Month: May 2008 (Page 16 of 28)

Senator wants more to be done on SpyGate issue

Despite NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stating Tuesday that no further punishment would be handed out to the Patriots or head coach Bill Belichick in light of Matt Walsh turning over video relating to the SpyGate scandal, the issue apparently is far from over.

Now United States Senator Arlen Specter wants to get in on the act ala Sen. George Mitchell when he probed into baseball’s steroid issue. Specter wants to conduct an independent investigation.

Must be a Jets fan.

Hank Steinbrenner at it again

Yankees’ Senior Vice President Hank Steinbrenner is running his mouth again – this time he’s attacking the entire team.

“The bottom line is that the team is not playing the way it is capable of playing,” Steinbrenner said. “These players are being paid a lot of money and they had better decide for themselves to earn that money.”

“We have good professional hitters and I have a lot of faith in them,” Steinbrenner said from Tampa. As for the team in general, he noted, “I’m not saying they are not giving the effort, but they need to be playing harder.”

Steinbrenner needs to let the players play while he does whatever he does. He’s not someone the players are going to listen to, so attacking the publicly doesn’t make any sense. And despite what many think, salary has nothing to do with performance.

Bonds faces new indictment

Barry Bonds is in more trouble. Well, he’s in the same trouble, just even worse.

Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds, charging the home run king with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.

Bonds originally was charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice last Nov. 15, but U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered prosecutors on Feb. 29 to rework the indictment so that each charge alleged only one lie rather than lumping several alleged falsehoods into single counts.

The new indictment doesn’t add any new alleged falsehoods.

The case against Bonds is still built on whether he lied when he told the grand jury that his personal trainer Greg Anderson never supplied him with steroids and human growth hormone.

Stick a fork in his baseball career – it’s time for this guy to concentrate on something he’s been running away from for almost a decade. As was the case with Michael Vick and his dog fighting indictment, the feds usually don’t prosecute unless they have an airtight case. Bonds is going to need the mother of all Houdini tricks to get out of this one.

Joe Horn and T.O. together? Somebody get the popcorn

Tim MacMahon of the Dallas Morning News is suggesting that since the Falcons’ Joe Horn has asked for a trade, that the Cowboys should make a play for the aging wide receiver and stick him opposite Terrell Owens.

The Cowboys have made no secret of the fact that they’re in the market for a playmaking WR to put opposite T.O. Joe Horn has made no secret of the fact that he wants the heck out of Atlanta.

Do we have a match or what?

If the Cowboys add Horn to the Valley Ranch Circus, they would probably have the most quotable receiver corps in NFL history. Horn could definitely help T.O. come up with a few more creative end zone dances, and he’d be pure gold on Hard Knocks.

Pretty much the only negative I can come up with is the strong possibility that Horn, a former Pro Bowler, is washed up (27 catches, 243 yards, 1 TD last season).

Horn was on his last legs two years ago. The fact that he got over $4 million a year from the Falcons last offseason was a joke. However, he’s always been a warrior and might have a little left in the tank for a competitor like Dallas. The Cowboys could do worse than to have Horn in the slot, but I doubt he’s a better option at this point than Patrick Crayton (seven touchdowns last year).

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