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May 24, 2009

KORNHEISER’S DEPARTURE WON’T FIX BROKEN NETWORK

KORNHEISER’S DEPARTURE WON’T FIX BROKEN NETWORK ITEM: Tony Kornheiser, after three seasons, out on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” Jon Gruden in. Kornheiser was never as bad as ESPN allowed him to be. No one on ESPN is. ESPN, if it has any broadcast coaches for its big-ticket telecasts, either doesn’t have good ones or ESPN’s…
Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 24, 2009

Mindful of Violence, the N.F.L. Rules Out the Wedge Formation

Mindful of Violence, the N.F.L. Rules Out the Wedge Formation Matt Bowen spent seven seasons in the N.F.L., some of the time as a wedge buster, the no-sane-person-need-apply job designed to break up one of football’s most iconic formations, the 900-pound snowplow of linemen, with their arms linked or hands joined, designed to block for…