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2010年9月30日星期四
2010年9月26日星期日
BIG AUDIENCE Colts-Giants Game Last Sunday Drew Big Crowd
Last Sunday’s Colts-Giants game drew the second-largest regular season crowd at Lucas Oil Stadium with an announced attendance of 67,275, of which Colts Owner and CEO Jim Rise donated one dollar for each fan at the game to the United Way of Central nfl jersey
Indiana.
The game was a big hit on television, too. According to the National Football League and The Nielsen Company, the game rated as the top primetime show on Sunday with 23.1 million viewers. And it not only ranked number one in Indianapolis with a 44.4 household rating and a 62 share—the highest Buffalo Bills jersey
local rating in the league—the Colts-Giants game also ranked as the most-watched event Sunday in the San Francisco-Oakland and New Orleans markets.
NFL games topped the ratings in all 30 local NFL markets for the second consecutive week, the first time games have rated number one in each market in the first two weeks of a season.
The Colts have a history of playing well in primetime, particularly Steelers jersey
on Sundays. The Colts are 9-2 in Sunday night regular-season games since 2006, and have six consecutive wins. The Colts won all three of their Sunday night appearances in 2009, including a 35-34 fourth-quarter comeback win over New England. The club’s last loss on a Sunday night was the season-opener in 2008 to Chicago.
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The game was a big hit on television, too. According to the National Football League and The Nielsen Company, the game rated as the top primetime show on Sunday with 23.1 million viewers. And it not only ranked number one in Indianapolis with a 44.4 household rating and a 62 share—the highest Buffalo Bills jersey
local rating in the league—the Colts-Giants game also ranked as the most-watched event Sunday in the San Francisco-Oakland and New Orleans markets.
NFL games topped the ratings in all 30 local NFL markets for the second consecutive week, the first time games have rated number one in each market in the first two weeks of a season.
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on Sundays. The Colts are 9-2 in Sunday night regular-season games since 2006, and have six consecutive wins. The Colts won all three of their Sunday night appearances in 2009, including a 35-34 fourth-quarter comeback win over New England. The club’s last loss on a Sunday night was the season-opener in 2008 to Chicago.
2010年9月25日星期六
Seahawks pick McLaughlin as new president
Peter McLaughlin’s new role as president of the Seattle Seahawks is strictly focused on the business side of the operation.
Football is clearly in the hands of Pete Carroll and John Schneider.
McLaughlin was introduced as the new president of the nfl throwback jerseys
Seahawks, Seattle Sounders FC and First and Goal Inc. on Thursday. He comes to the Seahawks after four years as CEO of the NHL's St. Louis Blues and replaces Todd Lei eke, who announced at the end of July he was leaving as the head of Paul Allen's Vulcan Sports and Entertainment to become CEO and minority owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
''There is so much positive here and we're going to continue to work hard to improve things,'' McLaughlin said.
When Carroll and Schneider were brought on earlier this year, there were questions on the hierarchy of authority and whether the football duo reported to Lei eke, who served as the bridge between the football operations and Allen, the Seahawks' owner.
With McLaughlin coming aboard, it's clear that all football-related decisions are in the hands of Carroll and Schneider and go directly to Allen.
''There's been some conjecture on football reporting. Fact is football reports into ownership. One of the cool things about Peter and his candidacy is he said to me, 'These football guys have forgotten more than I'll ever know.' He wasn't coming here to draw plays or draft players,'' Lei eke said. ''... Football will continue to report into ownership and Peter is going to do everything he can to support it. He'll have jurisdiction over budgets, annual budgets and those things, but this is a structure like most other NFL teams and really how it worked for us Buffalo Bills jersey
under my leadership.''
Mike McCarthy, vice chairman of the Blues, has been named interim CEO while the team conducts a national search for McLaughlin’s replacement.
McLaughlin’s responsibilities will not be as far-reaching as Peewee’s were. When Lei eke was appointed to oversee all of Allen's sports ventures in 2007, he took on managing the operations of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers.
McLaughlin is strictly focused on the two franchises in Seattle and the organization that operates Qwest Field.
