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Sports Columns

COVID-19 strikes closer to home with Green Bay Packers affected

Hurry up and play the game! That must be what you Green Bay Packers fans are thinking today before any other players — or coaches — get knocked out of tonight’s game at Arizona due to a positive coronavirus test. I actually think the Allen Lazard scratch from this game on Tuesday ...

NFL football dreams abound in a land of fantasy

OK, I have this fantasy. It’s not a fantasy because it has unicorns or Skittles-flavored rainbows in it. No, it supposed to be based on reality. Except that it’s impossible for it to happen. I know that sounds strange, but it’s my answer to the ineptness of the Detroit ...

Will these NFL coaches ever learn about not going for 2-point conversions?

Well, Dan Campbell, thank you for giving me an easy topic for this week’s column. Otherwise, I might’ve had to sermonize about John Gruden and all the murky depths that might entail with his offensive email trail. Instead, I get to talk about — for at least the fourth time in this ...

Are injuries in the NFL any worse this season?

Injuries seem to be rearing their ugly head in the NFL now that we’re a month into the season. I kinda think they’re not any worse than usual, but in the heightened sense of well-being in this day and age — the league has come up with a number of rules in the name of safety — I do ...

Memories of the Detroit Lions being victimized by long-range kickers

So there was a weird coincidence in the two record-setting field goals the Detroit Lions have been involved in, the one on Sunday and the other going back to Nov. 8, 1970. Of course, the Lions were victimized in each of those games. But the coincidence is that both final scores were ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

Excuse my use of a quite mild curse in today’s headline, but Mark Twain made that phrase quite popular a century or so past. Yes, of course, statistics can be made to bolster nearly any argument. For instance, just two scores from the start of this season show how the Carolina Panthers ...