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2010年9月30日星期四
2010年9月28日星期二
Cazorla double helps Villarreal up to second in La Liga
MADRID, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Two goals from Spain winger Santi Cazorla helped Villarreal climb to second place in La Liga with a 3-2 comeback win away to 10-man Malaga on Monday.
All five goals came in a topsy-turvy opening 33 minutes with the game settling down only after Malaga’s Portuguese forward Eliseu was sent off in the 41st, allowing the visitors to take control.

Villarreal continued their strong start to the campaign, racking up football jersey
their fourth consecutive league win to move on to 12 points from five matches, one short of leaders and near neighbours Valencia.
Barcelona are third on goal difference, with Real Madrid fourth on 11 points.
Eliseu gave Malaga a fourth-minute lead after a free kick but two goals in three minutes turned the game on its head, Cazorla firing in a deflected shot and Italy’s Giuseppe Rossi netting a fine solo effort in the 24th.
Jose Rondon headed Malaga level in the 30th after good work from Quincy Owusu-Abeiye down the left, but the score changed again after only a few minutes.
Cazorla, who missed out on Spain’s World Cup finals squad because of an injury-interrupted season last year, proved he was back to his best with a superb winner cracked in from outside the area.
Just before the break, Spain defender Carlos Marchena got Eliseu sent off after theatrically falling to the ground clutching his face as the two went forehead to forehead.
PARIS (AP)—Sepp Blatter is promising US$25,000 (?18,500) for Kodjovi Obilale, the goalkeeper shot and badly injured in the terror attack on Togo’s team bus at the Africa Cup of Nations in January.
Obilale, speaking Monday by phone, said he received a letter from the FIFA president this weekend. Blatter wrote that the money would come from a FIFA humanitarian fund, Obilale said.
“It’s kind,” he said of the donation.
Obilale was shot twice in the back, suffering spinal and other injuries. He San Francisco 49ers jersey
can no longer move his right leg below the knee nor feel its foot and toes. The 25-year-old does not expect to ever again play football but hopes that, with time, he might be able to walk. For now, he uses a wheelchair.
In an interview last week with The Associated Press, Obilale said he felt that football officials abandoned him after the machine-gun attack claimed by separatists in Angola’s oil-producing Cabinda region. The Togo team’s assistant coach, its press official and their Angolan bus driver were killed.
Obilale said that neither the Confederation of African Football, which organizes the Africa Cup, nor Angola, which hosted the 2010 edition, have contacted him. He also complained that officials in Togo have been slow to help.
Frustrated, he wrote to Blatter in August asking for his assistance. Even though FIFA was not directly involved in the cup, Africa’s showpiece football tournament, Obilale felt that only football’s world governing body has the power to force CAF, Angola and Togo to come up with a decent compensation package.
“The only person who can shift all this is Mr. Blatter,” he said in the interview at his hospital in western France, where he used to play professionally.
Blatter wrote back that FIFA could not be held responsible for the “tragic” attack, Obilale said, reading the letter out by phone to The AP. But Blatter added: “We will continue to study this dossier.”
“I wish you a lot of courage,” Blatter wrote, according to Obilale.
A payment of $70,000 (?53,000) that Togo’s sports minister Buffalo Bills jersey
promised a month ago when he visited Obilale in France finally landed in his bank account last week.
Obilale said Monday that the money was sufficient to pay off three of his seven months of hospital bills. He plans to send the remainder of the bill to authorities in Togo for payment.
All five goals came in a topsy-turvy opening 33 minutes with the game settling down only after Malaga’s Portuguese forward Eliseu was sent off in the 41st, allowing the visitors to take control.
Villarreal continued their strong start to the campaign, racking up football jersey
their fourth consecutive league win to move on to 12 points from five matches, one short of leaders and near neighbours Valencia.
Barcelona are third on goal difference, with Real Madrid fourth on 11 points.
Eliseu gave Malaga a fourth-minute lead after a free kick but two goals in three minutes turned the game on its head, Cazorla firing in a deflected shot and Italy’s Giuseppe Rossi netting a fine solo effort in the 24th.
Jose Rondon headed Malaga level in the 30th after good work from Quincy Owusu-Abeiye down the left, but the score changed again after only a few minutes.
Cazorla, who missed out on Spain’s World Cup finals squad because of an injury-interrupted season last year, proved he was back to his best with a superb winner cracked in from outside the area.
Just before the break, Spain defender Carlos Marchena got Eliseu sent off after theatrically falling to the ground clutching his face as the two went forehead to forehead.
PARIS (AP)—Sepp Blatter is promising US$25,000 (?18,500) for Kodjovi Obilale, the goalkeeper shot and badly injured in the terror attack on Togo’s team bus at the Africa Cup of Nations in January.
Obilale, speaking Monday by phone, said he received a letter from the FIFA president this weekend. Blatter wrote that the money would come from a FIFA humanitarian fund, Obilale said.
“It’s kind,” he said of the donation.
Obilale was shot twice in the back, suffering spinal and other injuries. He San Francisco 49ers jersey
can no longer move his right leg below the knee nor feel its foot and toes. The 25-year-old does not expect to ever again play football but hopes that, with time, he might be able to walk. For now, he uses a wheelchair.
In an interview last week with The Associated Press, Obilale said he felt that football officials abandoned him after the machine-gun attack claimed by separatists in Angola’s oil-producing Cabinda region. The Togo team’s assistant coach, its press official and their Angolan bus driver were killed.
Obilale said that neither the Confederation of African Football, which organizes the Africa Cup, nor Angola, which hosted the 2010 edition, have contacted him. He also complained that officials in Togo have been slow to help.
