NFL's cartoon coverage
THE NFL IS TEAMING with Nickelodeon on a series of short cartoons that will air during the season. "Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core" will be televised on Nickelodeon's Nicktoons channel and feature coaches and players from all 32 teams with several of them doing voice-overs as themselves.
THE NFL IS TEAMING with Nickelodeon on a series of short cartoons that will air during the season.
"Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core" will be televised on Nickelodeon's Nicktoons channel and feature coaches and players from all 32 teams with several of them doing voice-overs as themselves.
We can see it now: A roly-poly animated figure dressed entirely in black who looks up from a podium and, in a raspy voice, says, "Times yours."
Actually, we don't know if Andy Reid will be involved, but Giants quarterback Eli Manning and Saints coach Sean Payton already have signed on.
The cartoons will be 2 to 5 minutes in length and center around a 10-year-old superhero who has the skills of an NFL player. Each week, he will have to protect supernatural objects hidden in the league's stadiums.
If the Linc is ever featured, they can hide the object in the upper deck where all of the Vet's old 700-levelers hang out.
No villain would dare venture up there.
Japan's heavyweight scandal
Say it ain't so, Hideo.
According to the Associated Press, the Japan Sumo Association may suspend or expel 14 wrestlers and 13 coaches allegedly involved with gambling on baseball games.
Sumo scandals hit fans in Japan hard because wrestlers are expected to live by higher standards than the rest of the population.
In other words, fans there expect their professional athletes to act as role models.
Imagine that.
A striking day in baseball history
Twenty years ago today, the Oakland A's Dave Stewart and the Los Angeles Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela pitched no-hitters on the same day.
It was the first, and only, time that no-hitters have been thrown on the same day in both the American and National Leagues.
The A's defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-0. The Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0.
- Tom Mahon
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