LITTLE ROCK — Can’t win,
but Peyton
still hunting
Peyton Manning is taking out his frustrations with a killing spree.
To get over last week’s season-ending loss to Baltimore, Manning hooked up with an old buddy from Tennessee, Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, and the two have been crisscrossing the country on a hunting trip.
“He told me he killed, in one day, a duck in Colorado and a deer in Mississippi,” Manning’s dad, Archie, told The Associated Press.
Peyton Manning, who signed with Denver last offseason after being sidelined for a year by neck problems, led the Broncos to a 13-3 record and the top seed in the playoffs.
Anything for Peyton to take his mind off Denver’s 38-35 loss to Baltimore last Saturday.
“He’s trying to get it out of his system,” said Archie Manning, who played quarterback for his hometown New Orleans Saints in 1971-1982. “I don’t know when that happens or how. But when he reflects on it, he’s already said it, it was really a special year.” It’s not turning out to be a special one, though, for any animals hoping to avoid his wrath.
Imaginary clues
CBS’ David Letterman chimes in on the imaginary girlfriend hoax involving Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o. Among Letterman’s top 10 signs you have an imaginary girlfriend:
“ ‘Photo’ of girlfriend looks suspiciously like Sun-Maid raisin lady.”
“Have a patent pending for a machine that gives you a hickey.” “Your imaginary friend is dating her sister.” “Said she’s too shy to meet your friends, your family and you.”
Pucker up
Sam Cardhidi of The Philadelphia Inquirer said NHL fans didn’t do a good job of making the league pay after the “Twitterverse was so full of venom, frustration and threats during the NHL’s 113-day lockout.” “The fans planned to revolt, to stay away, to not buy any NHL merchandise, so help me God,” Cardhidi wrote.
“And then camps opened and it took about nanosecond for all to be forgiven. Record crowds were reported at many NHL facilities, including the [Philadelphia] Flyers’ in Voorhees, N.J.
“And we’re talkin’ about ‘practice.’
“So it turns out the NHL knew what it was doing when it waited out union boss Donald Fehr and squeezed out as many concessions as it could, all along insisting the fans would be back.”
Sprinter’s speed
The former chief of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says it rejected a donation in 2004 from representatives of Lance Armstrong, and apparently set an ethics time trial record in the process.
The offer in the range of $200,000 to $250,000 was made to then-USADA general counsel Travis Tygart, whom former USADA Chief Executive Officer Terry Madden said then came to his office.
“Then, 10 seconds later, because of our ethics, I told Travis to turn it down,” Madden said.
Quote of the day
“We’ve waited so long just to be relevant. But we still have to be hungry.”
Mississippi forward Murphy Holloway, after the Rebels beat Arkansas 76-64 Saturday to tie with Florida for the SEC lead
Sports, Pages 24 on 01/20/2013