Frustrated, he wrote to Blatter in August asking for his assistance. Even though FIFA was not directly involved in the cup, Africa’s showpiece football tournament, Obilale felt that only football’s world governing body has the power to force CAF, Angola and Togo to come up with a decent compensation package.
“The only person who can shift all this is Mr. Blatter,” he said in the interview at his hospital in western France, where he used to play professionally.
Blatter wrote back that FIFA could not be held responsible for the “tragic” attack, Obilale said, reading the letter out by phone to The AP. But Blatter added: “We will continue to study this dossier.”
“I wish you a lot of courage,” Blatter wrote, according to Obilale.
A payment of $70,000 (?53,000) that Togo’s sports minister Buffalo Bills jersey
promised a month ago when he visited Obilale in France finally landed in his bank account last week.
Obilale said Monday that the money was sufficient to pay off three of his seven months of hospital bills. He plans to send the remainder of the bill to authorities in Togo for payment.
2010年9月26日星期日
Let's Play Two Espanola: Just One Game Does Not a Season Make
IRVING, Texas - Some time ago, when Nor Turner was asked if he was having any fun, he uttered these everlasting words:
"Nobody is having any fun in this league."
True that.
Let's investigate.
In this particular NFL city, the center of nfl jersey
attention has been the quarterback who jetted off to New York on the off-day this week to hook up with his TV starlet squeeze, that and the fact he targeted one of his starting wide receivers just once in 35 passing attempts.
No not Dallas. T.O. and Jessica no longer are hot items here. Chicago, OK, and the Bears even won last Sunday.
Here are the first three paragraphs of the story in Thursday's most-respected Chicago Tribune:
Thankfully, nobody wasted any of Jay Cutler's weekly allotment of podium time Wednesday at Hales Hall asking him about his new favorite target.
And they said Cutler would ignore the tight end in Mike Martz's offense.
Seriously, if Cutler chose to jet to New York City to spend his off day with "The Hills" starlet Kristin Cavalla, question his fondness for reality-TV more than his time management. He's a young, single millionaire coming off a terrific game so this was a rendezvous relevant to TMZ more than the NFL.
I could not make this up. Somewhere Tony Room is laughing.
And that was followed with this quote from Cutler on why he would only complete one pass to Devin Hester in the opener: "If Devin would have gotten open, I would have thrown him the ball," and there was no tongue in cheek or a sense of sarcasm.
Whoop ... not exactly the Care Bears, 19-14 winners mind you in Week 1 over Detroit who arrive this weekend for Sunday's noon date with the Cowboys at Cowboys Stadium.
Then there is this: The Bears only converted one of four third-and-one or fourth-and-one plays, revisiting their shortcomings from the past two seasons when they picked up that one measly yard in those situations just 65.3 percent of the time, ranking them 18th - and by the way, just behind the 14th-ranked Cowboys (67.9 percent).
Ah, the one-game trend.
Or how 'bout in this other NFL city? One offensive lineman played through a foot injury. Two others returned after missing the entire preseason. And the quarterback was knocked down 10 times - eight by the same dude.
That would be in Indianapolis, the defending AFC champs run roughshod over by the Houston Texans and Mario Williams in the season opener.
Or how 'bout in this city: The starting QB already has gone down with a concussion and the starting center is out for the season.
That would be in Philadelphia.
And ... and... after losing the season opener, a disturbing trend is being exposed in this city, that this team under the current head coach has now started off seasons 1-3, 2-3, 2-3 and 0-1 in the past four years for a combined 5-10 record, yet another one of those disturbing one-game trends.
That would be San Diego, where the quarterback, Philip Rivers pleaded, "its one game out of 16. We can still get off to a fast start" after a series of penalties stalled drives and a lost fumble set up one of Kansas City's touchdowns as Nor Turner's squad went down 21-14 on Monday night at Arrowhead.
See what I mean?
Now not to find comfort in other people's misery, but the Cowboys are not alone heading into Week 2 of the NFL season. In fact they have the company of 15 as they face the Bears, who just happen to come waltzing into Cowboys Stadium with the league's No. 1 offense (463 total yards) and No. 2 defense (but 168 yards allowed), although, let's face it, they did play the Detroit Lions. And they have plenty of company with those 16 teams opening on the road, what with the visiting teams finishing Week 1 with a 4-12 record.
Welcome to the NFL, and no matter facetiously nicknamed the No Fun League, it really isn't since it's just no fun obviously when you lose, especially with those high expectations like a noose around the neck. And even when you win, well, the fun is fleeting since there's always the next game to worry about. Just think, while Cowboys fans are preoccupied this week with worries over Cutler and Matt Forte and Johnny Knox and Julius Peppers and Brian Ulcer and Tommie Harris, the Bears have their worries, too, like Demarks Ware, Anthony Spencer, Jay Ratliff, Mike Jenkins, Terence Newman, Tony Room, Miles Austin, Felix Jones, Jason Written and now Dees Bryant.
These 16-game marathons are just excruciating, no matter the record.
No, the Cowboys didn't beat the Redskins. Yes, they did give one away - both Dallas Cowboys jersey
raising the anxiety thermometer for Sunday. No, they were only one of three in the red zone, although one of those misses was an errant 34-yard field goal and the other red-zone was just three plays, the last of which a was penalty wiping out the winning touchdown on the last play of the game. So it wasn't like just abhorrent.
