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| Posted: 30 Nov 2007 08:04 PM CST BROWNS INJURY REPORT As I relayed to the folks in the Watercooler earlier today, the Browns have listed NT Ethan Kelley and CB Eric Wright as "out" for the upcoming game against the Cardinals. Braylon Edwards is listed as "questionable", but the expectation is that he will play against the Cards. Also listed as questionable are LB Antwan Peek and DE Orpheus Roye. Probable are Steve Heiden, Kevin Shaffer, and Robaire Smith. Wright, Edwards, Peek, Roye and Heiden had limited participation in today's practice. Shaffer and Robaire Smith participated in the full practice. The Cardinals injury report is unchanged from previous days. Aaron Francisco and Jerheme Urban (listed as doubtful) did not participate in practice, Larry Fitzgerald was limited, and Kurt Warner fully participated in practice. You can download the press release from the Muni Lot. FROM THE OBR NEWSWIRE (rss) Other than the limited injury news, there wasn't much coming out of camp today, although the tireless JT has linked about stories this afternoon and evening on the wire. There are a number of game previews and the usual analysis-type-stories linked. Of note is an article a Detroit pseudo-blog saying that the Lions should chase after Derek Anderson. Also interesting is Pro Football Weekly's attempt to seriously analyze the prattlings of weekend NFL studio show analysts, which is sort of like looking for social commentary in Barney the Dinosaur's Extra-Huggy Holiday. I remember shortly after Marion Motley died back in 1999, this web site put together a petition asking the team to honor Motley with an on-field ceremony. It was an amazing opportunity. It was back when Ku Klux Klan protesters were making in a stink in Cleveland around CBS that Sunday, for reasons I don't remember, and the Browns could have shoved that right back in their faces by honoring one of the men who broke the color barrier in professional football. As was typical of the Policy years, the organization didn't want to have anything to do with a ceremony for Motley, and turned up their nose at the suggestion and names we sent in, refusing to even respond. Well, times have changed. We got a press release from the team last night which said the following: "The Browns will honor Hall of Fame defensive end Bill Willis by wearing a sticker on the back, lower left of the helmet next to the NFL Shield for the remainder of the season. The sticker will be black and have BW in white lettering." BROWNS BACKERS DAY AT THE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME Got this earlier today from the team. I've put this on the OBR Web Calendar: Mark your calendars for Saturday, December 15th as the Browns Backers Worldwide and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton (OH) have once again teamed up to offer you "Browns Backers Day at the Pro Football Hall of Fame"! Also in the world of Browns Backers, the Westerville Browns Backers are looking to help out "Westerville Caring and Sharing" during their get-together this Sunday. Also, the Middle Tennessee Browns Backers, have added pics from the Texans game to their photo album.
Aloha? « Cleveland Sports Authority - Cleveland Sports Authority NFL Network Has Its Dates A Little Mixed Up - Awful Announcing November 30, 2007 Show - Moohead Radio OBR News-o-Rama: 11/30 AM - Slab Beefnoggin What Will the Tribe Do in Nashville? - Cleveland Sports Perspective 11/29 Podcast: Dedicated to a Rabid Jerry Jones - OBR Radio Program DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER, PART 39 Sports journalism is a business, particularly at the local level, is an old-boy network taken to the extreme. It's full of incestuous relationships where individuals take money from teams and leagues one minute, and pretend to be objective commentators, or "just fans", the next. If fans really knew what went on, I don't think they would ever take seriously what they hear on TV or read on their web browsers ever again. If they do now. The industry doesn't get a lot of respect, and there are good reasons why. It's a different niche, but we saw again today what happens when journalism isn't separated from the business interests of the subjects of coverage. CNet, which operates the video game review site "Gamespot", today fired an editor who recently gave a negative review of a heavily advertised product. In this instance, if the firing was actually due to the review, it would basically destroy whatever credibility the site ever had. There is a furor about it all over video game forums on the web. It's a big deal, at least in that particular niche. Yet, in the world of sports journalism, we happily accept teams and leagues reporting on themselves and, in fact, slowly tilting the playing field to force people to their in-house offerings. We accept team and league-owned networks, and bloggers or fansites accepting cash from the teams they cover. It's just amazing, but largely unquestioned. Except here. Ad nauseum. Stuff that might be associated with football. Or might not be. |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2007 09:56 AM CST FROM THE OBR NEWSWIRE (RSS) The latest from the much-imitated, never-duplicated OBR Newswire, maintained by the calloused hands of dedicated web surfers since 1999. Two primary themes emerged from yesterday's media availability, which amounted to Romeo Crennel's discussion with the media mob, as well as some locker room time with players. The first theme is how the Browns are adapting to increased attention from the bandwagoning national media which about three months ago was busy labeling the Browns as one of the worst teams in the league. Romeo Crennel appeared on ESPN's Mike and Mike radio program on Wednesday, and said he didn't really thrive on those sort of experiences. Coverage: ABJ Chronicle-Telegram Tribune-Chronicle Plain Dealer Canton Rep The Browns offensive line has been the engine of the team's improvement in 2007. The way that the NFL works, though, is that the vast amount of attention is lavished on the quarterback and head coach (in good times, and bad). As a result, it's good to see a lot of local coverage of what is, in my opinion, the real story of the Browns improvement in 2007. James Walker's story in the Columbus Dispatch is excellent. Coverage: Chronicle-Telegram CBus Dispatch Dispatch 2 (Joe Thomas) FWIW, we still have occasional outages of the wire when it starts getting slammed by users. I think I've figured out some technical patches around this, but need to get a bit of free time to implement them. In the interim, one way to avoid traffic jams is to subscribe to the RSS feed and get new links delivered to you throughout the day. After over a year using it, I still love Google Reader as a way to track news feeds. It's posted in the Muni Lot, one of three different Cleveland sports podcasts from yesterday captured in the OBR's hidden dark underbelly. The Muni Lot is happy to announce the addition of our third podcast... You can now subscribe to Moohead Radio via the Lot. Moohead puts on a very slick web radio broadcast each day, which you can catch live from 5-6PM at Moohead Radio.
Sitting out yesterday's practice: Braylon Edwards (hamstring), Ethan Kelley, Orpheus Roye, and Eric Wright (knees). Participating in a limited fashion: Antwan Peek, Kevin Shaffer and Robaire Smith... The Cardinals injury report was unchanged from Wednesday afternoon... 2005 draft pick DeMario Minter has been added to the Arizona Cardinals practice squad... The original injury report from the NFL has been uploaded to the Muni Lot's download area... DB coach Mel Tucker's name is getting dropped as a potential candidate for the Washington State head coaching job...
11/29 Podcast: Dedicated to a Rabid Jerry Jones - OBR Radio The latest scrap between bloggers and mainstream media is taking place down in Tampa Bay... ESPN is busy hiding more stuff (scramble, scramble)... Some consider the poor screening of questions during the CNN/YouTube debate to be an indictment of new media... I'm a gullible moron, but I get a kick out of all the marketing effort going into Cloverfield. After all this, the monster better have sharp claws, a grumpy demeanor, and be scarier than the bear that Bo Jackson killed with a high-velocity projectile weapon... Do you enjoy not watching the Big 10 Network and NFL Network? Then you're going to love not watching the SEC Network! |
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