''We saw a lot of things in the recruiting process that reminded us of Todd in that recruiting process seven years ago,'' said Bert Kolbe, vice chair of the Vulcan board of directors. ''I think Todd has made a huge difference to the fan base ... and I think Peter can take that forward.''
There are many similarities between Lei eke and McLaughlin, who have known each other for many years. Most obvious is a connection with the NHL, where McLaughlin is leaving and where Lei eke is returning.
Before spending four years with the Blues and helping revitalize that franchise, McLaughlin worked 21 years in various positions at Anheuser-Busch. His final position with the beer giant was to be in charge of negotiating sponsorships that included Super Bowls, the Olympics and the World Cup.
''Peter is a bright, proven leader who believes as I do that the fans always come first and understands the importance of community,'' Allen said in a statement. ''He is experienced in all aspects of the business side of sports.''
Despite their past friendship, Lei eke insisted McLaughlin Steelers jersey
wasn't handed the opportunity to take over in Seattle and that he ''earned the right to be here.''
''I'm here to be a great fan of both teams, to work hard, serve the fans, give back to the community and to help John and Pete (Carroll) and the Sounders have the resources to put championships in the Seattle community,'' McLaughlin said. ''I just couldn't be happier to be here.''
2010年9月24日星期五
24 sep 10 Reds routed by Brewers, but magic number down to 3
MILWAUKEE (AP)—Cincinnati pitcher Aaron Harang(notes) hobbled off after being hit in the leg by a line drive Wednesday night and the NL Central-leading Reds had their magic number cut to three despite losing 13-1 to the Milwaukee Brewers. Craig Counsell(notes) homered during Milwaukee’s eight-run football jersey
second inning. Corey Hart(notes) homered the next inning and the Brewers finished with 19 hits.
The Reds moved closer to clinching the division when second-place St. Louis lost to Pittsburgh 11-6.
Cincinnati’s surge toward the playoffs hit a bump, however, when Johnny Cueto(notes) (12-6) had his shortest start of the season and Harang, normally a starter, was struck in the right ankle by Rickie Weeks’(notes) liner in the fourth inning.
The sound of the ball hitting Harang was audible in the press box. X-rays were negative and Harang had a bruise.
Harang limped toward as it rolled near the third-base line. He bent over in pain, then spiked his glove before being assisted off the field.
Randy Wolf(notes) (13-11) allowed a two-out walk, a single by Scott Rolen(notes) and Johnny Gomes’ RBI single in the first, but then settled down and retired the next 11 batters. Wolf gave up four hits over six innings and struck out seven.
Casey McGehee(notes) drove in four runs with a pair of Bills jersey
two-run doubles, giving him 99 RBIs.
After scoring just 13 runs in the last five games, the Brewers erupted against the Reds. Counsell’s second homer of the season, a three-run shot off Cueto, highlighted the big inning.
George Kottaras(notes) and Wolf each drove in a run, Prince Fielder(notes) drew a bases-loaded walk, McGehee doubled and Counsell chased Cueto with his first homer since April 18.
Harang, who made his second relief appearance since Sept. 14 against Arizona, came on and allowed Lorenzo Cain’s(notes) second double of the inning. The Brewers ended a 13-game stretch in which Reds starters had not allowed more than three earned runs.
The Brewers had struggled against Cueto in his two other starts this season, managing just two earned runs over 13 innings. This time, the right-hander was gone after 1 1-3 innings as the Brewers won for just the second time in 11 games this season against the Reds.
McGehee hit a two-run double in the fourth. Hart’ sacrifice fly in the fifth gave him a career-high 94 RBIs.
Brewers star Ryan Braun exited in the fifth with a bruised left elbow after being hit by a pitch from Sam LeCure(notes).
Notes: Cueto’ shortest career start was two-thirds of 49ers jersey
an inning on July 6, 2009, at Philadelphia. … Reds 1B Joey Votto(notes) missed his second consecutive game with a sinus infection. INF Yonder Alonso(notes), promoted Sept. 1 from Triple-A Louisville, made his major league debut with a start in place of Votto. … Cain had his first four-hit game for Milwaukee.