Yes, there were no takeaways by the defense. But for the third consecutive regular-season game, there were no touchdowns allowed, either. And for the third consecutive regular-season game there were no more than 250 yards allowed. And for the third consecutive game against the Redskins, just to be sure no one thinks Mike Shanahan is some offensive genius, the Washington's offense failed to score a touchdown on the Cowboys. And for the second time in the last three games against the Redskins, the Cowboys failed to score more than one touchdown and have not scored more than two in any of the past four meetings.
So as you see, in three of the last four games against the Redskins, no matter who their head coach has been or the starting quarterback or the defensive coordinator, the Cowboys have been one play away, one weird play like a fumble returned for a touchdown at the end of the half or a holding call on what could have been the game-ending winning touchdown, from losing.
And if you would like me to go back some more with these games against the Redskins, the Cowboys actually lost to them the two games before that, beat 'me by all of five the game before that and then for those with good memories lost at FedEx in '06 when Room drove the Cowboys in position for the winning field goal in a 19-19 game with mere seconds remaining, but instead there were the Redskins attempting and making the game-winning field goal with no time left on the clock after the Cowboys attempt was blocked and a facemask penalty was committed on the return to extend the game one more play. And Bill Parcels was coaching that team.
Now how yaw like 'deem trends?
Weird things just happen when these two teams get together. For like forever. Go ask the Redskins, they know, too. They haven't forgotten Thanksgiving of '74, losing a chance to clinch a playoff berth in the final 35 seconds thanks to some guy named Clint Longley. They haven't forgotten the Cowboys beating their 12-0 1991 team at RFK even after Troy Airman had been knocked out of the game in the third quarter. And for sure the 'Skins haven't forgotten becoming the only team in 1989 to lose to the 1-15 Cowboys, that taking place as late as Game 9 of the season, again at RFK.
Stuff happens, I swear, when these two get together.
"We played one game," Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips tried to emphasize the other day, "and I don't think there is any statistical analysis that you can say you're doing this bad or red zone, or you're doing this good - moving the ball - all those things. ... I just don't think you can say right now. If through five games we're not doing well in the red zone, if through five games were not doing something turnover-wise then ..."
This is what is so hard about opening games. Teams, but mostly fans, enthusiastically point toward that first game of the season, and do so for like four or five months, like as soon as the schedule comes out. And also the focus is on that first game almost as soon as training camp starts - at least the talk had been around here, the Redskins, the Redskins, and the Redskins.
And then you lose?
Oh my ... that's it. Cut Alex Barron. Cut David Buehler. Fire Jason Garrett. All after one game.
Expectations and anxiety walk hand in hand.
"The build up to that first game, there is so much work that is done, so much Chargers jersey
preparation, there is so much excitement, and when you lose that first game it's tough to deal with," says Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking, a veteran of a few season-opening losses. "It can really drag you down and it's something that we focused on. We can't allow that to happen. It was a loss that we should have won, just to be frank with you. We didn't make the plays to do it. We made some really bad mistakes, and that hurt us trying to accomplish that goal.
"But at the end of the day, it's just 1/16th of our season."
"Nobody is having any fun in this league."
True that.
Let's investigate.
In this particular NFL city, the center of nfl jersey
attention has been the quarterback who jetted off to New York on the off-day this week to hook up with his TV starlet squeeze, that and the fact he targeted one of his starting wide receivers just once in 35 passing attempts.
No not Dallas. T.O. and Jessica no longer are hot items here. Chicago, OK, and the Bears even won last Sunday.
Here are the first three paragraphs of the story in Thursday's most-respected Chicago Tribune:
Thankfully, nobody wasted any of Jay Cutler's weekly allotment of podium time Wednesday at Hales Hall asking him about his new favorite target.
And they said Cutler would ignore the tight end in Mike Martz's offense.
Seriously, if Cutler chose to jet to New York City to spend his off day with "The Hills" starlet Kristin Cavalla, question his fondness for reality-TV more than his time management. He's a young, single millionaire coming off a terrific game so this was a rendezvous relevant to TMZ more than the NFL.
I could not make this up. Somewhere Tony Room is laughing.
And that was followed with this quote from Cutler on why he would only complete one pass to Devin Hester in the opener: "If Devin would have gotten open, I would have thrown him the ball," and there was no tongue in cheek or a sense of sarcasm.
Whoop ... not exactly the Care Bears, 19-14 winners mind you in Week 1 over Detroit who arrive this weekend for Sunday's noon date with the Cowboys at Cowboys Stadium.
Then there is this: The Bears only converted one of four third-and-one or fourth-and-one plays, revisiting their shortcomings from the past two seasons when they picked up that one measly yard in those situations just 65.3 percent of the time, ranking them 18th - and by the way, just behind the 14th-ranked Cowboys (67.9 percent).
Ah, the one-game trend.
Or how 'bout in this other NFL city? One offensive lineman played through a foot injury. Two others returned after missing the entire preseason. And the quarterback was knocked down 10 times - eight by the same dude.
That would be in Indianapolis, the defending AFC champs run roughshod over by the Houston Texans and Mario Williams in the season opener.
Or how 'bout in this city: The starting QB already has gone down with a concussion and the starting center is out for the season.
That would be in Philadelphia.
And ... and... after losing the season opener, a disturbing trend is being exposed in this city, that this team under the current head coach has now started off seasons 1-3, 2-3, 2-3 and 0-1 in the past four years for a combined 5-10 record, yet another one of those disturbing one-game trends.
That would be San Diego, where the quarterback, Philip Rivers pleaded, "its one game out of 16. We can still get off to a fast start" after a series of penalties stalled drives and a lost fumble set up one of Kansas City's touchdowns as Nor Turner's squad went down 21-14 on Monday night at Arrowhead.
