Good-bye Tedy Bruschi

After 13 seasons in the NFL, Tedy Bruschi has retired. Thirteen years, five Super Bowls, and one stroke. Thirteen years gets you about 13 years off your life. It took five Super Bowls to win three of them. And one stroke just meant a return to the pinnacle of your sport for the ages. Add it all up and it makes Tedy [read more...]

SOMM on the Political Tip: Steelers Harrison to Skip White House Visit; The Well-Connected Hill Family

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison says he’ll skip his team’s Thursday visit to the White House. Harrison also skipped the Steelers 2006 post-Super Bowl XLIII win White House visit. Is it politics that keeps Harrison from the traditional visit? Could it be possible that Harrison is so enlightened that he sees Republicans and Democrats as one in the same? Ummmmm, no: “This is [read more...]

NBA Playoff, NFL Draft Thoughts

How do you not foul John Salmons and allow him to pass to “The Commissioner”?…. “We wanted it more. Before the second overtime I said, ‘let’s stop playin’ and win this thing,’” Gordon said after the game. Gordon’s hyperbolic statement aside, how could you not foul Salmons at the end of the first overtime? And then, how you could you not be [read more...]

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