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What does a Duke education get you these days? It gets you a job as a video coordinator for Ohio State’s men’s basketball team. Head basketball coach, Thad Matta, announced yesterday that Greg Paulus will be joining their staff. Paulus played basketball at Duke from ’06-’09 and then transferred to Syracuse for a one year stint as their starting quarterback. You may remember that Paulus was stuffed down our throats by ESPN during his stint at Duke; just like all other Duke players are.  

Tim Teabow should sue Charlie Sheen for his “winning” slogan because no one continues to win more than Teabow. The Denver Broncos have made it clear they are going to proceed forward with Teabow as their starting quarterback. I have to remind you that this is the same franchise that traded away this year’s Madden cover boy, Peyton Hillis. Not all of their decisions have been great. John Fox is their new head coach so maybe he knows what he’s doing at the QB position and evaluating talent? Wait, didn’t he waste a second round pick on Jimmy Clausen last year? Good luck Bronco fans, you really are rebuilding now.

The Broncos will shop Kyle Orton when the lockout is over. They are asking for a 1^st or 2^nd round pick(s) for Orton. Poor Brady Quinn… that draft night slide goes into year 5.

When I heard Anna Kournikova was going to be on the “Biggest Loser” I thought that was a bit harsh. Granted she never won a Grand Slam singles title but come on, she’s no Jo-Jo Reyes!

AP going Hollywood?

How good would Adrian Peterson look rolling down the Sunset Strip? His million dollar smile would be worth billions in Los Angeles. The possibility of Los Angeles finally getting a pro football team again took a small step forward this week when Minnesota Vikings officials met with members of AEG in Los Angeles. AEG is the group that has proposed a stadium plan for LA. Vikings officials claim they were meeting with AEG officials not because AEG needs a team to agree to move to LA before they build their stadium, but because they were interested in the sports training complex AEG recently completed. Right! I’m sure the Vikings are not trying to use this possible move as leverage against the state of Minnesota to get a new stadium built.

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Reports earlier this week came out that Rush Limbaugh is still delusional enough to believe he could possibly be a NFL owner one day. Limbaugh let it be known that he is interested in purchasing the Minnesota Vikings... and the world groans with you. Limbaugh came under major scrutiny in 2009 when he was part of an owners group wanting to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh’s presence as one of the owners became a major distraction due to Limbaugh’s on-air comments about Donovan McNabb. That ownership group quickly removed Limbaugh as one of their members. In 2003 Limbaugh had an ill-advised stint on ESPN as a pro football commentator. He only lasted a couple of weeks after he said the media and the NFL are giving Donovan McNabb the benefit of the doubt as a quarterback because he is black and they want a black quarterback to succeed in the NFL. Luckily ESPN fired Limbaugh immediately.

Just to clarify, politics and sports should never mix. Any form of sports for fans should be an escape from the daily grind, not a reminder of all that is going on in the world… good or bad. Limbaugh is fooling himself if he thinks NFL owners and players will ever agree to let him be an owner. NFL owners, even if they like Limbaugh personally, will never back him because they would lose the support of their players. ESPN was wrong to put him on-air and luckily he shot himself in his big mouth in 2003. 

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