See what I mean?
Now not to find comfort in other people's misery, but the Cowboys are not alone heading into Week 2 of the NFL season. In fact they have the company of 15 as they face the Bears, who just happen to come waltzing into Cowboys Stadium with the league's No. 1 offense (463 total yards) and No. 2 defense (but 168 yards allowed), although, let's face it, they did play the Detroit Lions. And they have plenty of company with those 16 teams opening on the road, what with the visiting teams finishing Week 1 with a 4-12 record.
Welcome to the NFL, and no matter facetiously nicknamed the No Fun League, it really isn't since it's just no fun obviously when you lose, especially with those high expectations like a noose around the neck. And even when you win, well, the fun is fleeting since there's always the next game to worry about. Just think, while Cowboys fans are preoccupied this week with worries over Cutler and Matt Forte and Johnny Knox and Julius Peppers and Brian Ulcer and Tommie Harris, the Bears have their worries, too, like Demarks Ware, Anthony Spencer, Jay Ratliff, Mike Jenkins, Terence Newman, Tony Room, Miles Austin, Felix Jones, Jason Written and now Dees Bryant.
These 16-game marathons are just excruciating, no matter the record.
No, the Cowboys didn't beat the Redskins. Yes, they did give one away - both Dallas Cowboys jersey
raising the anxiety thermometer for Sunday. No, they were only one of three in the red zone, although one of those misses was an errant 34-yard field goal and the other red-zone was just three plays, the last of which a was penalty wiping out the winning touchdown on the last play of the game. So it wasn't like just abhorrent.
Yes, there were no takeaways by the defense. But for the third consecutive regular-season game, there were no touchdowns allowed, either. And for the third consecutive regular-season game there were no more than 250 yards allowed. And for the third consecutive game against the Redskins, just to be sure no one thinks Mike Shanahan is some offensive genius, the Washington's offense failed to score a touchdown on the Cowboys. And for the second time in the last three games against the Redskins, the Cowboys failed to score more than one touchdown and have not scored more than two in any of the past four meetings.
So as you see, in three of the last four games against the Redskins, no matter who their head coach has been or the starting quarterback or the defensive coordinator, the Cowboys have been one play away, one weird play like a fumble returned for a touchdown at the end of the half or a holding call on what could have been the game-ending winning touchdown, from losing.
And if you would like me to go back some more with these games against the Redskins, the Cowboys actually lost to them the two games before that, beat 'me by all of five the game before that and then for those with good memories lost at FedEx in '06 when Room drove the Cowboys in position for the winning field goal in a 19-19 game with mere seconds remaining, but instead there were the Redskins attempting and making the game-winning field goal with no time left on the clock after the Cowboys attempt was blocked and a facemask penalty was committed on the return to extend the game one more play. And Bill Parcels was coaching that team.
Now how yaw like 'deem trends?
Weird things just happen when these two teams get together. For like forever. Go ask the Redskins, they know, too. They haven't forgotten Thanksgiving of '74, losing a chance to clinch a playoff berth in the final 35 seconds thanks to some guy named Clint Longley. They haven't forgotten the Cowboys beating their 12-0 1991 team at RFK even after Troy Airman had been knocked out of the game in the third quarter. And for sure the 'Skins haven't forgotten becoming the only team in 1989 to lose to the 1-15 Cowboys, that taking place as late as Game 9 of the season, again at RFK.
Stuff happens, I swear, when these two get together.
"We played one game," Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips tried to emphasize the other day, "and I don't think there is any statistical analysis that you can say you're doing this bad or red zone, or you're doing this good - moving the ball - all those things. ... I just don't think you can say right now. If through five games we're not doing well in the red zone, if through five games were not doing something turnover-wise then ..."
This is what is so hard about opening games. Teams, but mostly fans, enthusiastically point toward that first game of the season, and do so for like four or five months, like as soon as the schedule comes out. And also the focus is on that first game almost as soon as training camp starts - at least the talk had been around here, the Redskins, the Redskins, and the Redskins.
And then you lose?
Oh my ... that's it. Cut Alex Barron. Cut David Buehler. Fire Jason Garrett. All after one game.
Expectations and anxiety walk hand in hand.
"The build up to that first game, there is so much work that is done, so much Chargers jersey
preparation, there is so much excitement, and when you lose that first game it's tough to deal with," says Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking, a veteran of a few season-opening losses. "It can really drag you down and it's something that we focused on. We can't allow that to happen. It was a loss that we should have won, just to be frank with you. We didn't make the plays to do it. We made some really bad mistakes, and that hurt us trying to accomplish that goal.
"But at the end of the day, it's just 1/16th of our season."
2010年9月25日星期六
Mourning continues for Broncos
One was a Mohawk-wearing, superstar-in-the-making cornerback whose New Year's Eve celebration ended tragically in his white limo, sprayed with bullets from a Denver gang member.
The other was a backup running back, playing in a charity nfl jerseys
basketball tournament, only to see an apparent heart ailment take his life on the court seven weeks later.
The third was perhaps even lesser known, a fifth-round draft pick with a young son and a wide smile, but with uncertainties inside that apparently caused him to take his own life Monday afternoon.
Four years, three Denver Broncos players, all gone much too soon.
Perhaps the one common denominator in the deaths of Daren’t Williams, Damien Nash and Kenny McKinley is that they all were viewed as good guys, in their 20s, seemingly with so much life ahead of them.
"This makes the game seem kind of small at times," said Broncos coach Josh McDaniel’s, just 11 years older than McKinley, a player whose passing prompted a heartfelt press conference where emotions spilled over.
