LITTLE ROCK — One place perfect fit for Timmy
Florida would like Tim Tebow returned if New York is through with him.
As Mike Bianchi of The Orlando Sentinel points out, the two are made for each other.
“When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose,” Bianchi wrote. “Do yourself a favor, Jacksonville Jaguars. Bring Tim Tebow back home where he belongs.
“Make yourself instantly interesting. Make yourself immediately relevant. Throw your downtrodden fans a bone. Give your economically depressed city something to get excited about it.
Open up your welcoming arms, embrace the hometown hero, give Jacksonville’s most famous and favorite son the chance no other NFL team is willing to give him.
“That famous NFL analyst Robert Frost said it best: ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.’
“Time for Timmy to come home where he is loved and appreciated. Time for the Jaguars to take him in.
“It is apparent now - in the wake of the despicable way the New York Jets have treated one of the classiest athletes in the history of sports - that nobody believes Tebow can be a legitimate NFL quarterback. And, likewise, nobody believes the Jaguars can be a legitimate NFL franchise.
“The Jags and Tebow are two lost souls in desperate need of finding one another.”
Send in the clowns
From Greg Cote of The Miami Herald: “The NHL lockout reached Day 106 with both sides apparently prepared to drive over the cliff together. They’ll all be driving those little clown cars like the Shriners ride in circles in parades.”
Permission granted
Well, you never know until you ask. Twice.
A lawyer from Birmingham, Ala., asked for and has been granted a delay in a trial originally scheduled for Jan. 7 so he can attend the BCS National Championship Game between Alabama and Notre Dame in Miami.
Kent Faulk of The Birmingham News reports that defense attorney Marcus Jones III had his original request denied by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Scott Vowell shortly after Alabama wrapped up a spot in the national title game.
The motion noted that Jones is a self-described “fanatic” when it comes to Crimson Tide football and that he has been attending Alabama games since the 1960s.
He already has tickets for the title game, and he told the judge he waited to ask for a continuance because of “superstition” and the uncertainty of how the season would play out.
Jones also noted that the prosecutor doesn’t have a problem with the request.
Vowell denied the original motion without explanation Dec. 17, but Jones didn’t give up. He approached the judge again this week with another plea to delay the trial, and this time the judge allowed it.
Vowell said Friday in an e-mail to The Birmingham News that he would grant the delay, citing instances where he and other judges had postponed trials or hearings for fans/lawyers when Alabama played for the national championship in 2010 and Auburn played for the national title in 2011. The judge also explained that he originally denied the request because he thought the case would be settled quicker if he kept it on the docket for Jan. 7.
“While I remain an Auburn fan, even after this dismal season, I hate to see an Alabama man cry,” Vowell said. “I have therefore reluctantly agreed to grant the lawyers a short continuance.”
Quote of the day
“The young man from Oregon was very good; this young man is every bit as good.” Arkansas State cornerbacks coach David Gunn on Kent State’s Dri Archer
Sports, Pages 14 on 12/31/2012