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      Ryan Leaf…the movie?

      December 3, 2008 /

      Some dude actually a made a film about Ryan Leaf…and is showing it for free in San Diego.

      We all have times in our lives we’d like to forget. But for San Diego Chargers fans who show up at the San Diego Library on Wednesday night, the Ryan Leaf era can be relived on the big screen — for free.

      “Leaf,” an 82-minute film about the former Chargers quarterback — a “can’t-miss” prospect whose short NFL career turned into a disaster — will be shown at a free screening on Wednesday night at the San Diego Library.

      “I insisted it be free for all the Chargers fans because it’s their story,” writer and director Tim Carr said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “I was like, ‘Chargers fans have been through enough — let them have this.'”

      Carr, who plays Leaf in the film, appeared in “Rocky Balboa” and has written and directed two other films. He said he was interested in making a sports movie in the style of Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives” — a documentary within a movie — but “didn’t want to do a ‘Rudy’-type movie,” according to the report.

      Leaf does not appear in the film. Carr said he had a couple of phone conversations with Leaf about the movie and was hoping he would agree to a cameo appearance, but explained that their talks “got progressively less cordial,” according to the report.

      Their talks got “progressively less cordial”? Well now, doesn’t that sound like the Ryan Leaf we’ve all come to know and love.

      NFL

      Scott Hartnell with a different kind of glove save

      December 3, 2008 /

      Scott Hartnell of the Philadelphia Flyers got a little creative during a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning:

      I’d love to hear what Martin Biron (the Flyers’ goalie) said to Hartnell in the locker room after the game:

      “Hey dude, I have enough trouble trying to stop a little black, rubber object flying at me at 100 miles per hour. Could you not throw your f&^king glove at me, too?”

      NHL, Video

      Déjà vu: Jim Mora to leave Seahawks for University of Washington?

      December 3, 2008 /

      Remember when the Atlanta Falcons fired Jim Mora two seasons ago for openly saying on a Seattle-based radio show that his dream job would be to coach at the University of Washington? Well his dream might become a reality because the position is open and rumor has it that he’s considering bolting the Seahawks for it.

      Two years ago, then-Atlanta Falcons coach Jim Mora sealed his fate in Atlanta by saying in a radio interview that he’d bolt the Falcons (as Bobby Petrino would do a year later) if Mora had the opportunity to become the head coach at the University of Washington, his alma mater.
      Mora was later fired by the Falcons, apparently due in part to his surprisingly candid display of disloyalty to his employer.

      And so he landed as an assistant coach with the Seahawks. With head coach Mike Holmgren deciding to make 2008 his final year with the team, the Seahawks entered into an agreement earlier this year that will make Mora the head coach after Holmgren goes. (An exception to the Rooney Rule permits such arrangements, even though we think that such arrangements circumvent the spirit of the rule.)

      But now the Washington job is open, and rumors are flying that Mora is getting the job, according to Profootballtalk.com.

      Granted, these rumors are coming from the ultra-hit and miss Profootballtalk.com, but considering this shady S.O.B. played at Washington and showed interest in the job before, I wouldn’t doubt the rumors are true.

      At least this time Mora is on a team that has no shot for the playoffs. When he talked about the Washington job while still coaching in Atlanta, the Falcons were still in the postseason hunt, only to crash and burn because of the distraction he created.

      College Football

      Should Missouri step aside and allow Texas to play in the Big 12 Championship?

      December 3, 2008 /

      Kevin Blackistone of AOL Sports writes that the Missouri Tigers should cancel their plane tickets and hotel accommodations for the Big 12 Championship Game this Saturday and allow one-loss Texas to do battle with Oklahoma instead.

      Missouri TigersSo I phoned the Big 12 office on Monday to see if it could get the Tigers to cancel their bus or plane reservations — however they figured this week to make the two-hour drive from Columbia, Mo., to Kansas City — for the conference championship. After all, the Tigers, with three losses and hanging on to the Top 20 by their claws, could win the Big 12 game by 100 points and still not get a certificate of appreciation from the organizers of the national championship game, let alone an invitation to participate. The only people who would benefit would be those who bleed Burnt Orange.

      But the Big 12 office informed me there was nothing it could do. NCAA rules bound the conference’s championship procedures.

      So it is up to the Tigers to voluntarily step aside and let Texas and Oklahoma settle the Big 12 crown. And everybody would win. I bet Texas and Oklahoma would even agree to give Missouri a little more of their title game loot.

      Above all, the Tigers moving aside would further demonstrate the ridiculousness of how the highest level of college football decides who plays for its championship — with voters, computers and hocus pocus. Every college sport decides its champion with a postseason tournament except for D-I (that’s right, I said it again, so sue me) football. Every college team that goes undefeated in its sport can play for that sport’s championship except D-I football, where this season three undefeated teams — Utah, Boise State and Ball State — are locked out.

      I know Blackistone is being facetious with most of this, but it’s not MIZZOU’s fault (or concern) that Oklahoma and Texas play in the same division. They won the North and therefore deserve to play in the Big 12 title game. That’s the bottom line.

      But it is a novel idea. Outside of MIZZOU fans, most of the college football world would love to see Texas and Oklahoma settle this debate on the field once and for all. (Settle the debate on the field again, that is.)

      College Football

      NFL suspends six, including Deuce McAllister, Pat Williams and Kevin Williams

      December 3, 2008 /

      The NFL suspended six players for the final four games of the regular season for violating the league’s steroid and related substances policy.

      Pat Williams & Kevin WilliamsThe suspended players were running back Deuce McAllister and defensive linemen Charles Grant and Will Smith of New Orleans; defensive linemen Kevin and Pat Williams of Minnesota; and long snapper Bryan Pittman of Houston.

      The punishment means all six will miss the end of the regular season, an especially harsh blow to Minnesota, which relies heavily on the Williamses in its run defense, which ranks second in the league.
      If a player’s team makes the playoffs, the player will be eligible to return to the active roster on Dec. 29.

      The suspension of Pat and Kevin Williams, who are not related, may prove to be the most critical.
      “In response to this afternoon’s ruling, the Minnesota Vikings are very disappointed in the National Football League’s suspension of Kevin and Pat Williams,” the team said in a statement. “At the appropriate time, we will have further comment.”

      First things first – don’t confuse what these players took as being steroids. The league likes to group all banned substances under one umbrella, but a diuretic isn’t the same thing as full-blown steroids. Granted, a diuretic can be used to mask the use of steroids, but in the cases of these six players it looks like the pills were used to cut weight.

      This is a massive blow to the Vikings, who just claimed a one game lead in the NFC North. It’s no secret their defense relies on stopping the run and now their two main pieces will miss the final four games. This is huge for the Bears and Packers, although both of those teams have their own issues to sort out.

      Fantasy Football, NFL

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