McDaniel’s went on to describe McKinley, a member of the coach's first draft class in 2009, as a "special" person, with a great big smile, a bigger personality and a promising future on the football field.
Though McKinley was on injured reserve, which meant he couldn't play this year, questions abound as to his state of mind.
Teammates and coaches, both in Denver and South Carolina, where McKinley played in college, said they saw no signs of this impending tragedy, that McKinley was all smiles even as he cleared out much of his locker a few weeks ago.
But the Arapahoe County medical examiner late Tuesday released an autopsy report ruling McKinley's death a suicide, and reporting that there was a strong smell of marijuana in the house.
It also reported a conversation McKinley had with friends while playing dominoes a month ago. "I could just kill myself," McKinley reportedly told his friends, none of whom took him seriously.
The report further noted that McKinley was depressed over a second knee operation that sidelined him for the 2010 season, and indicated he didn't know what he'd do without football.
For families of suicide victims, the reports seem all too familiar.
Tuesday marked the sixth anniversary of when Coloradoan Ante Underberg buried his son Gibe, who like McKinley was just 23 when he took his own life. That was on Sept. 21, 2004, after several failed comebacks at the University of Colorado and a senior season spent injured.
The elder Underberg said no one knows exactly what's going on inside an injured player's mind and that injuries, operations and medications may have a cumulative effect.
"If he's on IR and sees the team going (off) together and he's not going, maybe he's questioning the fact of whether he's going to go again or not," said Underberg.
"Maybe he doesn't see any hope for himself," Underberg said of McKinley. "You say, 'At 23, how can he have that narrow vision?' He's been playing since he was young. He's invested all his life in this. Then another surgery, and it's, 'You're done.'"
McDaniel’s said the decision for McKinley to have the surgery and go on IR was reached mutually.
But despite the smiles, that doesn't mean it didn't weigh on McKinley, something his agent and the coroner's report acknowledged.
An equally unanswered question is how much this will weigh on Bills jersey
a Broncos franchise that has seen tragedy after tragedy befall its players.
Publicist Jim Spaceman put it succinctly.
"There's no good time for bad news," he said.
Another team official, not wanting to speak on the record, noted that the deaths of Williams and Nash happened early in the off-season, giving the team time to grieve.
McKinley's death comes two games in, with a giant AFC showdown with the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning looming on Sunday.
How will the team deal with it? That remains to be seen.
Some players on Wednesday didn’t want to talk about it.
Others, like linebacker Mario Hagan, opened up and said he was still hurting inside.
“He’ll definitely be on my mind, will probably be on my mind ‘til I go under,” Hagan said of McKinley.
That very well could be the case as well with the emotional McDaniel’s, which visibly lost his composure Tuesday in talking about McKinley. Will overcoming this latest Broncos' tragedy be a defining moment in his young career?
Spaceman offered no predictions.
"But his upbringing has prepared him to handle a lot of things," Spaceman said in describing a young coach mature beyond his years.
While some Bronco loyalists must be wondering what's next, Spaceman, without diminishing each loss, tried to add some perspective.
"Sometimes things just happen," Spaceman said. "When daren’t was killed, he was the first active Bronco to ever pass away. The team had gone 45 years without this ever happening. Now we've had three. It's shocking and tragic. All you can do is the best you can and grieve."
McDaniel’s said the Broncos are planning a private memorial Friday, a moment of silence before the game Sunday and indicated players will wear decals with McKinley’s No. 11 on their helmets. They also will keep his locker intact at Broncos headquarters. And team representatives would be at McKinley’s funeral Monday in Georgia.
McDaniel’s further said counselors would be available to players and staff for as long as necessary.
Judging from those who have dealt with such tragedies, it won't be easy.
Underberg still has difficulty this time of year, even if he now is a volunteer with the Second Wind Fund, a youth-suicide presentation organization that he credits for saving more than 1,000 lives.
"Surgery in itself is traumatic," Underberg said. "You have to make sure everybody rehabs and transitions away from their injury. You've got to see them make that transition. You can't just patch them up, let them go home and put a Band-Aid on it."
That's why Underberg, unlike most sports fans, finds himself reading the injury reports after each game. To him, they can be more important than the main story or stats.
He's convinced there's a correlation between concussions and depression and suicide, as well as orthopedic surgeries and depression and perhaps suicide.
He pointed to former Colorado All-American Ted Johnson. The linebacker retired from the New England Patriots after a series of concussions left him not only worrying about the early onset of dementia and Alzheimer's but struggling with depression and amphetamine addiction.
Johnson has even offered, after his death, to have Boston University researchers study his brain to see what effects concussions may have had on it.
Even lesser injuries can take their toll emotionally.
Former Broncos defensive lineman/Colorado star Alfred 49ers jersey
Williams admitted the desperation he had felt because of injury.
Williams, now a Denver broadcaster, recalled numerous panic attacks, especially while flying, after surgery ended his pro career.
"I'd flown thousands of miles," he said on Denver sports radio station 104.3 FM Tuesday. "I'd never had any issues. But because of the way my career ended, it really made for some tough times. It made for a lot of soul searching. I finally threw everything that wasn't important to me out the window and focused on my family."
Williams, of course, was once a star, with a pair of Super Bowl rings.
McKinley, though the all-time leading receiver at South Carolina, was still a relative unknown with only 10 NFL touches. Though a member of the Broncos family, he was not an active part of the team anymore.
"Plenty of guys got knocked out this weekend," Underberg said of the NFL injury report. "We know who they are on Sunday mornings. Do we follow up on Monday? We don't follow the guys unless they're heroes. How many guys in Denver even knew who Kenny McKinley was?"
