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The TARP Teams
4/17/2009 12:00:00 AM
Wasn't it just yesterday that no one thought anything of a pro sports venue slapping the name of a big bank or auto company over its door? Purists cringed a little, but they got used to it.
Thanks for the Memories, Brett
Mark Starr 3/6/2008 12:00:00 AM
We fans are a fickle and forgetful bunch. It was only a few years ago that many of us were pleading with Brett Favre to hang 'em up. We fervently hoped that after a pair of seasons in which he was foundering—he threw more interceptions (47) than touchdown passes (38), and his completion percentage in 2006 was the lowest of his career—he would spare us more embarrassing, over-the-hill performances that might further tarnish his illustrious career.
NFL: Rough Justice
Mark Starr 1/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
I didn't get much support when I chided the Indianapolis Colts and the Dallas Cowboys for easing up in their final games of the regular season and ceding playoff spots to division rivals. The conventional wisdom seemed to be that those teams, by dint of their superior play and records, had earned the right to do whatever they wanted. And if their coaches believed rest was the best playoff prescription, then so be it.
An NFL Treasure Trove
Mark Starr 11/8/2007 12:00:00 AM
In the familiar parlance of Super Bowl commercialism, I don't need to go to Disney World, 'cause it just came to me, delivered in a box from NFL Films. For more than 40 years now their productions have redefined the way we look at the sport of pro football (and indeed all sports), transforming the barbaric into the balletic, a kid's game into an epic tale. We have so completely embraced the form-so familiar and so imitated-that it can appear a cliché: the stentorian narrative; the Sturm und Drang; the slow-motion action; the sideline microphones that capture the feeling as much as the sound; the unfettered emotionalism that renders me teary.
The Most Ridiculous Analogy
Daniel Gross 10/25/2007 12:00:00 AM
Earlier this week, in a piece wondering whether the launch of Fox Business Channel was an indicator of a market top, I questioned one of the professed rationales for the Fox biz venture—that CNBC, which dominates the field, isn't sufficiently pro-business or bullish on the markets.
A CW LOOK AT THE NFL SEASON
He Sure Cooled Your Jets

Favre DOWN-Now the graying gunslinger is a goat in two NFL cities. After all the fuss, was it worth it?