Royals coming back to earth?

After a hot start under new manager Buddy Bell, the Royals have now been swept during their last two series, one with the league leading White Sox and another with the worst team in the league, the Rockies. It will be interesting to see if the Royals can snap out of this quickly or if they are just going back to their old selves.

Are the Winslow's without a clue as of late?

I remember Kellen Winslow when he played tight end with the Chargers as perhaps the best receiving tight end ever to play the game. He was huge for that time frame, had downfield speed, was a good blocker and he played a huge role in what I thought was maybe the best football game ever played (Miami vs. the Chargers in an OT playoff thriller).

Well now its his sons turn but he is not off to a good start. Last year, in his rookie year, he got hurt and missed most of the year. Now that was not his fault, he actually was injured playing on special teams so he could not have helped that. But then in the offseason, he gets seriously hurt doing stunts on a brand new motorcycle that he apparently did not really know how to ride yet and now he will miss all of his second season in the NFL. The guy has all the tools to maybe be better than his dad if he ever gets it together.

I lost some respect for his Dad when he decides to criticize the media for the coverage of his sons injury. Lets think this through Kellen, your son, after receving a huge contract and contributing virtually nothing his rookie year due to injury. Then he goes out in the offseason, with a new coach taking over the team, and blows out his knee doing stunts on a motorcycle that he just bought and admittedly did not even know how to ride, let alone know how to safely to stunts. And you criticize the media? Hate to say it Kellen Sr., I think you missed the point. Your son let the team, his teammates, and the fans down by getting hurt doing something reckless and stupid.

It will be interesting to see if the Browns try to reclaim some of his signing bonus due to the injury. I certainly think they should.

Here is a link to a story about this from AP via Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050604/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_browns_winslow;_ylt=AoXHvB1ueSNDzYxRSweZKnQLMxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Remember that can't miss QB- Marinovich?

I remember that when former USC QB Todd Marinovich was in college he was touted as the next great pro quaterback. Much was made about the fact that he was basically "bred" to one day be an NFL quaterback. He was a good athlete, but never panned out at QB. He didn't finish school as I recall, went to the Raiders and was a total flop. Since then his off field success is right up there with another great college QB that never made it, Art Schlicter. Now Marinovich has been ordered by a judge to spend the next six months in a drug treatment program.

Good ol Todd has been arrested numerous times for various drug offenses, looks like raising him to be a QB did not quite work out.

Here is the article if you want to check it out from Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050604/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_marinovich_jailed;_ylt=ApKnycDdWoctIsyw1NvW83gLMxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

June 1st has come and gone, so its salary cap casualty time

Now that June 1st has come and gone, teams will start cutting some of their highly payed and often under performing players to make some salary cap room. Some of them may well be resigned at a lower salary, although some may test the free agent waters first before they resign with their old teams.

So names so far, Johnnie Morton of the Chiefts, Chad Morton of the Skins (they paid a ton of money to get him from the Jets and he really has not done much for them) are two bigger ones so far, with probably more to come. So stay tuned..........