Former Detroit Lions quarterback Eric Hippie certainly knows now. Hippie’s 15-year-old son Jeff took his own life in April 2000, and Eric believes both the military and NFL are starting to take a closer look at depression and its consequences.
Hippie, who is on a panel speaking in Washington, D.C., this week that included former surgeon general David Snatcher, retired Buffalo Bills safety Matt Kelso and wife of retired Hall of Farmer John Mackey, said he can understand where a person’s perspective can get skewed — no matter whether they are in the NFL or not.
“The losses start stacking up,” said Hippie, who has made it his job to help educate people about illnesses and factors that lead to suicide.
“(McKinley) might have been looking at a dream lost, lost future income, loss of structure, loss of self-esteem, loss of identity. All those things lost with a single injury.”
In the end, Hippie said NFL players may be no different than the rest of the population when it comes to mental health issues. In the U.S., Hippie said there are 34,000 suicides annually. Suicide, he added, is the second-leading cause of death for those of college age, and the third-leading cause of Saints jersey
death for those aged 15-24.
“These community forums are huge. It shows this is an issue the NFL is thinking about and maybe getting out in front of,” Hippie said.
Unfortunately, it is too late for Kenny McKinley.
The other was a backup running back, playing in a charity nfl jerseys
basketball tournament, only to see an apparent heart ailment take his life on the court seven weeks later.
The third was perhaps even lesser known, a fifth-round draft pick with a young son and a wide smile, but with uncertainties inside that apparently caused him to take his own life Monday afternoon.
Four years, three Denver Broncos players, all gone much too soon.
Perhaps the one common denominator in the deaths of Daren’t Williams, Damien Nash and Kenny McKinley is that they all were viewed as good guys, in their 20s, seemingly with so much life ahead of them.
"This makes the game seem kind of small at times," said Broncos coach Josh McDaniel’s, just 11 years older than McKinley, a player whose passing prompted a heartfelt press conference where emotions spilled over.
McDaniel’s went on to describe McKinley, a member of the coach's first draft class in 2009, as a "special" person, with a great big smile, a bigger personality and a promising future on the football field.
Though McKinley was on injured reserve, which meant he couldn't play this year, questions abound as to his state of mind.
Teammates and coaches, both in Denver and South Carolina, where McKinley played in college, said they saw no signs of this impending tragedy, that McKinley was all smiles even as he cleared out much of his locker a few weeks ago.
But the Arapahoe County medical examiner late Tuesday released an autopsy report ruling McKinley's death a suicide, and reporting that there was a strong smell of marijuana in the house.
It also reported a conversation McKinley had with friends while playing dominoes a month ago. "I could just kill myself," McKinley reportedly told his friends, none of whom took him seriously.
The report further noted that McKinley was depressed over a second knee operation that sidelined him for the 2010 season, and indicated he didn't know what he'd do without football.
For families of suicide victims, the reports seem all too familiar.
Tuesday marked the sixth anniversary of when Coloradoan Ante Underberg buried his son Gibe, who like McKinley was just 23 when he took his own life. That was on Sept. 21, 2004, after several failed comebacks at the University of Colorado and a senior season spent injured.
The elder Underberg said no one knows exactly what's going on inside an injured player's mind and that injuries, operations and medications may have a cumulative effect.
"If he's on IR and sees the team going (off) together and he's not going, maybe he's questioning the fact of whether he's going to go again or not," said Underberg.
"Maybe he doesn't see any hope for himself," Underberg said of McKinley. "You say, 'At 23, how can he have that narrow vision?' He's been playing since he was young. He's invested all his life in this. Then another surgery, and it's, 'You're done.'"
McDaniel’s said the decision for McKinley to have the surgery and go on IR was reached mutually.
But despite the smiles, that doesn't mean it didn't weigh on McKinley, something his agent and the coroner's report acknowledged.
An equally unanswered question is how much this will weigh on Bills jersey
a Broncos franchise that has seen tragedy after tragedy befall its players.
Publicist Jim Spaceman put it succinctly.
"There's no good time for bad news," he said.
Another team official, not wanting to speak on the record, noted that the deaths of Williams and Nash happened early in the off-season, giving the team time to grieve.
McKinley's death comes two games in, with a giant AFC showdown with the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning looming on Sunday.
How will the team deal with it? That remains to be seen.
Some players on Wednesday didn’t want to talk about it.
Others, like linebacker Mario Hagan, opened up and said he was still hurting inside.
“He’ll definitely be on my mind, will probably be on my mind ‘til I go under,” Hagan said of McKinley.
That very well could be the case as well with the emotional McDaniel’s, which visibly lost his composure Tuesday in talking about McKinley. Will overcoming this latest Broncos' tragedy be a defining moment in his young career?
Spaceman offered no predictions.
"But his upbringing has prepared him to handle a lot of things," Spaceman said in describing a young coach mature beyond his years.
While some Bronco loyalists must be wondering what's next, Spaceman, without diminishing each loss, tried to add some perspective.
"Sometimes things just happen," Spaceman said. "When daren’t was killed, he was the first active Bronco to ever pass away. The team had gone 45 years without this ever happening. Now we've had three. It's shocking and tragic. All you can do is the best you can and grieve."
McDaniel’s said the Broncos are planning a private memorial Friday, a moment of silence before the game Sunday and indicated players will wear decals with McKinley’s No. 11 on their helmets. They also will keep his locker intact at Broncos headquarters. And team representatives would be at McKinley’s funeral Monday in Georgia.
