this weekend, it’s not like we’d ever know. as seen here.
I’m kinda surprised that Jay Cutler making his first trip to Denver as a member of the Chicago Bears is getting the attention it is from the sports blogosphere. For a few reasons:
- Sunday’s tilt was, after all, a preseason game.
- Denver is hardly the cultural apex of anything, so who really cares how they feel about Cutler, or for that matter, how they feel about pleated pants or the fiat standard. Oh, you can ski in Denver? Great. The snow’s better in Utah, anyway. The only downside is that I’m pretty sure Utah is still a slave state.
- It was a preseason game. Wait, I already said that.
- I probably didn’t need bullet points for this. Or blockquote.
Long story short: Cutler played well, Orton got a bloody finger, and one team had more points than the other. I guess that America’s hardon for football is insatiable. And sure, these teams won’t play each other all year. And yes, Broncos coach Josh McDaniels has already decimated that team with nothing to show for it. But are we that worked up over a preseason game? We are? Oh.
The petulance of Broncos wideout Brandon Marshall is reaching a fever pitch. And why not? After watching Jay Cutler whine his way out of Denver, Marshall figures, “Why can’t us?” So he threw a fit in practice on Wednesday, jogging through routes, punting a ball after a drill, and even refusing to catch passes, choosing instead to knock them down. But yesterday, after missing practice, Marshall owned up to his behavior. After blaming the media.
“Some of it is blown out of proportion,” Marshall said in an interview broadcast on ESPN Thursday night. “It was an error in judgement. There was some frustration, but some of it was blown out of proportion.”
“Me punting the ball away was definitely frustration,” he said. “But when I was walking, fixing my pants, that was blown out of proportion.” via.
I personally don’t think that Marshall will play anywhere but Denver in 2009. Those Manny Ramirez-type tactics don’t work in the NFL, where you show up and get pounded on for months on end and like it or else. I’m sure teams can’t wait to get into a bidding war for another crybaby wideout that once lost a fight with a flatscreen television. Leave it to Japanese technology to put a clown like that in his place.
UPDATE: Adam Schefter is reporting that Marshall has now been suspended indefinitely for conduct detrimental blah blah.
It’s one thing to live in the lap of luxury in a massive house that lays (lies?) off the beaten path. It’s another to live in a posh fortress that makes visitors loathe themselves and reflect on how little they’ve accomplished in life. But that’s Mike Shanahan for you, whose former residence, a 20,000-plus-square-foot mansion, is now for sale. One real estate site has the asking price at $17 million.
Denver BizJournals confirms that it is Shanahan’s old place.
Located at 20 Cherry Hills Park Drive, the ranch-style house has 20,199 square feet of space in two stories. Amenities include a Jacuzzi, steam room, sauna, hot tub, swimming pool and several fireplaces, according to property tax records.
The house sits on nearly 2.5 acres of land.
Shanahan, who has business interests in metro Denver, also is building a 35,000-square-foot, ranch-style home in Cherry Hills Village. What will happen to the house, in the wake of the coach’s leaving the Broncos, is unknown.
My entire apartment could fit into the pool of that place. I hate my life.
Insulin just got a whole lot sexier in the Windy City as the Chicago Bears managed to put together the winning bid for Denver’s Jay Cutler.
The Bears acquired:
The Broncos get:
Orton finally seemed to get his act together to some degree last year, so it’s a bit surprising that the Bears would emerge as the team willing to pay the two first-round picks that the Broncos were seeking. That’s what Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher thought, but then all you’d need to surprise that guy is something shiny. Read the rest of this entry »
