The Sunday notes. Brewed and bottled in the USA.
Other than adding a backup guard and subtracting a few pounds around Carmelo Anthony’s midsection, the Nuggets are the same team as last season.
Standing pat? In the NBA? Or any other league, for that matter? Doesn’t happen anymore. Not in today’s big-money, free-agent world.
But make no doubt, Kiki Vandeweghe and George Karl – or is it George Karl and Kiki Vandeweghe? – won’t hesitate to make a major move if the 2005-06 version of the Nuggets doesn’t live up to the one that went 32-8 down the stretch last season.
“Let’s see how the league goes,” Karl said. “It’s not about November, it’s about April. There’s still maneuvering. Is there a Rasheed Wallace out there? We’ve got a veteran enough team that, if we made a trade in the middle of the season, it could be workable.” …
Decided on your Halloween costume yet?
I’ll be walking through my neighborhood disguised as someone who has a clue about the BCS. …
OK, so my trusty crystal ball has been known to be wrong. But I’ve got UCLA losing to USC, whereupon the Bruins play in the Holiday Bowl against CU, which runs the table before – shocker of shockers – losing to Texas in the Big 12 championship game. …
Question is, where will Texas land? It sure looks like the Longhorns, not Southern Cal, could be left on the outside looking in as USC and Virginia Tech play for the national championship. …
Here’s the deal: If Tech runs the table with Miami and Florida State on its late-season schedule, it will all be up to the BCS computers. Not that Texas fans should be sweating bullets, but one of those know-it-all computers has USC ranked fifth, three notches up from Wisconsin. What the …? …
You could look it up. The Raiders’ team co-leader in interceptions is none other than Warren Sapp, with one. …
He isn’t alone, either. The Patriots have intercepted one pass and rank 28th in the league in scoring D at 27-plus points a game. And to think, they ought to win the AFC East with ease. …
Not that there are some, you know, shaky franchises in the Not For Long, but the winless Texans and the Raiders, 2-16 in their past 18 road games, are favored today. …
A 10-year contract extension for Charlie Weis? Ten years? What, is a retirement condo in heaven part of the deal, too? …
By the way, Notre Dame plays at Air Force next year. You might want to get tickets, because, with Weis intent on tweaking the Irish’s schedule, we may never see Notre Dame again in Our State. …
Memo to NBA players near and far: Still ticked off at David Stern’s dress code? Eat your hearts out. I’m writing this in sweat pants and my lucky bowling shirt. …
They call the Florida-Georgia game the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Well, except in Wisconsin, where they call it amateur night. …
David Ortiz didn’t make it back to the World Series and isn’t about to win the American League MVP award. Now for the bad news: He’s a Packers fan who lives in Green Bay in the offseason. …
The White Sox, according to ESPN’s Jayson Stark, became the third team to sweep a Series after being in first place every day of the season. The others? The 1990 Reds and 1927 Yankees. Responded A.J. Pierzynski, “The ’27 Yankees? I don’t think we’re exactly the ’27 Yankees. We’ve got no Babe Ruth. We don’t even have a Roger Maris. We do have the Three Stooges, though – me, (Joe) Crede and (Aaron) Rowand: Ro, Mo and Yo.” …
They had a rally for the National League champions in Houston the other day. If you’ve lost your scorecard, that makes one rally for the Astros since the start of the World Series.
Catch Jim Armstrong from 6-9 a.m. during “The Press Box” on ESPN 560 AM. He can be reached at 303-820-5452 or jmarmstrong@denverpost.com.
