I thought for a moment that this was going to be a spoof of the whole Brett Favre saga (since he’s on the cover), but this is the real deal. It’s a trailer for Madden ’09, and it looks scary fun.
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Yahoo! Sports is reporting that the Arizona Cardinals are doing everything in their power to make sure that University of Phoenix Stadium isn’t filled with Dallas Cowboys fans when they meet on October 12.
“In the past two seasons, there was little concern about this since the team sold out every home game. But with ticket sales a bit slower as the third season approaches, the Cardinals are requiring fans who want to buy tickets to the Dallas game on Oct. 12 to also buy tickets for the Aug. 7 exhibition opener vs. New Orleans. Cardinals fans have “created a decisive home-field advantage” the past two years, and the team wants to keep it that way by discouraging single-game ticket sales to Dallas Cowboys fans, team spokesman Mark Dalton said.”
I can understand why a team wouldn’t want their stadium filled with the opposing team’s fans, but c’mon, this is ridiculous. Are you telling me that if I were a Cowboys fan, I’d have to buy a ticket to watch the Saints and Cardinals square off in an exhibition game? The first pre-season game is by far the worst to watch and the fact that exhibition tickets cost just as much as regular season tickets only makes it more painful. Maybe the Cardinals should worry more about putting a winning product on the field. Perhaps then Arizona fans would be more eager to come out and support their team.
So far, Marcus Williams has been a bust. The former first-round pick (#22 overall) clearly hasn’t panned out, as he’s averaging just 6.4 points and 3.0 assists and shooting 38.9% from the field in his brief career. That didn’t stop Golden State from trading a future first round pick for him.
The trade will be announced later today.
The pick is lottery protected for 2011, so the Nets get it if the Warriors are in the playoffs. If it goes to 2012, the pick is protected 1-11. It’s protected 1-10 for 2013.
If it is not conveyed by 2013, the Nets get second-round picks in 2013 and 2015.
When he came into the league, Williams was supposed to be a pass-first point guard, but he now has a rep for firing up a lot of bad shots. It will be interesting to see if Don Nelson and his staff can turn him into a legitimate NBA point guard. The pick is lottery protected, so there’s limited downside for the Warriors.
As for the Nets, with the acquisition of Keyon Dooling and last year’s trade for Devin Harris, the writing was on the wall for Williams. Sometimes a player just needs a change of scenery.
The Chicago Bears and middle linebacker Brian Urlacher have reached an agreement on a restructured contract according to ESPN.com.
Urlacher, 30, had four years and approximately $25.5 million remaining on his contract. Under the terms of the upgraded deal, Urlacher will receive a $6 million signing bonus along with a $1 million bump in salary each of the next four years. The sides also have agreed to extend the pact into 2012, at a salary of $7.5 million. Urlacher can earn an additional $500,000 in a workout bonus in 2012.
That’s a total of roughly $43.5 million over the next five years, with $18 million in new money for the six-time Pro Bowler and four-time All Pro.
Boy, the Bears certainly go about things the hard way sometimes, but they’ve made their star players happy (of late). Lance Briggs got a new contract at the start of the 2007 season and now Urlacher is set to go until 2012.
Even though he was hampered by nagging injuries last year, there’s no denying Urlacher is still Chicago’s best option at middle linebacker in their Tampa 2 defense. With how important the position is in that type of defense, the Bears could ill afford not to pay Urlacher and have him back on the field in 2008.
Former USC Trojan and current Cincinnati Bengals’ quarterback Carson Palmer had some choice words for the Ohio State football program in a recent interview with a Los Angeles radio station.
I cannot stand the Buckeyes. It’s amazing to hear what those guys think about that university and what they think about that football program and Tressel and all the crap I gotta put up with being back there.
I just can’t wait for two years from now when SC comes to the ‘Shoe and hopefully we’ll have a home game that weekend, and I can go up there and watch us pound on them in their own turf.
I’m really getting sick of it, and I just can’t wait for this game to get here so they can come out to the Coliseum and experience LA and get an old-fashioned Pac-10 butt-whoopin’ and go back to the Big Ten.
Shortly afterwards, Palmer did his best defensive back impersonation and backpedaled:
“I’m a Trojan all the way, and I was talking to a Trojan audience in California. I guess I got a little fired up, as all good fans will do. But I really do respect the Buckeyes, and I know their fans are passionate, too. I hope they all understand I’m just looking forward to a big game for my school against a very tough opponent, and that it’s all in the good fun of a rivalry. You don’t have a real rivalry unless both sides are great teams.”
In the immortal words of White Goodman (Ben Stiller) from Dodgeball: You don’t crap where you eat, Palmer. You might be a Trojan through and through, but you make your earning in the state that Woody Hayes built. Better choose your words carefully.
Actually, I love what Palmer said (pre-backpedal). Current and former USC players should hate Ohio State and vice versa. Rivalries are part of what college football is all about.
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