NFL round-up, Week 17

Packers 31, Lions 21: On the one hand, Green Bay outscored opponents by 39 points despite finishing 6-10.  On the other, one-third of Green Bay’s victories came against the Lions, who are the first team to go winless since the regular season expanded to 16 games in 1978.
Chargers 52, Broncos 21: Oh snap! Norv Turner might make me eat [...]

Brooklyn, Kings County, restaurant

While it lasts, check out Dajeh, on Fulton Street in Clinton Hill.  The spouse-to-be and I checked it out for brunch.  Decor and ambiance are excellent, menu concise and varied, service pro-active yet laid back, dishes fantastic and the prices incredible.  
We had a seafood frittata, plaintains, sausage, eggs over easy with toast, mango and papaya juice and some outrageous [...]

NFL round-up, Week 16

Saints 42, Lions 7:  You know Detroit is having a bad year when the Lions might not be the city’s most embarrassing (Kwame Kilpatrick) or saddest (plight of the Big Three automakers) story.  Sunday in Green Bay the Lions will likely end up 0-16.
Giants 34, Panthers 28:  Good game.  I doubt that the Giants will again [...]

NFL round-up, Week 15

 
Steelers 13, Ravens 9:  Give it up for Ben Roethlisberger.  He’s clutch.  This game was exactly what it promised — tough, dominated by the top two defenses in the league. 
Cowboys 20, Giants 8:  To me the G-Men’s identity of offense this year has been Brandon Jacobs (Earth), notwithstanding his bandmates Derrick Ward (Wind) and Ahmad [...]

Ouch

 
Via Drums, the message that the voices — and ears — of Farai Chideya and Tony Cox might have to find a new home for reporting, interviewing and moderating.  “News & Notes” has been excellent since Chideya took over for Ed Gordon a few years back.  Unlike Gordon, both Chideya and Cox listen closer to their interview subjects [...]

Was Blagojevich talking about the Scranton job?

“It’s a f___ing valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing.  Unless I get something real good, I’m going to keep this option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain.  You hear what I’m saying.  And if I don’t get what I want and I’m not satisfied with it, then [...]

Candidate 5 — I don’t have a good feeling about this

 
First of all, let’s establish that the charged party so far is only one Rod Blagojevich.   The Illinois governor is accused of effectively selling Barack Obama’s vacant seat in the United States Senate. 
Now it’s clear that Jackson is the candidate who, according to the governor’s conversations, might have promised through an [...]

‘Bama of the week

It’s John Thain, for saying he deserves a $10 million bonus “because he helped avert what could have been a much larger crisis” at Merrill Lynch, whose sale to Bank of America has just been approved. 
I should acknowledge that this kind of story isn’t new, and to me the fact that these are rough economic times [...]

How about that apple?

Whoa.  Derrick Rose is stretching credulity.  I hope he recovers and is never injured again.

NFL round-up, Week 14

Steelers 20, Cowboys 13:  Who knows what routes Jason Witten was running in the last two minutes?  Tony Romo didn’t.  Pittsburgh was lucky to win this game, but the Steelers look like they love to play.  They reflect the matching personalities of their coach and quarterback, Mike Tomlin and Ben Roethlisberger.
Colts 35, Bengals 3:  Indy finally gets an [...]