McDaniel’s further said counselors would be available to players and staff for as long as necessary.
Judging from those who have dealt with such tragedies, it won't be easy.
Underberg still has difficulty this time of year, even if he now is a volunteer with the Second Wind Fund, a youth-suicide presentation organization that he credits for saving more than 1,000 lives.
"Surgery in itself is traumatic," Underberg said. "You have to make sure everybody rehabs and transitions away from their injury. You've got to see them make that transition. You can't just patch them up, let them go home and put a Band-Aid on it."
That's why Underberg, unlike most sports fans, finds himself reading the injury reports after each game. To him, they can be more important than the main story or stats.
He's convinced there's a correlation between concussions and depression and suicide, as well as orthopedic surgeries and depression and perhaps suicide.
He pointed to former Colorado All-American Ted Johnson. The linebacker retired from the New England Patriots after a series of concussions left him not only worrying about the early onset of dementia and Alzheimer's but struggling with depression and amphetamine addiction.
Johnson has even offered, after his death, to have Boston University researchers study his brain to see what effects concussions may have had on it.
Even lesser injuries can take their toll emotionally.
Former Broncos defensive lineman/Colorado star Alfred 49ers jersey
Williams admitted the desperation he had felt because of injury.
Williams, now a Denver broadcaster, recalled numerous panic attacks, especially while flying, after surgery ended his pro career.
"I'd flown thousands of miles," he said on Denver sports radio station 104.3 FM Tuesday. "I'd never had any issues. But because of the way my career ended, it really made for some tough times. It made for a lot of soul searching. I finally threw everything that wasn't important to me out the window and focused on my family."
Williams, of course, was once a star, with a pair of Super Bowl rings.
McKinley, though the all-time leading receiver at South Carolina, was still a relative unknown with only 10 NFL touches. Though a member of the Broncos family, he was not an active part of the team anymore.
"Plenty of guys got knocked out this weekend," Underberg said of the NFL injury report. "We know who they are on Sunday mornings. Do we follow up on Monday? We don't follow the guys unless they're heroes. How many guys in Denver even knew who Kenny McKinley was?"
Former Detroit Lions quarterback Eric Hippie certainly knows now. Hippie’s 15-year-old son Jeff took his own life in April 2000, and Eric believes both the military and NFL are starting to take a closer look at depression and its consequences.
Hippie, who is on a panel speaking in Washington, D.C., this week that included former surgeon general David Snatcher, retired Buffalo Bills safety Matt Kelso and wife of retired Hall of Farmer John Mackey, said he can understand where a person’s perspective can get skewed — no matter whether they are in the NFL or not.
“The losses start stacking up,” said Hippie, who has made it his job to help educate people about illnesses and factors that lead to suicide.
“(McKinley) might have been looking at a dream lost, lost future income, loss of structure, loss of self-esteem, loss of identity. All those things lost with a single injury.”
In the end, Hippie said NFL players may be no different than the rest of the population when it comes to mental health issues. In the U.S., Hippie said there are 34,000 suicides annually. Suicide, he added, is the second-leading cause of death for those of college age, and the third-leading cause of Saints jersey
death for those aged 15-24.
“These community forums are huge. It shows this is an issue the NFL is thinking about and maybe getting out in front of,” Hippie said.
Unfortunately, it is too late for Kenny McKinley.
2010年9月24日星期五
24 sep 10 Bucs S Tanard Jackson suspended by NFL
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Tampa Bay’s improved defense was dealt a blow Wednesday when safety Tanard Jackson(notes) was suspended for a minimum of a year without pay for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy.
The league made the announcement, saying the fourth-year pro has been suspended indefinitely but will be eligible for reinstatement beginning Sept. 22, 2011.
“Obviously, it’s frustrating and disappointing for everybody,” general manager Mark Dominik said.
Jackson sat out the first four games of cheap nfl jerseys
the 2009 season while serving a previous suspension for violating the substance of abuse policy.
A fourth-round draft pick in 2007, the 25-year-old Jackson is the only defensive player in Bucs history to start every game in his first two seasons.
Despite the four-game ban last season, Jackson finished with five interceptions in 12 starts. He had 13 tackles in two games this seasons, helping Tampa Bay to its first 2-0 start in five years.
“Tanard is a talented young man whom we hope is able to use this year to put his troubles behind him and ultimately return a stronger man and player,” Dominik said. “It’s up to Tanard whether the team and our fans eventually realize his considerable promise.”
The suspension was revealed about two hours after Colts jersey
Jackson and his teammates left the practice field. Coach Raheem Morris was not available for comment, and Dominik said the club is prohibited from releasing specific information about players in the league’s drug program.
Jackson’s replacement at free safety likely will be fourth-year pro Sabby Piscitelli(notes), who lost the strong safety job to Sean Jones(notes) during training camp. Rookie Cody Grimm(notes) and Corey Lynch(notes), who was signed off Cincinnati’s practice squad last year, are the other safeties on the roster.
“Talking to Coach Morris, obviously we have a position open. He’s going to take the next few days to determine who’s going to be the starter going forward,” Dominik said. “We are happy we did have guys like Corey Lynch and Cody Grimm and Sabby Piscitelli, and obviously Sean Jones, who played well enough to be on this team.”
When Jackson, who has eight career interceptions, returned from last year’s suspension he talked about how difficult it was being away from the team and how much football means to him.
“I could sit here and go on forever as to how much I Cowboys jersey
learned. The main thing is that this is what I love to do, this is what I’m blessed to do,” he said in October.
