Archives for June 19, 2011

‘”It’s not that I feel sorry for them or anything like that,” McKelvin said of the Renaissance students. “I look up to them; I really do. They are going through a hard time right now and the motivation that it takes to come in and recover from that and then go on to be successful in life. I feel like if I came out here and reached out to them then I could just show them that it’s not over, they can still be somebody.”‘

‘Sorry about the gloom, but the Bills are vulnerable. The best thing for Buffalo fans would be if one of those five other cities moved to L.A. soon, while Wilson was still alive. Even then, the specter of a second L.A. team will be very real, especially if the first team does well. It’s hard to believe the NFL can’t thrive in a market that large.’

‘The Pro Bowl is played in late January or early February. Why should anyone be paid a bribe to escape a portion of the winter in one of the most pleasant locations on this earth? Abercrombie pointed out that now that gay marriage has been legalized by the Hawaiian legislature, the number of football fans lost as visitors would be equaled if not surpassed by same-sex couples arriving to be married as well as their families and friends happily showing up to fete them.’