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Today's news from Berea circled around comments made by Romeo Crennel and Phil Savage during media availability time, which Fred Greetham reported on earlier today. Other than that, there's some reaction to the passing of Bill Willis from the team and players, a couple of Cardinals previews popping up, and some miscellaneous stuff. JT has linked a couple dozen stories that have shown up since this morning on the newswire (rss). PRACTICE SQUAD TRANSACTIONS After getting RB Chris Barclay and TE Richard Angulo snagged off their practice squad over the last week, the Browns had two spots open, which they filled, oddly, with a running back and a tight end. Kory Chapman, from Jacksonville State, lands with the Browns after having bounced around the NFL since 2004, and Jonny Harline, who was on the practice squad a couple of tight ends ago, returns for an encore. Check it out - we actually have a Practice Squad / IR page where you can see who's getting the daily meal stipends associated with near-rosterliness.
Six Browns players didn't participate in practice today, as Braylon Edwards, Ethan Kelley, Orpheus Roye, Kevin Shaffer, Robaire Smith, and Eric Wright sat out. Edwards has a hamstring, and the rest all have knee problems. Antwan Peek also has a knee problem, but was able to participate in practice to a limited extent. For the Cardinals, DT Ross Kolodziej didn't participate in practice and is designated as "Out" for this weekend's game, saving us from having to hear his name mispronounced by TV announcertards on Sunday. Frankly, I don't even know where to start pronouncing that name. I get through "Kolo" alright, because it sounds like "co-lo", which is similar to "co-location", a type of web hosting. So, I'm good through the first four letters, but then it all goes south in a hurry. S Adrian Wilson is also listed as "Out". If that isn't enough, S Aaron Francisco and WR Jerheme Urban didn't participate for the Cardinals, WR Larry Fitzgerald was limited, and QB Kurt Warner was complaining about his left elbow hurting but they made him practice anyway. If you wish to briefly experience the glamorous life of a scambling independent publisher of a niche website and magazine, you can gaze your eyeballs on the original injury report, straight from the NFL and uploaded into the Muni Lot in the nearly universal document format called "PDF". Suitable for framing. Or for briefly looking at and then discarding. OUT OF BEREA The Browns have named Gary Baxter as the team's recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, given out each year to players who exemplify the "qualities of courage, compassion, commitment and community". Or, during the 1999-2000 seasons, refraining from slapping around Chris Palmer. Here's the press release from the team, which I personally, and with great care, copied-and-pasted into the Watercooler. All I have to say is "Lee Suggs in 2004? Really?". FROM THE EMAIL IN-BOX (barry@theobr.com) "Hey Barry, et al., Just wanted to say thanks for such a great site, with probably the most active board's I've seen. I think I've been a member for 3 years now, but I really, really like the News-O-Rama articles every day! Keep up the great work." - Darren Now you've encouraged me, so good luck stopping me now. Way to go. You can't ask us to change that - annoying is what we do. Actually, you should only have to log in again every couple weeks or so. A lot of websites are requiring more frequent log-ins these days for security reasons, and Scout is one of them. If it's more often than that, check your web browser settings and make sure that you're allowing "cookies" to be left after your browser session ends. Cookies are how the site remembers who you are from one time on the site to the next.
Bo knows killing stupid animals with high-velocity projectile weapons. For those tracking at home, the bear was armed with no projectile weapons of any sort, not even a bazooka, but he did have razor-sharp claws of death, which he was using to eat grubs and berries... Wow, is that Michael Wilbon, really? Sure sounds like him... As a member of the Pro Football Writers Association and a erudite composer of poorly constructed sentence fragments in the serious world of sports journalism, it's with no small sense of pride that I can announce that Erin Andrews has been named Playboy's Sexiest Sportscaster. I know every one of her colleagues is very, very proud. Jillian Barberie also placed, thanks to her thrilling expose of that "cold air coming down from Canada"... |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2007 07:50 AM CST UPCOMING EVENTS TONIGHT 10PM: Adam Caplan in the OBR Chat Room
Here's the latest from the OBR Newswire (rss), since 1999 your source for a constant stream of Browns headlines, hand-selected with tender loving care by occasionally sober OBR zealots. The news about the passing of Bill Willis came in too late for most of the local papers to react, but there are reports from the AP and a few others. I just got a press release from the team around 8:30 this morning, and have attached it below. It's a typical Wednesday morning during the season, as it's a light day on the newswire thanks to the usual Tuesday shutdown. Here's the latest, categorized and labeled for easy consumption. Bill Willis Passes
Check out this cover for the new OBR magazine, though. We actually had to drop one of those thermobaric weapons* behind Braylon on the Berea practice facility to get this picture. If you think Edwards is fast on game day, you've never seen him try to outrace a rapidly expanding 5000-degree vapor cloud explosion. We will not comment on spurious allegations made regarding our photographic exploits and the purely coincidental spontaneous combustion of 14 neighborhood homes in Berea. You folks simply shouldn't leave your toaster ovens on.
* Aka "fuel-air bomb" for those of you not in the local sports publishing industry There's been a ton of activity at the Muni Lot of late, which makes sense because it's a bunch of blogs on a Browns site, but I've been pretty amazed at the number of folks signing up for the RSS feeds there. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the Muni Lot newsfeed. BROWNS STATEMENT REGARDING THE PASSING OF HOF DEFENSIVE GUARD-LINEBACKER BILL WILLIS "Bill Willis was one of the pioneers of the game of football," said Browns Head Coach Romeo Crennel. "Everyone associated with the Cleveland Browns is saddened by his loss. His hard-nosed play on the field, coupled with the manner in which he conducted himself off it, epitomized what it is to be a Cleveland Brown. We send our thoughts, prayers and condolences to the Willis family." Willis passed away last evening at the age of 86. Willis played eight seasons for the Browns (1946-53) and was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977. Willis began his football career as an All-America tackle at Ohio State and joined the Browns in 1946. Paul Brown signed Willis as one of the first African American players to break the color barrier. Coach Brown used him on both offense and defense, however Willis excelled as a defensive middle guard. Willis was a member of all four Browns All-American Conference Championships, and played in four NFL title games with the Browns (1950-53) and was a member of the Browns 1950 Championship team. Willis is known for a touchdown saving tackle against the New York Giants that preserved the Browns' 8-3 playoff win on Dec. 17, 1950, as the Browns went on to defeat the Los Angeles Rams the following week for their first NFL Championship. Willis was an All-AAFC three times, named All-NFL from 1950-53 and participated in three NFL Pro Bowls. Willis was born on Oct. 5, 1921 in Columbus, Ohio. |
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