LITTLE ROCK — Dorsett: Dallas QB overrated
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones might be on Tony Romo's side after the quarterback had three passes intercepted in a 33-31 loss to the New York Giants. But former Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett isn't.
"I don't know why on God's Earth Tony Romo has been anointed a superstar in the National Football League," he told Fox Sports Radio.
"... He's a good player who's still learning how to play in the NFL, and I think the media has given him too much credit for doing nothing. He hasn't done anything really in the NFLto deserve all the recognition and visibility he's gotten so far."T.O.'s career plan
Terrell Owens has a career plan after his football days are over.
To the surprise of no one who has even casually followed his NFL career, Owens says he wants to be an actor.
"I'm definitely by far a better football player than an actor," Owens said in a Wednesday conference call with New Orleans reporters. "That's something I want to get into after football and I jump on it and talked to a lot of people in production with my show. Practice makes perfect and once after the season is over I'm going to take some classes and after I'm done, I'm probably going to try to link up with Dwayne Johnson, "The Rock", and Chris Rock and some other guys, Morris Chestnut, I'm good friends with Jamie Foxx, and see where it goes." Big glove
The best glove in PNC Park in Pittsburgh didn't belong to one of the Dodgers or Pirates players, but fan Brian Cardis.
While most fans go a lifetime without catching a foul ball, Cardis caught two in the upper deck in a span of four pitches with the Dodgers' James Loney batting in the ninth inning Sunday.
Both plays were nearly the same - high popups that floated over the first deck, carried three rows deep into the club-level seats behind third base in the second deck and directly into Cardis' glove.
At the same time the 34-year old Cardis was grabbing the second foul ball, he was using his cell phone to send a photo of the first foul ball to his parents.
"I caught it with the cell phone in my hand," said Cardis, from Monongahela, Pa.
Remarkably, it was the second time in four seasons that Cardis - a season ticket holder since 1999 - caught a foul ball during the Pirates' final Sunday home game of the season. He caught one in 2006, one pitch before the Pirates' Freddy Sanchez clinched the NL batting title.
Cardis wouldn't mind getting another foul ball this season.
"I work right across town, across the [Allegheny] river, so we're going to come to [today's] game, me and my co-workers," Cardis said. "I'd like to get 'em autographed."
Did he just say that?
Binghamton University basketball coach Kevin Broadus to the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press & Sun-Bulletin, after kicking five players off the team Friday, one day after star player Emanuel "Tiki" Mayben got the boot for getting charged with cocaine distribution: "They are not toeing the line."
Al Sharpton in a statement to TMZ on Plaxico Burress' two-year prison sentence for accidentally shooting himself at a nightclub with an unregistered gun: "I think it is an unusually harsh sentence for someone who was his own victim."Quote of the day
"We not only got the
monkey off our back,
we got King Kong off our back." Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford on his team breaking a 19-game losing streak
Sports, Pages 14 on 09/28/2009