A super bowl of notes …
How can he be so good so soon? Ben Roethlisberger, that is. Dude is 26-4 in his first 30 starts. As a matter of comparison, John Elway was 19-11. …
Brett Favre, pondering his future in Green Bay, 29 interceptions in 16 games. The starting quarterbacks for Super Bowl XL? They have 19 in 33 games. …
Archie Manning, when asked how many more years his son Peyton had in his attempt to win a Super Bowl: “You don’t know what’s going to happen. You can be good every year and still not win the Super Bowl. But I know nobody is going to outwork him. We’ve got a saying in our family: ‘Just keep sawing wood.”‘ …
Happens every time at the Super Bowl. One of the players goes out on the town and gets in trouble. If it happens again this year, Windsor, Ontario, figures to be the dateline. Windsor is famous for, among other things, its casino and its ballet. That’s ballet, as in the Team of Destiny vs. the Team of Cinnamon. …
How down is the Kentucky hoops program? The leading rebounder on the team is none other than 6-foot-1 sophomore guard Rajon Rondo. And frankly, there’s not a close second. …
Memo to middle-aged men of America: Your daughter is going to be bringing home one of those guys before you know it, so you might as well embrace the Winter X Games. …
Remember those before-and-after Mark Schlereth pictures we ran last week to mark his 40th birthday? Turns out we need yet another after shot. He was pushing three bills in the before picture, but weighed 245 for the after shot. He tells me he’s 212 these days, 3 pounds lighter than Broncos punter Todd Sauerbrun. …
Why did it take the Broncos so long to announce their new assistant head coach? When his name is Heimerdinger, it takes a while to type up the press release. …
Phil Mickelson loves to gamble, battles weight issues and makes our jaws drop when he hits a golf ball. So why is he No. 8 on GQ’s list of most hated athletes, and John Daly is the most popular player on the tour without a Swedish bikini model waiting for him at his $38 million estate? …
About that $38 million estate … I don’t want to say it’s a little more than Tiger Woods and his bride needed, but he used a 6-iron the other day to get from the front door to the end of the driveway. …
OK, so he’s more like an old Mike Piazza than the Mike Piazza of old, but he figures to help the Padres. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego cleanup hitters accounted for 19 home runs last season in 162 games. Piazza had that many in 113. …
Sure, it’s possible that Gary Kubiak will keep the first pick in the draft. Then again, don’t be surprised if he trades down and takes the best D’Brickashaw available. …
That would be Virginia offensive tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson, who didn’t take a single prisoner during the Senior Bowl practice week. …
Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News, on Motown’s adopted team in the Super Bowl: “98.99 percent of Detroit is rooting for the Steelers. The other 1.01 percent drink $6 cups of coffee.” …
It isn’t possible, of course, but LeBron James is even better than advertised. To wit: He completed his 200th NBA game the other day with a 25.5-point career scoring average. Kevin Garnett was at 14.5 through 200, Kobe Bryant 13.8 and Tracy McGrady 11.5. …
Oh, to be a ballplayer born on Jan. 31. The roster of today’s birthdays includes, among others, Nolan Ryan (59), Ernie Banks (75) and Jackie Robinson, who would have been 87. …
Seven first-time NFL head coaches just hired and not a single minority in the bunch. You don’t imagine Robinson is anguishing in his grave, do you? Nah, didn’t think so.
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