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Points to ponder With stories like these, camps can't open soon enoughPosted: Wednesday July 02, 2003 3:21 PM
I hope everyone is enjoying their summertime reading -- NFL players arrested for drugs, drinking and driving, assault with a Hummer ... yep, it's the offseason. While fans eagerly await July 18, the opening of training camps cannot come quickly enough. After only a few weeks of jurisprudence, we need to read about quarterback controversies and contract holdouts. Still, there are a few things to ponder before the pounding of pads:
Cryin' BryanBryan Cox has long been noted for his propensity to speak whatever is on his mind. Athletes with big opinions and even bigger mouths are nothing new, but Cox is working OT to position himself as the poster child of Foot-in-Mouth disease. Appearing on FOX's Best Damn Sports Show Period, Cox took Atlanta LB Keith Brooking to the woodshed. "Sucks," is how Cox described the two-time Pro Bowler, adding that Brooking was the latest great white hype. The last time a team got its money's worth from Cryin' Bryan was 1998, when the Jets milked 16 games from his decrepit frame. Cox played 12 NFL seasons, but completed a full 16-game schedule only six times. In fact, of the past 64 regular-season games, he's played in only 41. The Saints got a whopping three games out of him last year. Sure, Cox had a remarkable year in 1992 with 14 sacks. And it took him almost three more years to reach that total, posting five, three and 7 1/2 between 1993-95. From 1999-2002, he had six -- and those came in one year. It is obvious Cox is now trying to make a name for himself in TV land. And who wouldn't have expected something preposterous from FOX? After all, the network merely takes blowhard to a new level. But to rip Brooking, who finished second in the NFL in tackles last season? Here's some hype for Cox: Don't believe yours, pal.
Tomb RaiderAl Davis says he was duped into returning the Raiders to Oakland after a brief fling with Los Angeles. Imagine how the folks in Oakland felt when the franchise packed up for L.A. after a much longer relationship, Al. No, the Raiders weren't going to Baltimore. Davis wants us to believe that had he been given better info on the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum ticket sales that he would have moved east. Instead, he was promised sellouts to sell out and come home to the Bay Area. Ever heard of what's good for the goose, Al? "They had conned me," Davis told jurors. "I saw the franchise go up in smoke." Sorry, Al, three consecutive playoff seasons isn't exactly "up in smoke." And the last time I checked, the stands were still crowded with rabid Raider Nation fanatics.
Shot in the darkCowboys defensive back Keith Davis is one lucky hombre. Not only is it OK for him to go to a strip club, his fiancée goes with him! Davis was shot early Sunday a.m. in the parking lot of the Dallas Gentlemen's Club. His fiancée says it was a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. According to The Associated Press, Amber Davis (no relation, yet) contends Keith was an innocent victim of an altercation that started inside the club and moved outside as they drove up to the club to pick up "a friend." Amber said she was walking to her car when a vehicle drove up and a man reached out of the car and tried to grab her, putting a gun to her head. Police were told that Keith Davis began to fight with four people inside the car. According to a police report, club security guard Jacquois Thompson was pulling Davis from the car when four shots rang out. Keith Davis was shot in the right hip and left hand, while Thompson was shot in the left hip and right arm. A few questions: 1) How do the Davises know the altercation started inside and moved outside as they were driving up? 2) If there was an altercation outside, why did they get out of the car? 3) Since Amber Davis obviously got out of the car, she tempted fate twice -- once to walk by the altercation to get into the strip club and a second time to walk by the altercation after getting up the friend. 4) Is the friend's name Michael Irvin? B. Duane Cross is a senior producer for SI.com.
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