2010年9月22日星期三
Tom Powers: That old Brett Favre magic is so last season for Vikings
Brett Favre and the Vikings' offense had labored all game Sunday at the Metrodome. But with 1:42 left, they took the field, trailing by four points, 55 yards from victory. Favre has made a career out of situations such as these. And not one soul from among the sellout crowd for the season's first home game had dared move toward the exit. This was Favre time.
On the sideline, coach Brad Childress felt confident. Despite watching Favre occasionally misfire against the Dolphins and watching a sub-par receiving corps struggle nfl jersey
to make plays, he was convinced something good was about to happen. He could sense it.
"You do," he agreed afterward. "And we had a timeout left."
Not this time. What in the past would have been a final, glorious Vikings touchdown drive fizzled. The last play was a raggedy-looking short pass toward Visanthe Shiancoe over the middle. Then the Vikings walked off the field, heads down, staring at an oh and two record after their 14-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins.
Somewhere in Vikings Land there is a big red button just waiting to be pushed. Then sirens will wail and buzzers will bellow. Then it officially will be time to panic. Can that button be pushed after just two games?
"I know this much," Favre said, "oh and two is not good."
No, it isn't. I'm all for getting a leg up on panicking.
"It's a 14-game season right now, and we're sitting at the bottom of it," Favre said. "What we do from here remains to be seen. It won't get any easier."
Favre did not have a good day. There must have been times when that rocking chair on the front porch back in Mississippi looked pretty good. Unfortunately, he doesn't have anybody to throw to other than Shiancoe, the tight end. Percy Harvin caught a few flips early. But he is a physical wreck and plays sporadically. Greg Camarillo remains uninvolved. Bernard Berrian is about as useful as a hood ornament.
Favre continues to throw balls to Berrian as if he were throwing to Sidney Rice. The latter could come back and get a ball. Or he could go up and get a ball. Berrian, supposedly the go-to guy in Rice's absence, can't seem to do much of anything. Favre threw a "back shoulder" pass to him at the goal line in the third Dallas Cowboys jersey
quarter. It's something they've worked on in practice. But it ended up picked off.
"I put it where I wanted it, let's put it that way," Favre said.
Rice might catch that ball, but not Berrian. Of Favre's three intercepted passes, two were intended for Berrian. The other was one that Harvin botched near the goal line.
Asked if he thought Berrian was expending maximum effort, Favre replied: "I believe so. I'll watch the film. I think Bernard's heart is in the right place. I believe in my mind he did all he could do. If I felt otherwise, I wouldn't throw it to him. We go to bat with what we got, me included."
Not that Favre was blameless. He remains out of sync with his receivers, such as they are. And he lost the ball in the end zone, handing a touchdown to the Dolphins. Favre later lamented the loss of Rice and running back Chester Taylor, and Harvin's poor health, which has kept him either out of action or less than a hundred percent. Clearly, the front office needs to acquire wide receiver Vincent Jackson from San Diego before the season slips away. Or before everyone loses interest.
"It's not for me to decide," Favre said. "I've heard the talk, just like everybody else."
The Miami Dolphins aren't chopped liver, but there's no way they should waltz out of the Metrodome with a victory. Remember, the Vikings went 9-0 at home last season. And this year was supposed to be Super Bowl Run, Part Deux. Favre noted that he felt terrible about it. It's the exact feeling that he hoped to avoid by retiring.
"One of the biggest reasons I wanted to not play was dealing with losses," Favre said. "I love the guys. I love to win. If we had won on the last play today, it would have been great.
"We got to play Detroit this week. All I know is we got to get better."
Listen, if the Lions aren't the cure for what ails the Vikings, then the disease is fatal. Chargers jersey
Just turn off the lights and say goodnight. That game, at the Metrodome, is followed by a bye week. If they lose to the Lions they might lose to the bye week, too.
"I don't know how many times I've been 0-2," Favre said. "I don't know how many times I've been 2-0. I know it feels a lot better to be 2-0. I came back to give this team a chance to win and to be a part of it. My hope is that we still do that. I know it's going to be tough."
Monte Poole: Everyone staying away from Raiders
The vacancies evident today inside the Coliseum are not a reaction to the events of last Sunday, when the Raiders were spanked in Tennessee.
Nor are they a direct response to 2009, when the Raiders submitted yet another season in which they averaged at least two losses for every win.
