Quote of the Week I

	Brady Quinn reportedly got off to a slow start in his first minicamp practice with the Browns. Tom Cammett/WireImage.com
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"Clemens is going back to the Yankees? I thought he retired from the Yankees and they gave him that big ceremony. Remember they gave him that orange Hummer? Now he's back?''
-- Trent Green, when I broke the news to him Sunday afternoon that Roger Clemens was returning to the American League East to torment me for the next five months. Or longer.

Quote of the Week II

"[Brady] Quinn threw consecutive balls into a brisk wind that could be described charitably as wounded ducks. Each ball looked to hit a brick wall in midair and plummet, one far short of the intended and uncovered receiver. Quinn compensated on the next pass and overthrew a receiver.''
-- Cleveland Plain Dealer veteran Browns beat writer Tony Grossi, observing Brady Quinn's first mini-camp practice Friday in Berea, Ohio.

Quote of the Week III

"For some reason, I was labeled fat, lazy, a pot smoker, or whatever else was said.''
-- Mike Williams

I can't speak about the pot-smoking, Mike. But I'll tell you exactly why you were labeled the other things: because they're true. Let's not try to recreate history now. Be a man and take the blame for personally screwing up your NFL career and giving a Randy Moss-like effort to the Lions for the past two years.

Quote of the Week IV

"I think a lot of these guys were probably on the dinner circuit. They haven't been working out as much. When we come out here to practice, there's a big difference. All of a sudden the pressure is on. It's always a little bit of a shock to them. That's probably good, though. They probably need a wakeup call to what this will be all about.''
-- Washington coach Joe Gibbs, after watching his rookies go through their first mini-camp practice. It's likely that 31 other coaches, plus about 800 rookie draftees and free-agents around the league, know exactly what he's talking about.

Quote of the Week V

"He can hit you and hurt your whole family. Interception for a touchdown or put a guy in the hospital? That's a tough decision for LaRon.''
-- Hahnville (La.) High coach Lou Valdin, on his former defensive star LaRon Landry, the first-round pick of the Redskins, in Howard Bryant's excellent piece on Landry in Sunday's Washington Post.

Factoid That May Interest Only Me

A rookie free-agent named Xzavie Jackson is in camp with the Bengals, trying to make the team as a reserve defensive lineman. That's notable because there never has been a player in the history of American professional sports whose first or last name began with the letters "xz.''

Aggravating/Enjoyable Travel Note of the Week

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, released from a hospital after an 18-day stay from a serious car accident in which he was not wearing a seat belt while his state-trooper driver was speeding at 91 mph, said this upon his release: "I also understand that I set a very poor example for a lot of young people -- a lot of people in general -- and I certainly hope the state will forgive me. And I'll work very hard to try to set the right kind of example to make a difference in people's lives as we go forward.''

A Newark Star-Ledger reporter who trailed the governor's six-vehicle convoy from the hospital to the governor's residence in Princeton, about an hour's drive, said the convoy's speed "crept up near 70'' on the freeway. That is above the speed limit of 65.

Maybe it's me, but I'd think the troopers in my adopted state would not inch one mph over the speed limit with the governor aboard, unless there's some sort of emergency.

Stat of the Week

When Warren Sapp stepped on the scale in Oakland recently, the Raiders were stunned. The needle stopped at 285.