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      Giants’ rookie Chad Jones suffers career-threatening injuries in car wreck

      June 25, 2010 /

      In what can only be described as a horrific car wreck, New York Giants’ rookie Chad Jones suffered career-threatening injuries when he slammed his SUV into a streetcar pole in New Orleans early Friday morning.

      WDSU 6 in New Orleans has the details:

      The crash happened around 5 a.m. on Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans, in front of the Home Depot.

      WDSU has learned that Jones’ most serious injuries are to his left ankle and leg. A source close to the situation describes the injury as “dire,” noting that amputation of the leg is a possibility.

      The same source said Jones did not sustain any serious injuries to his upper body and that the situation was not life-threatening.

      New Orleans police spokeswoman Shereese Harper said Jones was driving his 2010 Range Rover on North Carrollton, headed toward Canal Street, when he lost control and hit a streetcar pole.

      Emergency crews had to cut him out of the vehicle, Harper said. Two other people in the car were not badly injured.

      Jones was taken to a local hospital, where he was in critical condition and was in surgery Friday morning, Harper said.

      Here’s hoping Jones makes a full recovery and he can walk again. Reports earlier in the day stated that doctors had saved his left leg, but amputation still hasn’t been ruled out. From the looks of the photos, it’s fortunate that everyone made it out without any life-threatening injuries.

      Nobody currently knows how the accident happened or if Jones was being a reckless driver. It’s also unclear at this point whether or not he had been drinking before the accident, so it’s not fair to speculate if he was driving while inebriated. I’ll update this post as more information is released.

      External Sports, NFL

      Looking back on Joe Horn’s career

      June 25, 2010 /

      As a fan, there was always something that drove me absolutely nuts about Joe Horn. I couldn’t figure out why until later in his career, but looking back I think the answer was simple: He always made plays when they mattered most.

      According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Horn will retire after signing a contract with the Saints, who elected him into their Hall of Fame earlier this spring. He’ll hang ‘em up with 603 receptions, 8,744 receiving yards, 58 touchdowns and four Pro Bowl appearances to his credit.

      Compared to other receiving greats, there wasn’t anything uniquely special about Horn, although he certainly had enough speed, intelligence and playmaking ability to torch defensive backs every Sunday. He also had incredibly soft hands, which is something that is often overlooked in today’s day and age, where 40 times for receivers often carry more importance to scouts.

      Granted, even some Saint fans won’t miss him. He was a controversial player at times, always ready to speak his mind and his attitude rubbed some the wrong way. He’ll also probably be more remembered for his cell phone touchdown celebration than for his play on the field. But in the end, his contributions (especially during the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged season of 2005 when he became the unofficial spokesperson for the team) to the Saints far outweigh whatever negative attention he may have brought to himself throughout his career. He was a leader on a team that desperately lacked that trait for many years and he’ll always have a place in Saints history.

      In the end, Horn won’t be remembered as a great receiver. But for those that watched him play (whether you rooted for him or hoped he would trip over a pylon and be swallowed whole by the turf), he left an impression.

      External Sports, NFL

      Jeremiah Masoli and the NFL supplemental draft

      June 25, 2010 /

      If I were a NFL GM (and God willing someday I will be, thanks to my extensive sports blogging experience) there isn’t enough booze in an Irish pub to get me drunk enough to select former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli in July’s supplemental draft.

      Despite having one year of eligibility remaining, The Oregonian reported earlier this week that Masoli is expected to enter the supplemental draft. This news comes three weeks after the University of Oregon football program booted him off the team following his second legal incident in six months.

      In March, Masoli and fellow genius Garrett Embry pled guilty to second-degree burglary after they robbed a campus frat house for two laptop computers and a guitar in late January. Oregon suspended Masoli for the entire 2010 season, although stated that if stayed out of trouble, he could return to the football team for his final year of eligibility in 2011.

      But in early June, Masoli was charged with possession of marijuana, driving with a suspended license and failure to stop at a driveway or a sidewalk. Head coach Chip Kelly had no choice but to kick him off the team entirely following that incident, which brings us to our current situation.

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      College Football, External Sports, NFL

      Report: Marlins to offer manager job to Bobby Valentine

      June 25, 2010 /

      The Marlins have apparently already found their replacement for Fredi Gonzalez.

      From the Miami Herald:

      Bobby Valentine is expected to be offered the job as the Florida Marlins’ next manager.

      Valentine, an analyst for ESPN, confirmed through an e-mail he was flying to South Florida to meet with close friend and Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria and several team executives.

      That’s when Loria is expected to offer the 60-year-old former Rangers and Mets skipper a four-year contract to become the organization’s 11th manager, ESPN reported Thursday night.

      Team president David Samson confirmed he called Valentine moments after the team fired its winningest manager, Fredi Gonzalez, Wednesday morning. Samson said Thursday that Valentine’s interview Friday would be the first in a series with “several” candidates.

      It was a little strange that the Marlins decided to fire Gonzalez after winning two straight games. (Usually owners wait until the team is on a downslide to fire the manager.) But if they already had Valentine lined up as a candidate and felt good that he would agree to come aboard, then their timing with Gonzalez makes more sense.

      Valentine last managed in the big leagues from 1996 to 2002 with the Mets. He was with the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2004 until he was fired in 2009 and has spent the last year with ESPN.

      I’m dying to see how he and Hanley Ramirez will get along.

      External Sports, MLB

      LenDale White sounds off about Pete Carroll

      June 24, 2010 /

      While appearing on Clay Travis’ radio show on 104-5 The Zone in Nashville, former Titans and Seahawks’ running back LenDale White had some unflattering things to say about Pete Carroll and his former coach’s involvement in the USC scandal surrounding Reggie Bush.

      On USC (from Larry Brown Sports):

      “I don’t want to bad mouth nobody, but as big as this scale is and as much as they (the NCAA) saying somebody took, for you not to know anything is kind of unbelievable to me. I don’t know. If you’re the athletic director I’m pretty sure you get wind of something, that somebody’s put something in your ear. When I was going to school there, and we were partying too much on campus, coaches could show up at our dorm room and tell us to calm the partying down. But you can’t tell if somebody took a $750,000 home? I don’t know. It’s weird to me.”

      On his release from the Seahawks:

      “I was shocked. I’m still shocked. I would figure if there was a problem or anything needed to be said or done, that my old coach would grab me to the side and whisper something in my ear and tell me step it up or do something different. I would figure that.”

      “Thursday (the day before the release) when I was leaving practice, Pete Carroll hugged me and told me everything was going well. I thought everything was fine. I went to Vegas, just having fun for Memorial Day weekend and then I get a call Friday morning telling me they’re going in another (direction). I never really got an explanation.”

      “I actually called Pete and asked Pete what was going on. Pete never knows why anything, right? Pete, he beat around the bush. He just said it wasn’t going to work out. He didn’t really give me an answer. He didn’t give me a clear explanation.”

      When he showed up to the NFL scouting combine in 2006, White was so out of shape that one GM was actually quoted as saying that he “needed a bra.”

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      External Sports, NFL

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