The exodus began with competent men removing themselves nfl throwback jerseys
from consideration as head coach, starting with Sean Payton in 2004 and including Ken Whisenhunt a couple years later.
The pattern soon became apparent on the field, too, with the aging of great players like Tim Brown and Steve Wisniewski, with those whose bodies had betrayed them, like Rich Gannon and Lincoln Kennedy, and those who later arrived with a glimmer of hope before concluding conditions were not conducive to prosperity.
Like, most famously, Randy Moss.
Even some of the retired Raiders, noble servants when Al Davis was king, started peeling away, feeling unappreciated or, worse, as if their input was unwanted.
Suddenly, nobody wanted to be here.
Who, then, is left by now but the most devoted fans? Those who waved Raiders flags when the team was in Los Angeles, bought new ones when the team returned to Oakland, were rewarded three consecutive postseason appearances only to witness in the aftermath seven seasons of witless deconstruction.
They may bleed Silver and Black. They may be passionate soldiers devoted to everything it means to maintain membership in the Raider Nation. But how much are they supposed to take? It was a matter of time before they, too, began abandoning Al and whatever it is he is trying to accomplish.
Oh, they fought the good fight. They continued to worship at the Church of Al, defending absurd personnel decisions, staying loyal through preposterous draft picks and carefully swallowing the wildest offseason spending spree in franchise history. They withstood serial losing and league-wide ridicule. They even tolerated, with some embarrassment, the most bizarre news conference in NFL history.
But thousands began declining the Raiderade last season. They put down the cups and walked away, fleeing en masse.
And today, when the Raiders step onto the field for their home opener aMinnesota Vikings jersey
gainst St. Louis, the once-fearsome Coliseum and its Black Hole will be a rumor of its former self. Too many finally have taken a cue from Payton and Whisenhunt and Sarkisian.
The game did not sell out or even come close to selling out. This will be the eighth of nine home games blacked out on local TV because not enough tickets were sold. The 63,000-seat facility will have thousands of empty seats for a game in which the Raiders are favored.
Part of this can be blamed on the battered economy, which has saved its most destructive work for California. Part of it can be attributed to the depth of sports and entertainment alternatives in the Bay Area. Nationally ranked Stanford played Saturday night. The Giants, in the final weeks of a hot pennant race, are home today. The 49ers on Monday play host to defending champion New Orleans at Candlestick Park.
There are lots of options, and the Raiders happen to be among the least appealing.
And most of the empties today are an indictment of the sorry state of franchise operations. As if losing 84 of 113 games isn't bad enough, Davis continues to be stubbornly stubborn about seeking real solutions.
Such arrogance can be tolerated while triumphant, as the Raiders once were. And defiance, one of the few characteristics where Al has lost nothing, can be intriguing when you're the charismatic maverick, back-handing a league of stuffy conformists.
But when your team is losing at a rate the league has never known, arrogance and defiance are just plain pathetic.
Raiders fans don't always agree; when some dared to put up a billboard urging Davis to replace himself as general manager, others distanced themselves from the movement. There is unanimity, though, in that no fan worth their Silver and Black blood wants to embrace pathetic.
The franchise has fallen so far that Jon Gruden, the former Raiders coach in town with the Monday Night Football crew, could hold an "I'm coming back to the Raiders" rally at Oracle Arena today and there would be higher demand for tickets.
Is this a case of mass apathy? No, because too many still care.
Is it mass surrender? No, because too many still are willing to root.
It's a mass passive-aggressive protest, because these fans don't have many Indianapolis Colts jersey
remaining options that might be heard.
Though a victory today would be help, it would not be a solution. The issue is much bigger than one game or even a single season. Only one man can address this. If he weren't so busy believing it's not broken, he might notice the silence.
Purdy: San Francisco 49ers' game with New Orleans Saints much bigger for Mike Singletary than team
Do not believe the hype. Tonight is not a make-or-break game for the 49ers. They do not have to beat the New Orleans Saints to reach the playoffs. Starting the season 0-2 is not fatal. Dallas and Minnesota both have 0-2 records. Anyone think they're toast?
