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Yeah, it did. It really did. I’m shocked too. But The T.O. Bowl lived up to the hype. Not well-played football, but a really exciting, back-and-forth game that, of course, the Eagles won.
And so, it’s going to be a all gloating, all day. Terrell Owens didn’t even have a good game! And, really, what a finish for the Eagles.
Hopefully, this will keep your mind off the ridiculously, possible scary news going on today. (Namely, that the No. 11 and No. 5 media markets are meeting in the ALCS. Totally unacceptable to have one of those not be in the top 10. Oh, I guess that’s only possible scary news if you’re a Fox executive. I don’t know if there’s any other scary news going on today.)
LITO, LITO, LITO, LITO [Daily News]
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dmac | 9:35 AM | 0 Comments
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Oct
6
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Terrell Owens has a children’s book coming out. Called Little T Learns To Share.
I’ll pause while you laugh, even if you’ve heard about it before.
Okay, let’s move on. Yes, T.O. is coming out with a series of children’s books, each one more horrifying than the next:
“I tried to play outside alone and throw it by myself, but football isn’t football unless you play with someone else,” Little T tells his mother in the book, the [Dallas Morning News] said.
Owens is writing a number of books with Courtney Parker as part of “T.O.’s Timeout Series.” The second volume, “Little T Learns What Not to Say,” is due this spring 2007; “Little T Learns To Say I’m Sorry” is expected to hit shelves next fall.
“It’s a life lesson for discipline,” Parker told the newspaper. “It’s ironic because he’s considered one of the more undisciplined players in the NFL.”
Clearly, the first page of Little T Learns What Not to Say will be something like, “Don’t say yes when the officer asks if you were trying to harm yourself.”
Owens, friend writing series of children’s books [ESPN.com]
Cover image via Galleycat
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dmac | 3:00 PM | 0 Comments
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Oct
3
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• There has been a brouhaha apparently going on about everyone’s favorite internment camp defender, Michelle Malkin, on the letters pages of the Camden Courier Post for a while now. Today, a Malkin defender writes: “They don’t want people to just stop reading a column. They want to keep others from reading an opinion which differs from theirs. It is similar to the extremist terrorists who feel that, if you don’t follow their teachings, you should be made to pay with your life. How dare someone not agree with them.” Wow. I didn’t know Malkin’s detractors wanted her and her readers dead. Hmm. The more you know. [Courier Post]
• Oh, it is Tuesday afternoon, and that means it is the start of the T.O.-returns-to-Philly circus! Be prepared for almost a whole week of rehashing last season, Super Bowl 39 highlights and speculations about T.O.’s possible suicide attempt. By Thursday, you won’t be able to keep your lunch down, no sir. [Inquirer]
• Here are Mark Foley’s IMs to a congressional page. Foley messages: “did you spank it this weekend yourself?” Hot, hot, hot. Er, wait. [ABC News]
• The Phillies “good” bullpen might not have been so “good” after all. Who’d a-thunk it? [Beerleaguer]
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dmac | 4:03 PM | 0 Comments
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Oct
2
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Commentary on Terrell Owens from the his SI.com column today:
And, though I won’t harp on it, let me say I certainly give more credence to the initial police report than I do the “I didn’t attempt suicide” admission by Owens the next day. Why have we all been so quick to dismiss the Dallas police report from officers on the scene? The report said Owens had attempted suicide, and said his publicist Kim Etheredge told police Owens had been depressed, and said that when officers asked Owens if he had attempted to harm himself, he said, “Yes.” Yet just because Owens denied it all a day later and said he didn’t remember being questioned because he was too groggy, he’s getting a hall pass in many circles. Not in this one.
Yeah, you tell him, Peter King! You’re not giving that bully troublemaker T.O. a hall pass even though you have no idea what actually happened! Yeah! Don’t give him a hall pass in your circle! Stand up to the media mob!
I’d go down the Linc and tell off Peter King myself tonight, but, wouldn’t you know it, I don’t have a hall pass.
The old, boring Eagles [SI.com]
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dmac | 2:42 PM | 0 Comments
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Sep
27
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• Your final T.O. update of the day: He says he wasn’t attempting suicide. Said the report of him taking 35 pills was “absurd” and everything was just a misunderstanding. Take what you want from that. [ESPN.com]
• A group of parents are upset because — wait for it! — the Philadelphia School District has declared October “Gay & Lesbian History Month.” “As a parent, I do understand why they would want to include everyone,” said Addie Williams, who’s on the Home and School council. “But… I personally would not want to announce that or include that in a public setting because I believe in a man and a woman - a mother-and-a-father household.” Translation: “I like everyone, except for those queers.” [Daily News]
• There’s nothing like a little bit of needless fighting to remind you how great the “good old days” were: “If I did not understand by ‘words’ what respect meant, then Mom, using Dad’s leather belt across my butt or the back of the legs, surely did! And sometimes it might even be the neighbor who taught a kid ‘respect.’ My old gym teacher? When he caught two kids fighting in the school yard? He ‘drug’ them down to the school gym and on went the boxing gloves. They slugged it out until one hollered, ‘I quit.’” Ahh, is there anything better than an adult writing a letter to the editor about his fantasies of beating up random kids because they looked at him the wrong way? [Chestnut Hill Local]
• Five of the state’s racetrack casinos have been approved by the state Gaming Control Board. Let the money wasting begin! [Inquirer]
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dmac | 4:05 PM | 0 Comments
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