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Is it wrong of me to say five years ago I wasn’t watching and had no interest in Kobe Bryant scoring 81 points against Toronto?

Last Add Kobe: When he was asked about Carmelo Anthony’s situation and defending Anthony’s desire to leave Denver for a winner…I thought I heard him say: “When I wanted to leave here, it was because I wanted to win. Until they invested the money to win, I wanted to leave. They were surrounding me with guys like Smush Parker.”

Smush Parker? Poor Smush.

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Can’t go into too many details but Erick Escamilla’s return to the sidelines at The Swamp is not looking good…as of the moment.

Got two Chalk Talks in the bank. One from Arroyo assistant Kenny Andrew and another from the new OC at Pasadena; the venerable Mike McKay.

Who does La Canada, now two years removed from the Rocky Moore Era, have slated to play quarterback?

“As far as quarterback goes it looks like two sophomores,” says LC HC Dan Yoder. “Matt Jones (who filled in at the Arroyo game last year) and Grant Owen, but you never know.”

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Sports talk on the radio died a long time ago, recently though I’ve been brought back by ESPN’s Colin Cowherd. The guy spends 90% of his time talking about sports. He also comes at different angles to make you think. He deserves all of the success he has achieved, he is fantastic.

However…

He’s sort of gone Tom Jackson on us this week. Jackson, the overly-sensitive-high protector of Donovan McNabb-long time-ESPN football analyst, who put his foot in his mouth last weekend when he said he picked New England to beat New York to motivate the Jets.

Cowherd has been picking against Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers all along, and has ended up looking bad. Now the Chicago Bears are the worst team since the Super Bowl 14 Rams with a chance to win it all.

So when the Bears beat the Packers, then the Packers weren’t very good. When the Packers beat the Bears, then the Bears weren’t very good.

I can appreciate slithering on and off bandwagons (it’s a chief delight of writing sports), and practing a little CYA…but I would expect Cowherd, with his skills, to be better at it and Tom Jackson to be a little less obvious…

This would be like me walking up to Ryan Maddox after a football game and saying: “I picked San Dimas to beat you guys because I was trying to motivate you.”

…Now I that I think of it…I believe Villathedevil has done stuff like this.

Final Note Cowherd: Hombre, if you are going to talk about former Los Angeles Rams HC Ray Malavasi falling asleep during a radio interview, you have to get right who the announcer was interviewing him. It wasn’t Jim Healy, it was Robert W. Morgan. Healy is the one who made the tape famous by playing it over and over again on his show.

Last Add Healy: If you never heard Healy, all I can tell you is that sports talk on radio now is largely of the horseshoe variety…And I’m not making it up paly…

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Did you see Mayfair quarterback Evan Hunko’s highlight video?

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South Hills is no longer playing Baldwin Park in Week One, anyone interested give Steve Bogan a call.

“I miss not being in the valley,” says Bogan. “We are located in the valley but will only play 3 to 4 games a year in the valley. Bottom line; we feel a little disconnected but the game is still fun.”

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Come on Olympic League…make a pitch for La Salle…

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Stay thirsty my friends…

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MID VALLEY DRAFT GM LIST

Detroit Lions—Duane “Bad News” Barker

Jacksonville Jaguars—Big Tony Solorzano

Dallas Cowboys— Matt Schuler

Minnesota Vikings— Josh Lowden

Pittsburgh Steelers— Cosmo

St. Louis Rams—Joe T.

Washington Redskins— Tim Peterson

Cincinnati Bengals—Andy Villanueva

Cleveland Browns—Blue State

San Francisco 49ers—Sunshine Saile Ramirez

Tennessee Titans—Omelette

San Diego Chargers—Bonita Alum

Green Bay Packers—The Knight

Buffalo Bills—Jehu

Denver Broncos—Big George Hernandez

Atlanta Falcons— Corn Dawg

Note: Last season we had 17, which was a good number…Sure we’d like to fill all 32 slots…but that could make for a really long night…shooting for 20 to 25…

The Mid Valley Draft is where individuals take on the role of General Manager for an NFL team and draft players out of the Mid-Valley and Southeast Divisions to fill the franchises specific needs…

A winner is declared and allowed to pillage the surrounding countryside…

Draft will be held the Tuesday after the Super Bowl.

Contact Joe T. and become part of this unique experience…