Ever since the Thanksgiving weekend when the secret life of Tiger Woods began to unfold, dozens of questions about the world’s No. 1 golfer began to surface.
If there ever was the perfect storybook finish, it has to involve the New Orleans Saints and their destined trip to pro football’s pinnacle of success—winning the Super Bowl.
It’s not a real big surprise that the Indianapolis Colts will be facing the New Orleans Saints at Miami in Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7. Las Vegas had the Colts an 8-point favorite and they won 30-17 and the Saints were favored by 3 1/2 points and won 31-28 in overtime. This was the first time since 1993 that the top seeds in each conference will face each other in the Super Bowl.
The monkey that has been on the back of the Dallas Cowboys since 1996 has disappeared!!! The 14-year playoff jinx that has demonized the Pokes was exorcised Saturday night when The Boys gave the Philadelphia Eagles their second lesson within a week of Pro Football 101.
It was all set up a couple of weeks ago that when the fire truck on which Santa was riding in the Orange Christmas parade reached a certain location, he was going to give me a copy of his proposed route he plans to take on the night of Dec. 24 and some of the gifts he would be delivering.
The wintry weather that visited Southeast Texas and Southwestern Louisiana last weekend prompted many of us “weather wienies” to throw another log on the fire and sit in our favorite easy chair and take in a flurry of football games that were on the tube Saturday and Sunday.
It had been many, many moons since Orange County had three high schools qualify for the Texas state football playoffs and even a longer time when there were no teams left going into the second round of those playoffs.
Ever since getting off the plane a couple of weeks ago after our quickie trip to South Florida, we continued to have symptoms of coming down with some kind of illness—like post-nasal drip, scratchy throat, a nagging cough.
The huge jet throttled down the wet West Palm Beach runway in the pitch darkness at least an hour before sunrise Monday morning as the driving rain pounded at the rectangular windows of the huge aircraft.
After being evaluated as the team playing the best football in the NFC by the NFL pre-game crew, the Dallas Cowboys laid a gigantic egg Sunday afternoon by reverting back to their old ways of stupid penalties, turnovers and a worn-out defense during playoff time.
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Texas Tech recently fired head coach Mike Leach
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Saturday night’s Alamo Bowl certainly stole the limelight from all of the big-money bowls that have been promoted on television for the past couple of weeks thanks to the fiasco surrounding the firing of Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach earlier in the week.
Believe it or not, our do-nothing Houston Astros’ management actually was one of the most active teams at the winter meetings that concluded recently.
Of course it became a necessity when a large number of last year’s players declined arbitration and decided to hang their hats in another team’s locker room for the 2010 season.
Here we are going into turkey week and there still are half-a-dozen major college football teams who could wear the National Championship logo on their letterman’s jackets.
Things appear much more defined in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision as the 2009 playoff brackets were announced Sunday night and both co-champions of the Southland Conference—Stephen F. Austin and our McNeese State Cowboys—were invited to participate in the 16-team affair that begins Saturday.
Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but for this Korner missing the McNeese State University Cowboys home football games for a season and one-half, we were in for a pleasant surprise when we decided to utilitze our press credentials and go to the McNeese-Sam Houston State game Saturday night at Cowboy Stadium.