“I definitely felt I let my team down,” Jackson added at the time. “I disappointed myself, but your actions affect others around you, and that’s one thing that hit home.”
2010年9月22日星期三
Special teams not so special for No. 18 Iowa
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP)—Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz had been worried about his special teams since fall camp.
Against Arizona, it didn’t take long to see why.
The Hawkeyes opened Saturday night’s 34-27 loss by allowing a quick touchdown cheap nfl jerseys
after a blocked punt deep in their own territory, then gave up another on a kickoff return in the second quarter.
No. 18 Iowa (2-1) made a valiant comeback effort against the Wildcats and were poised to take the lead in the fourth quarter after Broderick Binns’ interception return for a score. But kicker Trent Mossbrucker’s extra-point try was blocked, and Arizona responded with the winning touchdown.
The Hawkeyes fell from ninth to 18th in the polls after the loss, which can be blamed in large part on Iowa’s not-so-special teams.
Ferentz said Tuesday that the coaching staff is mulling major changes in time for Saturday’s non-conference finale against Ball State (1-2).
“Two things have to happen. Either we have to mix in some veteran guys that have done it already, and that’s one option. Or the second thing is, some other guys have step up and grow up a little bit.” Ferentz said. “The opportunity is there for guys right now, and that’s what we need. We need somebody to take a little ownership, jump in there and go.”
Iowa’s issues began in the opener, but few noticed as the Hawkeyes rolled to a 2-0 start.
Eastern Illinois surprised the Hawkeyes with a fake punt from their own 20 and rumbled 36 yards en route to their only touchdown. Iowa also struggled covering kickoffs against Iowa State, though it didn’t matter much as the Hawkeyes cruised to a 35-7 win.
But Ferentz dubbed the performance of Iowa’s coverage units Steelers jersey
against Cyclones “pathetic” and said that if it happened again in Arizona, they’d be down 28 at halftime.
Try 20.
Iowa’s Ryan Donohue, one of the nation’s top punters, never had a chance as David Roberts blew past the Hawkeyes line to block the punt and set up Arizona’s first score. Iowa later pulled within 14-7, but Travis Cobb ran 100 yards on the subsequent kickoff to give Arizona a 21-7 lead.
Iowa ranks 115th out of 120 FBS teams in allowing 30.9 yards per kickoff return, even though freshman kickoff specialist Michael Meyer has had six touchbacks in 17 tries.
“We’ve just got to either change our mindset or change some personnel, and maybe a combination of both,” Ferentz said. “We’ll look at everything this week and try to get it straightened out. I said that a week ago and it went from bad to worse, so we’ll look to change our approach.”
Iowa’s rally to tie the game—which came in part because of a fumble recovery by Shaun Prater on punt coverage—was a positive. But special teams miscues put the Hawkeyes in a hole that proved too deep to dig out of.
The Hawkeyes certainly have other issues with Big Ten play starting in two weeks, such as the somewhat spotty play of the offensive line at Arizona and depth at running back now that Jewel Hampton will likely miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.
But special teams essentially cost the Hawkeyes 15 points in Vikings jersey
a seven-point loss last week, and that’s the most glaring problem in need of a fix.
“I’m optimistic it’s going to happen. I think it will happen,” Ferentz said of improved special teams play. “Hopefully sooner than later.”
It’s back to work for the Blazers with the Vols dead ahead
After its usual off-day on Monday, the UAB football team was back to work Tuesday morning for a two-hour, full-pad practice.
The Blazers began their on-field preparations for this Saturday’s road game at Tennessee, one of two non-conference contests remaining on the schedule (the other is Oct. 23 at Mississippi State).
“It was a little sloppy today,” UAB head coach Neil Callaway said. “Every Tuesday is football jersey
going to be a hard work day. You’re always putting in the new plan for whoever you’re playing that week. We’ll go back at it tomorrow and see what we have.”
The Blazers are looking to carry some momentum from last Saturday’s win over Troy into the Tennessee game. UAB came from 23 points behind to defeat the Trojans on the final play in Birmingham.
UAB will be making its fourth trip to Knoxville, Tenn., and looking for its first win there. The Volunteers own a 3-0 lead in the all-time series, including a victory two years ago. The 2005 contest provided the closest outcome with the Blazers falling 17-10.
“(Tennessee) does a nice job running and throwing,” Callaway said. “They have a big, physical offensive line and good receivers. They’re a talented football team.”
Saturday’s kickoff is scheduled for 12:21 p.m. ET (11:21 a.m. CT) at Neyland Stadium and will be televised by the SEC Network.
Before the season Iowa fans worried about how the Hawkeyes would keep three running backs happy with carries. With the news that Jewel Hampton will be out for the rest of the season due to a knee injury, Adam Robinson is now the last man standing in the backfield. The sophomore back says he is up to San Francisco 49ers jersey
the challenge and he talks about the two freshman backs who might see playing time.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP)—Notre Dame and Navy will play in Dublin, Ireland, in 2012.
Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk says Aviva Stadium will be the site for the 86th meeting between the Fighting Irish and Midshipmen.
The $410 million stadium opened in May and has a seating capacity of 50,000.
“Obviously as an Irish-Catholic from Boston, Mass., I’m going to have a lot of requests for tickets—not airline tickets,” Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said after Tuesday’s practice in South Bend, Ind. “No, I just think it’s a great venue and I’m excited about it. That’s one of the unique things about being an Buffalo Bills jersey
independent, that you can have a game like that on the schedule. It certainly doesn’t hurt in recruiting, either.”
Navy and Notre Dame have met every season since 1927. This season they will play at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Oct. 23.
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