 Thoughts on Favre's return
Yesterday, as word of Brett Favre's flight to Minnesota spread around the country, the story of how it all went down began to grow. Apparently defensive end Jared Allen, guard Steve Hutchinson, and kicker Ryan Longwell took off to Mississippi on Monday to retrieve their quarterback and, in fact, succeeded.
Now I won't lie, I absolutely love the fact that those three t...
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 Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
August 17, 2010
Football is a game of skill, talent, organization, luck and pure chance. That is why despite the odds a team can rise from the bottom of the standings to hold the Lombardi Trophy at the end of a brutal season. Stars will be made and some stars will fade. Teams that start off the year as unquestioned favorites to win it all will be hosting supe...
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 Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
August 9, 2010
Washington Redskins Hall of Fame Running Back John Rigginsis known for marching to the beat of his own drum. Unfortunately neither Johnnor his drum bothered to show up to honor one of the guys that helped Riggins win an NFLChampionship and get into the Hall of Fame. When last we checked Riggins was stillfeuding with Redskins Owner, Daniel Snyder and n...
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Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
August 4, 2010
The whispers coming out of Redskin Park are more about the lack of wide receivers than the patchwork and very thin offensive line these days. Devin Thomas appears to be coming on but Malcolm Kelly can’t get healthy enough to get on the field and provide Coach Shanahan a reason to keep him. These used to be whispers but now it has turned to ma...
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 Here we go again.
According to several published reports, future Hall of Famer Brett Favre has notified the Minnesota Vikings that he is hanging up his cleats...again.
Of course, the one person with the Vikings that you'd expect to be the first to hear from Favre, head coach Brad Childress, says he hasn't heard a peep.
So is it all true?
Is the all-time NFL leader in pass attempts, ...
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 [This article was written by Double G Sports contributing writer, Stephen Barron Jr.]
Giants camp opened this weekend and will continue through the month. The big news is that every member of the roster has signed. There are no holdouts and team unity seems high. The photo released of the training camp shirt (pictured in this post) shows the team state of mind and attitude. After the second h...
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Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
July 29, 2010
Expect Competition– Mike Shanahanis a pure competitor and a riverboat gambler so you can expect training camp to be all about gettingback to extremely physical, no-nonsense Redskin football. One of the first things Mike Shanahan will doaway with is this front runner mentality that has permeated this football team.He will make it know...
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 As we are nearing the start of training camp and the NFLseason, fans can’t help but have a small amount of worry in the back of theirminds. Because we all know that there is a labor issue at hand. Sure, theactual labor issue is not going to affect the next two seasons, but as a fan ofthe NFL you have to think about it. Everybody realizes that next season isgoing to be an un-capped season and contr...
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Thought #1
You know how bad what you did in, usually dictates how nice the apology gift needs to be. You pull a Kobe Bryant and you've gotta break the band on a diamond. Do something a little bit less, maybe embarrass your wife at a cookout, and you migh...
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 Jim Turner
Turnersportsdesk.com
July 7, 2010
World News:
World Cup run ends for USA– The United States playedtheir guts out even with some bad calls but in the end Ghana proved too much. My personalobservation was that Ghanahad their best athletes who grew up playing/loving soccer and it showed. Ibelieve the US will farebetter in the World Cup when the US cares enough abou...
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