It was the sunnier of the two scheduled practice days this bye week. The fair October day was indeed a masterwork of comfortable weather.Still, I was the only reporter along the sideline.“The few, the committed,” Mike Tomlin remarked as he walked toward me.“Nice day to watch some ball,” ...
From the notebook of a sportswriter whoĢƵ ready for a break after one of the more newsworthy and, frankly, exciting 2-4 starts to a season in memory:n So, they beat the Chargers with a third-string quarterback making his first start and kept alive flickering hopes of a revival without Ben ...
From the notebook of a sportswriter who wonders how a week of Duck Mania would’ve gone had the ball only bounced the right way:n Or just continued to bounce along at its trajectory. But, as Devlin Hodges told me when I asked why he couldn’t jump on that loose ball, “ItĢƵ a football.”n ...