Tonight, however, could be a make-or-break game for Mike Singletary. football jerseys
His team, win or lose, must play viciously and play smart. The 49ers cannot lay a stink bomb and make Candlestick Park's concourses smell worse than they already do.
And if that stink happens, after all of the emotional capital spent by their head coach this past week? Well, then something is definitely wrong at the Bank of Singletary. And he will have a nearly impossible time convincing anyone that he can ever get the balance sheet back in order.
Dull, this man is not. But it's still an open question whether that helps or hurts a game plan, against New Orleans or anyone else.
Singletary began last week by downplaying the issue of whether offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye was having trouble communicating plays to quarterback Alex Smith. But at midweek, after an online news report about the miscommunication, Singletary reversed his previous downplaying policy. He ranted about a possible "rat" in the 49ers building, then during a live TV interview barked at KPIX sports voice Dennis O'Donnell's legitimate questions -- before dramatically proclaiming that the 49ers "will not try and stop" the Saints offense but flatly "will stop" quarterback Drew Brees.
Except, it turns out that isn't what Singletary really meant. Over the weekend when a reporter -- OK, this reporter -- asked him to define "stopping" the Saints, the coach did a backpedal.
Singletary said he was merely sticking up for his own players. He explained that no coach in the NFL believes his team can't stop another team.
"I want you to understand this," Singletary said. "As much as I respect the Saints offense and what they've been able to do, I'm very excited about our ability to do some things on defense, as well."
So why didn't he just say that in the first place? Because it wouldn't be the Singletarian way. Watching him at work is easily the Bay Area's most compelling spectator activity. But it gives you pause in these two respects:
1. Look, we understand. Singletary is a passionate guy. He wants his players' best effort, 16 times a season. But he can't possibly have his team at the highest emotional peak for all 16 games, can he? Because that's what seems to be his goal. And you wonder if it will just wear out the players psychologically.
2. Until he otherwise disperses the notion, Singletary remains under the theoretical cloud that Hall of Fame players will always have a difficult time becoming great head coaches.
The theory goes this way: To reach the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a Cowboys jersey
player, a man must have immense physical talents and combine them with the utmost intensity and focus. But when those Hall of Fame players become coaches, they grow frustrated because not all the men they coach are as talented or as intense. And it is difficult for those Hall of Famers to handle that dynamic.
More than a dozen Hall of Fame players have become head coaches in the NFL. Only one has coached Super Bowl winner. That would be Mike Ditka -- who, of course, was Singletary's head coach in Chicago.
Two other Hall of Fame players -- Forrest Gregg and Raymond Berry -- coached teams to the Super Bowl and lost the game. But the others, from Otto Graham to Tom Fears to Mike McCormack, have mostly compiled losing records.
It's probably no surprise, then, that Singletary appears to be following the Ditka model as a head coach. Although he was full of demanding bluster and smoke, Ditka was actually a very caring guy underneath who not only understood each player's quirks but also totally grasped the theatrical aspects of being an NFL head coach.
Thus, the Singletary variety show. One day, you think his head might explode. The next day, he calmly elucidates his philosophy. If you ask the players in the locker room, most of them get it. At least so far.
"He knows there are different ways to motivate every person," said wide receiver Josh Morgan, who believes that every player has spent one-on-one time in Singletary's upstairs office at 49ers headquarters.
But what about the screaming?
"He brings it out at the right time," Morgan said. "He knows when."
From here, there is only one danger sign: If Singletary is attempting to assemble an entire 53-man roster of players as zealously obsessive about football as he is, that could backfire. There's never been a team like that in NFL history.
But if Singletary can indeed learn each man's strengths and maximize them as often as possible -- while ironing out those coordinator-quarterback communication issues -- then he may indeed still succeed.
Singletary has a 13-13 record after his first 26 games as a head coach. Ditka was 12-14 after his first 26 games. But after that, Ditka won 28 of his next 36 games on the way to a Super Bowl championship. Right now, it seems ridiculous to believe the 49ers could do the same thing.
"This team is a team in the making," Singletary said the other day. Pittsburgh Steelers jersey
"It takes time."
Right. But it's time not to stink. Tonight.
Bay Area News Group columnist Mark Purdy and cohorts will provide reports and commentary from tonight's Saints- 49ers game at Candlestick Park.
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