Jim Buzinski

Two weeks to go and we already have our first Super Bowl subplot — Tom Brady’s right foot. A photo here and video here taken the day after the AFC Championship Game clearly show the New England Patriots quarterback with his right foot in a protective boot; in the video he appears to be limping. […]

Patriots and Giants to play it again How Cyd saw the conference championshipsEmail Cyd 18 down, 1 to go One of the things I have been loving about this season is hearing all these people pick the Patriots to lose. To the Colts, to the Cowboys, to the Giants, to the Jaguars, to the Chargers. […]

Pretty clever. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLMHMhkdy2Q] Pretty clever. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLMHMhkdy2Q]

Rebel hoofprints through the rodeo arenas By Patricia Nell WarrenSpecial to Outsports.com As spring comes on, basketball people start thinking March Madness. Baseball people start thinking training camp. But rodeo people start thinking new belt-buckle trophies. The International Gay Rodeo Association season starts in January and goes through 22 rodeos in a dozen states, winding […]

If the San Diego Chargers are smart, they will invite Rachelle Washington from Florida to be on their sidelines in the AFC title game against the New England Patriots. It would mean Patriots receiver Randy Moss would not be allowed on the field. A temporary restraining order has been issued against Moss in Florida, preventing […]

This photo of two Louisville Cardinal basketball players celebrating during a Jan. 6 win over archrival Kentucky has caused a stir for the paper that published it. The photo by Sam Upshaw Jr. showed Jerry Smith hugging Juan Palacios after a big play in the first half. Many readers thought the two players were kissing, […]

Jack Mackenroth excels in the pool and on reality TV By Ross FormanFor Outsports.com It was his mom, Bonnie, who got him into swimming.She didn’t know how to swim and was paranoid that Jack Mackenroth and his younger siblings – brother Adam and sister Sarah – would drown, but she got him started at age […]

There was a hot moment late in Saturday’s Green Bay-Seattle NFL playoff game, won easily by the Packers 42-20. As Fox came back from commercial they showed a quick scene of Packers defensive back Atari Bigby going up to the stands to greet a totally buff fan (the guy was built!) wearing green face paint. […]

Australian Open kicks off potentially historic 2008 By Wyman MeersOutsports.com In a world saturated by pop singers’ breakdowns and politicians’ pasts, a communal cliché tells us that there is “no such thing as bad publicity” and “any press is good press.” Yet, somehow, this flawed philosophy doesn’t translate to the world of sports. Although many […]

This week’s Sports Illustrated ran a list of the more “memorable moments” in the career of NFL defensive lineman Warren Sapp, who announced his retirement. There was this gem from Dec. 23, 2006 (first reported by Phil Barber of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat): Sapp throws a sideline tantrum because the [Oakland Raiders’] ugly play. “It […]

Cyd, Jim Allen and myself have always had a soft spot for former San Diego, Kansas City, Cleveland and Washington coach Marty Schottenheimer. This goes back to the days the three of us met in the mid-‘90s and started watching the NFL together while Marty was riding high (at least in the regular season) as […]

Jenny Fulle: Pioneer blazed a trail in Little League By Kaki Flynn For Outsports.com I love this story, because it is, at its heart, about kid courage. The kind where a kid finds herself surrounded by adults that keep telling her no, no, no, and she just keeps pounding patiently on doors until finally she […]

I had the Weather Channel on for a minute and caught this weekend’s forecast for the NFL playoff games from a weather person: “On up into Indianapolis, we got the Colts and the Chargers playing and it looks like we could have some precipitation in the form of snow showers.” The Colts play in a […]

LSU beat The [Lame] Ohio State University, 38-24, to win a crystal football trophy and the right to claim they won the Bowl Championship Series. Whoopee! Fans of the Tigers can brag that they’re No. 1, but many college football fans elsewhere will disagree. In this weird college football season there was no standout team […]

Eli looks sharp, Young does not. Voter who didn't vote for Brady should be disbarred How Cyd saw the weekE-mail Cyd I sincerely hope the Associate Press takes the League MVP voting rights away from the lone person who voted for Brett Favre over Tom Brady as the 2007 MVP. A legitimate argument could have […]

Some basic deficiencies in simple math cost the Pittsburgh Steelers big time in their 31-29 playoff loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. That and a lack of guts late. The math issue came with 10:25 to go and the Steelers trailing 28-23 after scoring a touchdown. Going for two points would bring the Steelers to within […]

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga9hZCz1MnQ] From Daily Variety: BEIJING — China state broadcaster CCTV and media watchdogs are reeling from an Internet clip of the country’s top TV sports anchor being lambasted by his wife and accused of having an affair at a high-profile Olympics press conference. Speaking in a controlled voice, Hu Ziwei, wife of CCTV 5 sports […]

I never would have thought that I would spend the early part of New Year’s Day watching a hockey game instead of college football. But that’s how riveting the Winter Classic was in Buffalo, where the Sabres hosted the Pittsburgh Penguins outdoors before 73,000 in the snow and cold. The Penguins won, 2-1, in an […]