Lori

Probably MORE than that for the trip north. Me? I'll drive in after my game Saturday, spend time with family, then head down Sunday morning to use my long-since-paid-for parking pass and ticket. Maybe this is the week to bring the TV and stay outside. If not, I'll probably end up doing the same thing as last week: keep my money in my pocket inside the stadium, and spend a good part of the game messing around on Twitter to ease my boredom. Feel the excitement.

This Rick Sanchez? http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/index.php/topic,40842.0.html The friggin' idiot who made fellow broadcast journalists (and the rest of us) cringe when he anchored the Balloon Boy fiasco? The one who, when he was doing live shots while covering Hurricane Ike, made us root for the hurricane to take him? The one who pointed out the Galapagos Islands on a map while talking about a possible tsunami headed for Hawaii, and then asked a guest how high nine meters would be "in English"? When NY Times NFL writer Judy Battista saw my tweet about his firing, she replied, "Remember him from Miami. Let me say 'finally.'" This Rick Sanchez? http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/11/rick_sanchez_twitter_breakdown.php http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/03/rick_sanchez_made_an_ass_of_hi.php This one? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/jon-stewart-slams-rick-sa_n_482199.html After that beatdown, no wonder he doesn't like Stewart. LOL.

Who knows ... maybe he's just not that interesting. Kidding aside, this came up during training camp -- heard through secondhand sources that someone gave Maiorana problems when he wanted to write a feature on Bruce DeHaven's return -- so I looked up the updated policy. (Understandably, Gailey does some things differently than Jauron and his predecessors did. Think they cleared everything up and Sal wrote his story.) And you guys are right. Just searched for his name in the transcripts over at bb.com and came up empty. Have to think there are a few quotes floating around out there, though, when guys ask him about specific players or game situations...

You mean he didn't clear waivers (because the Bills claimed him), I think ... but yes, Kemp may well have saved the Bills franchise. Team was lousy and ticket sales weren't exactly brisk before he got here. ----------------------------------------------------- Trial period, Dog. We'll see. Appreciate the kind words, though.

Untrue. From the current league media-access policy:

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Mitchell wanted to come back and play this year, which he wouldn't have been able to do here, and had a pretty good idea he wasn't going to be in their future plans. Sensible move for both sides.

Bills apparently didn't think so, since Poz and Andra Davis were the starters even before KM's injury.

Done deal. Settlement just announced by the Bills. http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-3/Bills-part-ways-with-LB-Mitchell/53dde208-18da-4dc1-abe9-1102fde64a14

The Chron's story was sort of vague, but I think the Houston idea is meant to stop cars without game tix, not walk-ins. When we were there in '06, there were THOUSANDS of people who stayed outside to tailgate -- the game was sold out, but it sure didn't look like it inside the stadium...

The link is to a fan website, and the post was written by a Jaguars season-ticket holder.

They do, but he wasn't there long enough to take that class.

...which reminds me I need to put the fall-season stuff on there at some point. Just got a note about that. Maybe that's tonight's project. Thanks for the kind words. Fun game to watch; if there's a rematch in Portville next year (Swetland wasn't sure about that when I talked to him right after the game), I'm hoping I can cover that one too. I'm old enough to remember Saturday-afternoon games up there -- I graduated in '86, same as the three old-timers on the Port A roster -- and I wish the Border Conference still existed. Old link; they must have changed it since I added it. Thanks for the heads-up.

I've spent my entire life in Pennsylvania without adopting any of its professional teams. Yes, there are guys (and gals) out there waving the pompoms -- more on the broadcast side than in print, I think you'd find -- but I never got that vibe from Wilde (who I corresponded with when Mike Sherman interviewed here).

Nice try. Wilde, anything but a fanboi, has a degree in journalism and covered the Packers for the Wisconsin State Journal for a decade before jumping to ESPN.

Nope. He left because he felt he was being asked to defend his employer and his coworkers seemingly every time he logged into the board, and it just wasn't a fun way to spend his free time. (Which, by the by, is the exact sentiment more than one WGR employee has expressed to me about the continuous Schopp-bashing -- even if they happened to agree with some of it, it got old after a while.) When I called him in late June, he hadn't visited here in a month, meaning that he didn't know I'd also gone walkabout. After I told him, out of curiosity, he clicked on the link as we talked just to see what was on the front page of TSW, but nothing caught his eye. You can tell the exact time/date of that call by clicking on his profile, because it was the last time he logged in here. (Think it was a Monday night, the same day my stepfather began his first round of chemo.) At the end of July, when we were all at SJF, JW and I sat in a room with him and watched him delete the bookmark. Can't remember the last time he so much as brought it up in conversation, other than mentioning that he'd try to make it over to our tailgate for the opener. (And as you know, I've talked/typed at him a lot this summer about things far more important than message boards -- mostly about my stepdad, and about a good friend of his who's fighting a similar battle.) So, sorry to disappoint the people who think he's still lurking here plotting his revenge, but it's not true.

Careful, guys. A friend of mine is getting roasted in another thread for suggesting essentially the same thing ...

I know you were trying to make a funny, but for the record, that's not happening. As for the error (since fixed, I see), obviously some editor in Bristol was in a rush to add the "sources told ESPN Insider Adam Schefter!!11!!ONE!" paragraph to Wawrow's story and got it wrong. Oops.

That's my default ringtone. (I use the traditional HNIC theme for the couple of Canuckistanis I know -- especially fitting because one of them works for that show -- and people from TBD get Shout!)

http://coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/11_1891_Icy_Issues:_Curse_of_Flutie_&_Peyton_Whats-it?.html http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/82494-nick-bakay-talks-about-the-flutie-curse/page__p__1312319 http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/36522-humor-curse-reverse/page__p__526516 etc.

Just a note ... when the same person writes the same thing in two different places, it's not normally considered plagiarism.

Who the $^&! is Ryan Nassib, and why should anyone other than diehard Syracuse fans care about him? THAT'S why SDS made his entirely appropriate request.

LOL. The invoice is in the mail. Webcasts: WECK - http://lightningstream.surfernetwork.com/Media/player/scripts/player.aspx?call=weck&title=Hometown%201230%20WECK WGR - http://player.streamtheworld.com/_players/entercom/player/?id=WGR 97 Rock - http://player.streamtheworld.com/_players/citadel/?sid=2936&nid=2920 Or check out yourmuze.fm, which is also great for smartphones. 97 Rock even has its own app: http://www.97rock.com/Article.asp?id=1893845&spid=21992

I'll third that sentiment. His guided tours of the Alamo (2005) and the Johnson Space Center (2006) remain some of my best memories of those road-game trips, and convinced me beyond any reasonable doubt that the guy's a friggin' genius who probably could have worked on those Apollo missions.

Don't know how many times I (and others) need to repeat this before it starts sinking in, but reporters of both genders ARE allowed postgame locker-room access for high-profile women's sports. WNBA and the women's NCAA hoops tourney, to name two.