Second Thoughts: Cowboy CB wants Halle rustled up
Compiled by Scott Loftis
Tony Romo was the undrafted quarterback and cornerback Terence Newman was the firstround draft pick when they were rookies together four years ago.
They even roomed together at one point. But things have changed a bit now that Romo is the Dallas Cowboys’ starting quarterback and has already been a Pro Bowler without even playing a full season.
“He doesn’t hang out with me as much because he’s big time,” Newman jokingly told The Associated Press. “I let him live with me for a while. Now he don’t call me back. Big time, Carrie Underwood and all those girls.”
Newman said there’s one way for Romo to make up the snubs.
“Hook me up with Halle Barry or something like that, and we’ll be all good,” Newman said. “I’ll call it even.” Michigan madness
More than 100 Michigan football fanatics recently paid $ 2, 500 apiece for a two-day Wolverines fantasy camp — and one called it a bargain.
“I would have paid more if I had to,” Tom Wolfe, a Detroitarea doctor, told the Detroit News. “There is nothing like getting yelled at by a Michigan football coach.” Minnesota mess
Tom Powers of the St. Paul (Minn. ) Pioneer Press tried to calm the masses last week when Minnesota Timberwolves General Manager Kevin McHale, not known for his shrewd dealings, traded franchise forward Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics for five players and two draft picks.
“Settle down,” Powers wrote. “Put away the torches and pitchforks. The sun will come up tomorrow.
“ Unless, of course, Kevin McHale is somehow put in charge of the solar system.” Barry at the bat
Final stanza from Orlando (Fla. ) Sentinel poet Mike Bianchi:
“... Oh, somewhere in this favored land, the sun is shining bright,
“ The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light.
“ And somewhere kids are laughing, at a playful prank,
“ But there is no joy in Budville — BALCO Barry has passed Hank.” One is enough
Dallas Cowboys radio broadcaster Babe Laufenberg, ex-NFL quarterback and lifelong Joe Namath fanatic, was asked if he had any difficulty talking his wife into naming their oldest son Joe Willie.
“Not hard at all,” Laufenberg told The Dallas Morning News. “It was actually a prenuptial agreement. No Joe Willie, no marriage.
“ I wanted to name the second one Johnny U. She put her foot down. He is Luke.” Quick quotes CBS’s Craig Ferguson, on “Intimately Beckham,” the new perfume from Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, and David Beckham: “Apparently, it’s a delicate combination of anorexic breath and athlete’s foot.” John Ryan of the San Jose (Calif. ) Mercury News, on the downside of the Miami Hurricanes removing players’ names from their football jerseys this season: “Police won’t have such an easy time tracking down suspects.” Comedian Argus Hamilton: “If the Cincinnati Bengals don’t clean up their act, their first downs may be measured by real chain gangs.” Mike Bianchi of the Orlando (Fla. ) Sentinel, on the news that suspended Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones is about to take up pro wrestling: “I’ve got the perfect nickname for him: The Masked Moron.” QUOTE OF THE DAY “We didn’t mean to be offensive to the Indian people, but I just can’t stand to see it go. I’m an
Indian until I die.” — Arkansas State safety Tyrell Johnson on the school changing mascots
Tony Romo was the undrafted quarterback and cornerback Terence Newman was the firstround draft pick when they were rookies together four years ago.
They even roomed together at one point. But things have changed a bit now that Romo is the Dallas Cowboys’ starting quarterback and has already been a Pro Bowler without even playing a full season.
“He doesn’t hang out with me as much because he’s big time,” Newman jokingly told The Associated Press. “I let him live with me for a while. Now he don’t call me back. Big time, Carrie Underwood and all those girls.”
Newman said there’s one way for Romo to make up the snubs.
“Hook me up with Halle Barry or something like that, and we’ll be all good,” Newman said. “I’ll call it even.” Michigan madness
More than 100 Michigan football fanatics recently paid $ 2, 500 apiece for a two-day Wolverines fantasy camp — and one called it a bargain.
“I would have paid more if I had to,” Tom Wolfe, a Detroitarea doctor, told the Detroit News. “There is nothing like getting yelled at by a Michigan football coach.” Minnesota mess
Tom Powers of the St. Paul (Minn. ) Pioneer Press tried to calm the masses last week when Minnesota Timberwolves General Manager Kevin McHale, not known for his shrewd dealings, traded franchise forward Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics for five players and two draft picks.
“Settle down,” Powers wrote. “Put away the torches and pitchforks. The sun will come up tomorrow.
“ Unless, of course, Kevin McHale is somehow put in charge of the solar system.” Barry at the bat
Final stanza from Orlando (Fla. ) Sentinel poet Mike Bianchi:
“... Oh, somewhere in this favored land, the sun is shining bright,
“ The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light.
“ And somewhere kids are laughing, at a playful prank,
“ But there is no joy in Budville — BALCO Barry has passed Hank.” One is enough
Dallas Cowboys radio broadcaster Babe Laufenberg, ex-NFL quarterback and lifelong Joe Namath fanatic, was asked if he had any difficulty talking his wife into naming their oldest son Joe Willie.
“Not hard at all,” Laufenberg told The Dallas Morning News. “It was actually a prenuptial agreement. No Joe Willie, no marriage.
“ I wanted to name the second one Johnny U. She put her foot down. He is Luke.” Quick quotes CBS’s Craig Ferguson, on “Intimately Beckham,” the new perfume from Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, and David Beckham: “Apparently, it’s a delicate combination of anorexic breath and athlete’s foot.” John Ryan of the San Jose (Calif. ) Mercury News, on the downside of the Miami Hurricanes removing players’ names from their football jerseys this season: “Police won’t have such an easy time tracking down suspects.” Comedian Argus Hamilton: “If the Cincinnati Bengals don’t clean up their act, their first downs may be measured by real chain gangs.” Mike Bianchi of the Orlando (Fla. ) Sentinel, on the news that suspended Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones is about to take up pro wrestling: “I’ve got the perfect nickname for him: The Masked Moron.” QUOTE OF THE DAY “We didn’t mean to be offensive to the Indian people, but I just can’t stand to see it go. I’m an
Indian until I die.” — Arkansas State safety Tyrell Johnson on the school changing mascots
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